Days are spent simply soaking up the sun by the swimming pool or on the pristine, white beaches or choose from our many adventure activities on offer on the island. Diving, snorkelling, fly fishing, surf casting, sport fishing, canoeing, island exploration, swimming, historical tours, dhow sailing trips and bird watching are all available on the island.

The Quilalea island has its own marine pavilion, which is a fully equipped fishing and PADI dive centre. Sport fishing and deep-sea angling are offered outside the sanctuary where game fish are plentiful.

Marine life on the Quilalea Island is protected by the Quilalea Marine Sanctuary, and both the Archipelago and the St Lazarus Bank have yet to be discovered by big game fishermen, hence an incredible variety of species of fish abound. A wide variety of gamefish species can be taken from the complex of habitats formed by the Quirimba Archipelago itself, while the Saint Lazarus Bank due east of Quilalea is a hotspot for tuna and billfish.

 

Quilalea is noted for the size of its reef fish, with parrotfish, angelfish, cave bass, morays, and others all reaching exceptional sizes. Long nosed hawkfish are found associated with the gorgonians. A wide variety of game and pelagic fish also visit the sanctuary. Resident schools of kingfish of the three species (giant, yellow, and indigo) accompany most canyon dives as well as snorkelers along the beach.

Dugongs are present but shy; it is easier to find their grazing marks than the animals themselves. A slow dive through the seagrass beds yields brightly coloured nudibranches, up to 195 species of fish, and swimming scallops that will come up and dance in midwater.

Turtles range widely throughout the sanctuary, with green turtles and perhaps Olive Ridleys nesting on the islands. Humpback whales visit the sanctuary from June to December every year, coming inshore to feed and shelter their calves. Dolphins include spinner, common, and bottlenose, with humpback dolphins appearing occasionally inside the sanctuary but common in the mangrove channels of Ibo Island just to the north.
Blacktip and whitetip sharks, blue spotted stingray, and electric ray are common. The Zambezi shark, the hammerhead shark, the tiger shark, and the manta ray have also been sighted.