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Orpheus Island Lodge

Orpheus Island

About this operator

Luxury island resort (Morris Escapes) offering diving to guests, not a dive shop.

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orpheus.com.au

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Trips are subject to current operator schedules and conditions.

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Townsville & Magnetic Island

Danger Marks (Orpheus–Pelorus Channel)

Shallow gutters with symmetrical walls and colourful low corals, protected in the Orpheus Marine National Park zone.

BoatUp to 10 m
Details need confirmation
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Townsville & Magnetic Island

John Brewer Reef – Ocean Sentinels & Coral Gardens

Eight 2.2 m Ocean Sentinels sculptures of reef scientists and custodians in 5 m of water, plus a large sheltered lagoon with…

Boat (day trip)Up to 18 m
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Townsville & Magnetic Island

Kelso Reef

Shallow coral gardens and drop-offs on a quiet, rarely visited mid-shelf reef north of the Palm Islands.

Boat (day trip)Up to 21 m
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Townsville & Magnetic Island

Little Kelso Reef

Vertical north-eastern drop-off with gullies, caves, overhangs and swim-throughs, and a sheltered back for the boat.

Boat (day trip)Up to 18 m
Details need confirmation
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Townsville & Magnetic Island

MOUA Coral Greenhouse (John Brewer Reef)

Guinness-record 12 m, 58-tonne underwater artwork by Jason deCaires Taylor – a coral-colonised 'greenhouse' with sculpted reef…

Boat (day trip)Up to 18 m
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Townsville & Magnetic Island

Orpheus Island – Iris Point

Channel-facing wall at Orpheus's northern tip with Queensland grouper, grey reef and leopard sharks.

BoatUp to 15 m
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Townsville & Magnetic Island

Orpheus–Pelorus Channel (Ray's Lump & Western Edge)

Ray's Lump – two tennis-court-sized coral outcrops mid-channel, packed with fusiliers, trout and resident blacktips; brain-coral…

BoatUp to 16 m
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Townsville & Magnetic Island

Pelorus Island – Front Reef

Independent shore diving from a camping beach on an uninhabited reef island, with staghorn gardens, juvenile mantas and winter…

Shore or BoatUp to 10 m
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Townsville & Magnetic Island

Pelorus Island – House Mooring

Shallow reef wall with a giant clam colony off a sandy beach on Pelorus's south-western tip.

BoatUp to 10 m
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Townsville & Magnetic Island

Pelorus Island – Northern Point

Current-fed point with detached rocks, bommies, swim-throughs and barramundi cod – the best, and hardest, dive on Pelorus.

Shore or BoatUp to 15 m
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Townsville & Magnetic Island

Pelorus Island – Southern Wall

Shallow wall with sea fans, barrel sponges, a distinctive corner bommie and a two-metre black coral tree.

Shore or BoatUp to 16 m
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Townsville & Magnetic Island

Pioneer Bay Giant Clam Gardens (Orpheus Island)

Impressive giant clam patches along a pretty reef wall beside the JCU research station.

Shore or BoatUp to 6 m
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