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675 dive sites matching “turtle”Across Australia
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Coffs Harbour & Solitary Islands

North West Solitary Island

The best hard-coral gardens in the Solitary Islands Marine Park with regular summer manta ray sightings, in a quieter,…

Boat (day trip)Up to 18 m
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Cairns

Nudey Beach (Fitzroy Island)

A secluded coral-rubble beach with fringing reef around the headland, reached by a rainforest walk.

ShoreUp to 10 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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Lord Howe Island

Old Settlement Beach

Snorkel with grazing green turtles in shallow water a few metres from the sand.

ShoreUp to 4 m
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Capricorn Coast & Keppel Islands

Olive Point (Middle Island)

Shallow coral gardens where curious olive sea snakes are almost guaranteed.

Boat (day trip)Up to 8 m
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Capricorn Coast & Keppel Islands

One Bum Beach (Barren Island)

An easy, sheltered fringing reef on Barren Island – long, shallow bottom times in clearer outer-bay water.

Boat (day trip)Up to 9 m
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Ningaloo – Exmouth

Osprey Bay

Calm bay with resident turtles.

ShoreUp to 5 m
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Capricorn Coast & Keppel Islands

Outer Rock (Keppels)

An isolated outer rock with gutters, coral gardens, Maori wrasse and winter humpbacks.

Boat (day trip)Up to 18 m
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Ningaloo – Coral Bay

Paradise Beach Drift

A 1.8 km beginner drift ending back in Bill's Bay.

ShoreUp to 4 m
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Cairns

Paradise Reef (Breaking Patches)

A small green-zone reef, exclusive to one operator, where coral trout and red emperor have rebounded.

Boat (day trip)Up to 18 m
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Pilbara & Dampier

Pebbles Beach (King Bay)

Epaulette sharks among shallow rocks on the Burrup.

ShoreUp to 6 m
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Brisbane & Moreton Bay

Peel Island – Horseshoe Bay

Shallow fringing reefs and the beached 1883 bucket dredge Platypus at a historic island anchorage.

BoatUp to 4 m
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Cairns

Pirates Cove (Hastings Reef)

A sheltered cove with unusual tongue-like coral formations at 14-18 m.

Boat (day trip)Up to 18 m
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Ningaloo – Coral Bay

Point Maud Manta Cleaning Station

Coral Bay's manta cleaning area, with WA's largest resident manta population.

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

Polmaise Bommies

Overhangs and swim-throughs in 16-20 m on a remote Capricorn reef, paired with the shallow Tambaroora wreck nearby.

Boat (multi-day/liveaboard)Up to 20 m
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Cairns

Pretty Patches

An untouched patch reef open to only two operators, with tightly grouped bommies and common turtles.

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

Prison Gardens

Plate corals, curious schools of big-eye trevally and coral-monitoring buoys on the sheltered eastern side of the atoll.

Boat (day trip)Up to 35 m
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Cocos (Keeling) Islands

Prison Island

A tiny historic cay in the eastern lagoon surrounded by shallow nursery reefs full of juvenile fish.

Boat (day trip)Up to 5 m
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Cocos (Keeling) Islands

Pulu Maraya

Walk across the reef flat from Scout Park and drift around a palm-covered islet with clams, turtles, octopus and baby blacktips.

ShoreUp to 5 m
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Far Northern Reef & Torres Strait

Raine Island

The world's largest green turtle rookery – dozens of turtles per dive and a chance of tiger sharks on pristine outer reef.

Boat (multi-day/liveaboard)Depth not recorded
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Ningaloo – Exmouth

Ranger's Bommies

Healthy Porites bommies with stingrays wedged underneath and leopard sharks on the sand.

BoatUp to 8 m
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Christmas Island

Resort Lagoon / Waterfall Bay

Scenic ledges, boulders and a drop-off on the east coast – a wet-season refuge when the north coast is blown out.

BoatUp to 20 m
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Coral Sea

Rock Arch (Flinders Reef)

An arch, caves and a daylit cavern under a sheer south-west wall, with a ledge of big gorgonians at 40 m.

Boat (multi-day/liveaboard)Up to 40 m