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Boat (day trip)Up to 10 m

Bruny Island & D'Entrecasteaux Channel

Partridge Island

Sheltered island dive with a tall giant kelp forest on the channel side (condition variable).

Boat (day trip)Up to 15 m

Capricorn Coast & Keppel Islands

Passage Rocks (Great Keppel Island)

A tidal channel site with the Keppels' greatest hard coral diversity.

Perth

Paul's Point (Mindarie)

An offshore Mindarie reef with a north–south reef with ledges and caverns on its sheltered eastern side at 15–20 m, rarely dived…

BoatUp to 20 m

Albany & Great Southern

Peaceful Bay (Walpole)

A rare sheltered bay on the wild Walpole coast, good for easy snorkelling and shore diving.

Shore or BoatUp to 8 m

Boat (multi-day/liveaboard)Up to 30 m

Eyre Peninsula

Pearson Island

Granite blocks dropping beyond 30 m in exceptionally clear water at one of SA's most remote islands, with harlequin fish,…

NSW

Batemans Bay

Pebbly Beach (Murramarang)

Easy snorkelling in Murramarang National Park, with kangaroos on the beach.

ShoreUp to 10 m

Yorke Peninsula

Penguin Point (Marion Bay)

Shallow limestone blocks and small gorgonian-filled caverns in 6 m – an easy local site near Marion Bay.

Shore or BoatUp to 6 m

Boat (multi-day/liveaboard)Depth not recorded

Darwin Offshore & Artificial Reefs

Peron Islands

Remote Timor Sea islands visited by Darwin fishing liveaboards, with bluewater pelagics around the island reefs.

Fleurieu Peninsula & Victor Harbor

Petrel Cove

A dramatic granite cove on the exposed side of the Bluff – a flat-day exploratory site beside Victor Harbor's best-known dive.

ShoreUp to 8 m

VIC

Phillip Island & Western Port

Phelan Bluff

Large basalt blocks and kelp-filled gullies beneath the eroded cliffs of Phelan Bluff on Phillip Island's closed southern shore;…

BoatUp to 12 m

Boat (day trip)Depth not recorded

Port Douglas

Phil's Lagoon (Tongue Reef Sister reefs)

Near-enclosed coral lagoon with enormous giant clams, plus a drop-off outside patrolled by grey reef sharks.

Tasmania East Coast

Picnic Island (Coles Bay)

A sheltered sandstone island reef with surprisingly abundant fish - the fallback in north-easterly weather.

Boat (day trip)Up to 6 m

Tasmania North-East

Picnic Rocks (Deep Creek)

A 500 m maze of granite bommies, overhangs and caves beside the Deep Creek campground.

Shore or BoatUp to 12 m

Hobart & Derwent

Pigeon Holes (South Arm)

Shallow snorkel reef beneath a honeycombed sandstone bluff, with rays and flathead.

Boat (day trip)Up to 3 m

Jetty/Pier

Yorke Peninsula

Pine Point Jetty

A shallow, calm high-tide snorkel over seagrass flats full of blue swimmer crabs – not a scuba destination.

ShoreUp to 3 m

Boat (day trip)Up to 12 m

Cairns

Pinnacle Reef (Green Island)

An exclusive small-boat mooring near Green Island with a quiet coral garden and frequent turtles.

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Christmas Island

Pirate Cove

Sheltered pocket of submerged rock formations and rock pools at the southern end of Flying Fish Cove – a family-friendly snorkel.

ShoreUp to 15 m

Boat (multi-day/liveaboard)Depth not recorded

Far Northern Reef & Torres Strait

Pirate's Cove (Far Northern GBR)

Soft-coral walls on a rarely visited far-northern reef.

Boat (day trip)Depth not recorded

Port Douglas

Plato (Opal Reef)

Large coral outcrops in very clear, current-swept water.

Boat (multi-day/liveaboard)Depth not recorded

Drift

Rowley Shoals

Plectropoma Pass

Rowley Shoals pass named after the coral trout genus Plectropoma

Sunshine Coast

Point Arkwright

A northern Sunshine Coast headland snorkel for flat days, listed by Scuba World.

ShoreUp to 8 m

Eyre Peninsula

Point Avoid – Golden Island Reef

A sheltered limestone reef and blue groper nursery in the lee of Golden Island, Coffin Bay National Park – diveable only on rare…

ShoreUp to 5 m

Boat (day trip)Depth not recorded

Darwin Offshore & Artificial Reefs

Point Blaze Reefs

A remote reef area at the southern end of Fog Bay where tropical bluewater pelagics are regularly seen.

Boat (day trip)Up to 15 m

Tasmania East Coast

Point Geographe (Schouten Island)

Shallow granite mazes and swim-throughs with huge banded morwong and often excellent visibility.