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Ningaloo – Exmouth

O's Wall

Deep wall with soft coral shelf and pelagics.

Boat (day trip)Up to 27 m
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Esperance & Recherche Archipelago

Observatory Point (Esperance)

Spectacular lookout over the Recherche; calm-day snorkelling from the beach below.

ShoreUp to 8 m
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Lord Howe Island

Octopus Garden

Rocky gutters with the endemic island longfin.

Boat (day trip)Depth not recorded
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Lord Howe Island

Old Gulch

A rocky north-coast cove on the walk from North Bay, snorkelled on flat days.

ShoreDepth not recorded
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Narooma & Montague Island

Old Wharf (Montague Island)

Shallow, calm dive among the remains of the 1880s lighthouse jetty.

Boat (day trip)Up to 8 m
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Fleurieu Peninsula & Victor Harbor

Oliver's Reef

Kelp-covered small reefs off the Encounter Bay coast with occasional leafy seadragons.

Shore or BoatUp to 20 m
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Port Phillip Heads

Olympic Wall

A short 12–18 m wall inside the bay off Queenscliff – one of the only Heads walls fully within Open Water limits, rarely dived…

BoatUp to 18 m
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Norfolk Island

One Ton

Scattered bommies on clean sand to 30 m – a deep shore dive with unpredictable currents.

ShoreUp to 30 m
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Mount Gambier Sinkholes & Caves

One Tree

A deep farm sinkhole where the water clears below 20 m and an old harvester rests on the bottom.

ShoreDepth not recorded
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Rottnest Island

Opera House

A sloping reef with a maze of caves and cavern lighting to 31 m, with reports of grey nurse sharks.

Boat (day trip)Up to 31 m
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Kangaroo Island

Osmanli Wreck (D'Estrees Bay)

Large iron sections of an 1853 steamer on a shallow reef – an early steamship wreck whose 83 people all survived.

Shore or BoatUp to 5 m
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Mission Beach & Cassowary Coast

Otter Reef

Rarely dived outer reefs off Hinchinbrook for self-sufficient boat divers.

Boat (day trip)Up to 22 m
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Tasmania North-East

Outer Doughboy (St Helens Rocks)

A sheer granite wall on the outer St Helens Rocks with healthy fish and invertebrate life.

Boat (day trip)Up to 25 m
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Sydney Northern Beaches

Outer Flagstaff (North Head)

Shallow North Head reef with scattered wreck fragments and, each autumn, a cast of tropical vagrants among the kelp.

BoatUp to 20 m
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Adelaide Metro

Outer Harbor Breakwater & Wharf

A sheltered breakwater dive with soft corals and sponges, useful when the rest of the metro coast is blown out.

Shore or BoatUp to 10 m
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Bundaberg & Agnes Water

Outer Rock (Bustard Head)

A tide-swept offshore rock off Bustard Head in 20-30 m where bronze whalers and tiger sharks hunt – usually paired with the…

BoatUp to 30 m
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Rottnest Island

Outer Transit Caves

Shallow limestone swim-throughs and overhangs with often excellent visibility, minutes from the Thomson Bay wrecks.

Boat (day trip)Up to 10 m
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Central Coast

PJ Cove (Entrance Bommies)

A shallow, fish-filled cove on The Entrance bommies, likely named for its Port Jackson sharks.

BoatUp to 18 m
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Tasmania East Coast

Painted Cliffs (Maria Island)

A gentle snorkel beneath Maria Island's iron-stained sandstone cliffs, inside the marine reserve.

Shore or BoatUp to 8 m
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Sydney Northern Beaches

Palm Beach (ocean side – rock pool and Kiddies Corner)

Kelp-and-boulder reef under Little Head beside the Palm Beach ocean pool – a sheltered corner of Sydney's northernmost surf beach.

ShoreUp to 16 m
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Sydney Northern Beaches

Palm Beach Baths / Barrenjoey Pittwater side

Seagrass, seahorses and stingarees on the sheltered Pittwater shore under Barrenjoey – the estuary's easiest entry.

ShoreUp to 8 m
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Perth

Palm Beach Jetty (Rockingham)

A sheltered, easily reached jetty on the Rockingham foreshore with depth close to shore; best combined with the nearby Wreck…

ShoreUp to 15 m
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Merimbula

Pambula River Mouth

Tidal drift through an estuary entrance on the flood tide.

ShoreUp to 6 m
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Broome & Kimberley

Pannikin Bay Airstrip (Lake Argyle)

Drowned dam-era airport buildings close to the resort ramp.

BoatUp to 15 m
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