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675 dive sites matching “turtle”Across Australia
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Heron Island & Capricorn Group

Coral Gardens (Heron Island)

A gentle, coral-carpeted slope on the Wistari Channel wall – Heron's pick for divers who just love coral.

Boat (day trip)Up to 15 m
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Heron Island & Capricorn Group

Coral Grotto (Heron Island)

Zig-zag through coral gutters on a wall where turtles rest, feed and swim past on almost every dive.

Boat (day trip)Up to 18 m
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Cocos (Keeling) Islands

Cossies Beach

Calm, shallow lagoon snorkelling off one of Australia's most celebrated beaches, right beside The Rip.

ShoreUp to 4 m
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Mackay

Credlin Reef

Mackay's best outer reef – walls, canyons and plateaus with barracuda schools, sharks and turtles in 15–25 m visibility.

Boat (multi-day/liveaboard)Up to 30 m
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Townsville & Magnetic Island

Davies Reef

Excellent western wall with soft corals and gorgonians, detached pinnacles near the AIMS weather station and usually clear water.

Boat (day trip)Up to 25 m
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Pilbara & Dampier

Delambre Island

Branching coral gardens on a remote turtle island.

Boat (day trip)Up to 14 m
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Norfolk Island

Duncombe Bay

Quiet cliff-ringed bay with a sandy slope, a coral wall, boulders and swim-through arches.

Shore or BoatUp to 20 m
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Mission Beach & Cassowary Coast

Dunk Island

An easy, scenic snorkel from national-park beaches 4 km off Mission Beach, with turtles and fringing coral.

Shore or BoatUp to 10 m
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Cairns

East Meets West (Thetford Reef)

A wall that dissolves into small bommies, sheltered in summer northerlies.

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

Eddy Reef

Eddy currents feed dense coral and bring Napoleon wrasse, eagle rays and barracuda to terraced walls and swim-throughs.

Boat (day trip)Up to 25 m
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Capricorn Coast & Keppel Islands

Egg Rock

The Keppels' signature advanced dive: walls, crevices and swim-throughs to 30 m inside a long-standing green zone, so the fish…

Boat (day trip)Up to 30 m
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Lord Howe Island

Elizabeth Reef

One of the world's southernmost coral reefs – huge numbers of Galapagos sharks and black cod in a rarely visited marine national…

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Mission Beach & Cassowary Coast

Ellison Reef

A calm, shallow green-zone coral garden with abundant turtles – ideal for first-time reef divers and families.

Boat (day trip)Up to 18 m
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Lady Elliot Island

Encounters (Lady Elliot Island)

A current-swept southern reef edge beyond the airstrip where mantas come to feed.

Boat (day trip)Up to 20 m
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Far Northern Reef & Torres Strait

Endeavour Reef

The reef where Cook's Endeavour ran aground in 1770 – a remote, historic mid-shelf reef off Cooktown.

Boat (day trip)Up to 20 m
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Pilbara & Dampier

Enderby Island

Coral-dominated fringing reefs with gorgonians on the deeper edge.

Boat (day trip)Up to 17 m
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Christmas Island

Ethel Beach

A colourful sloping reef off one of Australia's best beaches – the island's wet-season shore dive and a red crab spawning site.

Shore or BoatUp to 14 m
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Lord Howe Island

Favourite wreck (North Bay)

Engine, refrigeration piping and steel boxes of a 1965 tuna boat, overgrown with coral in shallow water.

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Port Stephens

Fingal Island – The Pinnacle & sponge gardens

A pinnacle and drop-off site with colourful sponge gardens, resident grouper and turtles, plus seasonal kingfish and cobia.

BoatUp to 35 m
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Cairns

Fish Bowl (Moore Reef)

Four bommies on a shallow reef edge – reef fish in the shallows and whitetip sharks at 18 m.

Boat (day trip)Up to 25 m
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South West Rocks

Fish Rock – Fish Bommies

A boulder-strewn deep gutter at Fish Rock with resident wobbegongs and a strong chance of juvenile and adult grey nurse sharks…

BoatUp to 32 m
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South West Rocks

Fish Rock – Land of Giants

A rare, conditions-dependent long circuit past giant groper, dense bannerfish schools and multiple turtle species along the…

BoatUp to 40 m
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Cairns

Fitzroy Island

The only easy walk-in reef shore dive near Cairns, beside a resort, dive shop and turtle rehabilitation centre.

ShoreUp to 12 m
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Lady Musgrave & Bunker Group

Fitzroy Reef Lagoon

The Bunker Group's biggest reef: a navigable 6-10 m lagoon with a dozen sites, seahorses and more than a thousand resident…

Boat (multi-day/liveaboard)Up to 15 m