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437 dive sites matching “groper”Across Australia
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Coffs Harbour & Solitary Islands

North Solitary Island – The Boulders

Massive boulder topography and a canyon-like channel between the island's two sections, with grey nurse sharks and giant groper —…

Boat (day trip)Up to 30 m
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Sydney Harbour

Obelisk Beach (Middle Head south)

A sheltered sand-and-seagrass beach dive that becomes Middle Head's sponge gardens 450 m east along the sand line.

ShoreUp to 12 m
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Batemans Bay

Occy Point (Tollgate Islands)

Octopus dens at the base of sheltered bommies – a reliable dive in most conditions.

BoatUp to 16 m
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Sunshine Coast

Outer Gneerings

Deeper, clearer and fishier than the inner reef: boulders and outcrops in 15-25 m with winter pelagics.

BoatUp to 25 m
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Geraldton & Abrolhos Islands

Pelsaert Island & Drop-off

A sanctuary drop-off with 20 m-plus visibility, crays, morays and baldchin groper.

Boat (multi-day/liveaboard)Up to 25 m
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Port Phillip Heads

Point Lonsdale Kelp Forest

Shallow kelp forest along Shark Gutter beneath Point Lonsdale lighthouse, dived from the rock platform at ebb slack – seadragons,…

ShoreUp to 5 m
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Norfolk Island

Policemans Helmet

Easy wall dive with overhangs beneath a helmet-shaped rock.

Boat (day trip)Up to 18 m
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Narooma & Montague Island

Potato Point

Exposed calm-day shore dive with kelp forest, bommies, morays and rays.

ShoreUp to 12 m
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Batemans Bay

Pretty Point

Easy, shallow shore dive and night dive near Malua Bay.

ShoreUp to 10 m
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Sydney Harbour

Quarantine Station / Quarantine Bay

Seagrass seahorses and old wharf piles inside the bay, sponge reef to 16 m around the point – a calm, historic dive behind North…

Shore or BoatUp to 16 m
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Fleurieu Peninsula & Victor Harbor

Rapid Head

A boat-only wall and reef in a sanctuary zone with leafy seadragons, crayfish and visits from a local seal colony.

Boat (day trip)Up to 12 m
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Esperance & Recherche Archipelago

Remark Island & Frederick Island

Sheltered granite with seals on Remark's north side, a 50 m sponge and black coral wall on its south, and Frederick Island's…

Boat (day trip)Up to 50 m
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Rainbow Beach

Round Rock & Nursery Reef

Ray central: 15+ rays on a typical dive around a compact rock monolith in 6-16 m, with a cave at its eastern end.

Boat (day trip)Up to 16 m
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Hervey Bay & K'gari

Roy Rufus Artificial Reef

Hervey Bay's signature dive: historic hulls, barges and car bodies scattered over about 3 km² off Big Woody Island, three ships…

BoatUp to 18 m
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Wollongong & Kiama

SS Cities Service Boston

Boilers and engine remains of a 146 m US tanker wrecked in 1943, with a dramatic rescue story commemorated on the headland.

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Sydney South & Botany Bay

SS Goolgwai wreck (Long Bay)

Last resting place of a Canadian-built WWI minesweeper that served as HMAS Goolgwai in WWII; a search dive through scattered iron…

Shore or BoatUp to 10 m
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Yorke Peninsula

SS Marion Wreck

An 1854 Glasgow-built steamer wrecked in 1862 that gave Marion Bay its name, lying in two broken sections below the Innes cliffs.

BoatUp to 12 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

SS Minmi wreck (Cape Banks)

The stern of a 75 m collier that broke her back on Cape Banks in fog in 1937, with wreckage scattered through Cruwee Cove.

Shore or BoatUp to 8 m
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Ulladulla

SS Northern Firth

Swim through a giant intact boiler from a 1932 steamer wrecked on Brush Island.

BoatUp to 26 m
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Yorke Peninsula

SS Pareora Wreck

Boiler, engine, anchor and windlass of a 1919 zinc-laden steamer that took 11 lives, lying in a reef gully on remote Althorpe…

Boat (day trip)Up to 15 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

SS Tekapo wreck (South Maroubra)

Shallow scattered remains of an 89 m passenger steamer lost in fog in 1899; its huge anchor is a monument at North Maroubra.

Shore or BoatUp to 7 m
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Albany & Great Southern

Salmon Holes (Torndirrup)

Dramatic granite and turquoise water in Torndirrup National Park – a flat-day snorkel only.

ShoreUp to 8 m
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Albany & Great Southern

Sandra's (Dillon Bay, Bremer Bay)

A plate-coral bommie from 18 to 8 m with a field of gorgonian fans, 400 m off Little Boat Harbour.

Boat (day trip)Up to 18 m
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Jervis Bay

Scottish Rocks

Booderee's top snorkelling spot – clear water and sea dragons among quirky rock mounds.

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