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Diving in Victoria
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WallPort Phillip Heads
12lb Reef
A short, overhang-riddled wall at 8–20 m on the edge of Lonsdale Bight named for a 12-pound crayfish – soft corals, caves and big…
WallPort Phillip Heads
16lb Reef
Overhangs and small drop-offs at 12–18 m at the ocean end of Lonsdale Wall, named for a legendary 16-pound crayfish and known for…
Jetty/PierMelbourne & Port Phillip Bay
Altona Pier
Free-parking western-suburbs training pier with a small artificial reef off its end; flat, easy and sheltered from northerlies.
Shore/Rock PlatformMelbourne & Port Phillip Bay
Banksia Point, Ricketts Point
Quietest entry in the sanctuary; very shallow close-in reef for snorkelling, children and relaxed night dives.
ReefGeelong & Bellarine
Barwon Bluff North
The sheltered river side of the Bluff, leading to a kelp-fringed bay between the reef pincers at Point Flinders with blue groper…
ReefGeelong & Bellarine
Barwon Bluff South
Sandstone pincer reef with kelp forests, small arches and sponge gardens on the ocean face of the Bluff; the best of the Barwon…
Shore/Rock PlatformGeelong & Bellarine
Barwon Heads Bluff
The Bellarine's main ocean shore dive: kelp forests, sandstone arches and sponge gardens around a marine-sanctuary headland at…
WreckPort Phillip Heads
Batman
A compact, easily navigated 1883 hopper barge and one-time Victorian Navy gunboat with a large upright boiler at the bow – the…
WreckPort Phillip Heads
Beverwijk 19
An upturned Dutch steam dredge with huge dredging cog wheels, boiler and propeller exposed; the last vessel scuttled in the…
Jetty/PierMelbourne & Port Phillip Bay
Black Rock Jetty, Half Moon Bay
Sheltered bayside jetty beside the Cerberus hulk; one of Melbourne's favourite spring night dives for bioluminescence.
Jetty/PierMornington Peninsula
Blairgowrie Pier
Victoria's premier pier dive: sponge-covered pylons, 100+ nudibranch species, seahorses, four octopus species and cuttlefish,…
ReefPort Phillip Heads
Boarfish Reef
Multi-site reef in Lonsdale Bight with caves, swim-throughs, a 4 m upright admiralty anchor in 10 m and a 400 m sponge garden…
DriftPort Phillip Heads
Boarfish Reef Drift
Float-line drift across the Boarfish Reef sponge gardens and outcrops off Queenscliff – no navigation, no kicking, several…
Shore/Rock PlatformPort Phillip Heads
Buckleys Cave
The shore entry to the outer Lonsdale Reef beneath William Buckley's cave – Shark Gutter, Mushroom Rock and five…
ReefMornington Peninsula
Cape Schanck West (Pulpit Rock)
Gullies, gorges and bommies around a basalt headland with The Arch swim-through and Shark Cave full of Port Jacksons; the most…
WallPort Phillip Heads
Captain Nitro Drop Off
Stepped walls dropping 5–10 m at a time to beyond 60 m, with house-sized fallen boulders at the foot of each step and both red…
Pinnacle/BommiePort Phillip Heads
Castle Rock
A turreted bommie in open water outside Point Lonsdale, 200 m round and 12–20 m deep, with undercuts full of blue devils and…
DriftPort Phillip Heads
Catch Bag Reef Drift
Flood-tide drift over kelp-covered sandstone reef between Lonsdale Wall and Queenscliff, named for a lost cray bag and known for…
Artificial ReefPort Phillip Heads
Chinamans Hat
Purpose-built seal haul-out beside the South Channel where Australian fur seals sleep, spar and come out to investigate…
WreckMelbourne & Port Phillip Bay
Clarence
An 1841 Hunter River-built schooner wrecked in 1850 and lying almost complete on her port side in 5 m off St Leonards – the…
Pinnacle/BommiePort Phillip Heads
Corsair Rock
The pinnacle that wrecked RMS Australia, the Eliza Ramsden and a dozen others: a kelp-topped rock 3.5 m under the surface at the…
Shore/Rock PlatformPort Phillip Heads
Cottage by the Sea Reef
Queenscliff's shore dive below the historic Cottage by the Sea: ledges and sponge reef to 10 m with seadragons, blue devils,…
Pinnacle/BommiePort Phillip Heads
Deep Pinnacles
Scattered bommies, valleys and small swim-throughs in 16–25 m on the outer Lonsdale reef line, glowing with yellow zoanthids –…
WallPort Phillip Heads
Devils Drop Off
A 12-to-30 m drop-off on the Nepean side with a long soft-coral overhang at 27 m and the most dependable blue devils at the…