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Diving in Queensland

Explore 594 listed dive sites and find the local knowledge to help plan your visit.

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Atherton Tablelands2 sitesBrisbane & Moreton Bay34 sitesBundaberg & Agnes Water20 sitesCairns82 sitesCapricorn Coast & Keppel Islands24 sitesFar Northern Reef & Torres Strait24 sitesGold Coast27 sitesHeron Island & Capricorn Group38 sitesHervey Bay & K'gari14 sitesLady Elliot Island27 sitesLady Musgrave & Bunker Group19 sitesMackay9 sitesMission Beach & Cassowary Coast10 sitesNorth Stradbroke Island14 sitesPort Douglas62 sitesRainbow Beach4 sitesRibbon Reefs & Lizard Island43 sitesSunshine Coast41 sitesSwain Reefs16 sitesTownsville & Magnetic Island42 sitesWhitsundays & Bowen42 sites

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Townsville & Magnetic Island

Alma Bay (Magnetic Island)

Easy beach entry to granite-boulder canyons, swim-throughs and coral gardens with 50+ nudibranch species, turtles and rays –…

ShoreUp to 10 m
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Lady Elliot Island

Anchor Bommie (Lady Elliot Island)

A soft-coral-covered admiralty anchor at 19 m beside a manta cleaning bommie rich in macro life.

Boat (day trip)Up to 19 m
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Bundaberg & Agnes Water

Barolin Rocks

Queensland's best-known shore dive: a sheltered, shallow soft-coral reef with prolific nudibranchs, turtles and sea snakes,…

ShoreUp to 10 m
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Port Douglas

Barracuda Bommie (Agincourt Reef 2)

Circling barracuda school over a coral pinnacle; excellent snorkelling on the shallow garden around it.

Boat (day trip)Up to 22 m
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Port Douglas

Bashful Bommie (Opal Reef)

Double-sided bommie with a sea-fan wall on a deep channel, a sheltered clam garden, and a very friendly Maori wrasse.

Boat (day trip)Up to 18 m
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Mission Beach & Cassowary Coast

Beaver Reef

Mission Beach's main outer reef: an uncrowded green-zone reef with coral gardens, turtles and a shark-patrolled southern wall.

Boat (day trip)Up to 22 m
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Cairns

Blue Lagoon (Thetford Reef)

A calm, shallow lagoon ringed by bommies, with giant clams and blacktip reef sharks – ideal for beginners and snorkellers.

Boat (day trip)Up to 18 m
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Whitsundays & Bowen

Blue Pearl Bay (Hayman Island)

Sheltered, easy fringing reef on Hayman Island with friendly fish, recovering coral and the Ngaro trail Maori Wrasse sculpture.

Boat (day trip)Up to 18 m
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Heron Island & Capricorn Group

Blue Pools (Heron Island)

Shallow gutters and a sheltered Olympic-pool-sized hollow with resting turtles, wobbegongs and patrolling whitetips.

Boat (day trip)Up to 16 m
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North Stradbroke Island

Boat Rock

An exposed spire off Queensland's easternmost point with colourful caverns and schools of big fish.

Boat (day trip)Up to 30 m
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Townsville & Magnetic Island

Bremner Point (Geoffrey Bay Headland)

Shallow granite wall with small caves, sea fans and more fish than the nearby Moltke, plus the site of the 1896 Lallah Rokh wreck.

ShoreUp to 8 m
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Bundaberg & Agnes Water

Burkitt's Reef

The easy-entry Bargara shore dive: walk off the beach onto a shallow soft-coral reef with wobbegongs, sea snakes and occasional…

ShoreUp to 9 m
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Port Douglas

Castle Rock (Agincourt Reef 1)

A 24 m exposed wall on one side and a sheltered coral garden on the other; one of the better Agincourt sites for sharks and big…

Boat (day trip)Up to 24 m
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Cairns

Cathedral (Thetford Reef)

Cathedral-like gaps and swim-throughs between tall bommies on bright sand, with an outer gorgonian bommie to 30 m.

Boat (day trip)Up to 30 m
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Cairns

Caves (Norman Reef)

A sheltered bay with rays and cuttlefish between two deep walls with devilfish in the ledges.

Boat (day trip)Up to 25 m
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Ribbon Reefs & Lizard Island

Challenger Bay

A famous night dive where trevally and red bass hunt in divers' torch beams; easy daytime dive over sand, bommies and recovering…

Boat (multi-day/liveaboard)Up to 30 m
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Cairns

City Hall (Moore Reef)

A pinnacle with ten-plus swim-throughs and a resident population of 18 turtles, guided from the Sunlover pontoon.

Boat (day trip)Up to 18 m
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Ribbon Reefs & Lizard Island

Clam Gardens

Around 14 giant clams up to 2 m long in bright, shallow coral gardens.

Boat (multi-day/liveaboard)Up to 18 m
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Ribbon Reefs & Lizard Island

Clam Gardens (Lizard Island)

Giant clams up to 2 m long in shallow water a short swim from the beach.

Shore or BoatUp to 6 m
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Cairns

Clipper & Super Cat (Norman Reef)

Swim-throughs, a beginner-friendly canyon and a small glass-bottom boat wreck on one Norman mooring.

Boat (day trip)Up to 22 m
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Ribbon Reefs & Lizard Island

Cod Hole

Diver-sized potato cod that approach to within centimetres; coral ridges, sand arena and deeper fans with pygmy seahorses.

Boat (multi-day/liveaboard)Up to 32 m
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Heron Island & Capricorn Group

Coral Canyons (Heron Island)

Shallow canyons cut into the reef edge, where bigfin reef squid hang in colour-changing stacks.

Boat (day trip)Up to 16 m
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Heron Island & Capricorn Group

Coral Cascades (Heron Island)

A 'macro dream world' of coral-covered bommies on sand, where rays queue at cleaning stations and fusiliers swirl overhead.

Boat (day trip)Up to 19 m
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Cairns

Coral Gardens (Flynn Reef)

A 30 m wall with swim-throughs and overhangs beside a shallow garden of staghorn and plate corals; a favourite liveaboard night…

Boat (day trip)Up to 30 m