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Turquoise Coast

Leeman & Fishermans Islands

Sheltered lagoon snorkelling and offshore islands with a large Australian sea lion colony.

Shore or BoatUp to 12 m

Eden & Green Cape

Lennards Island

Remote, 4WD-access island with sheltered shallow boulders and deeper sponge gardens.

Shore or BoatUp to 25 m

Eyre Peninsula

Lewis Island

A seal colony dive with colourful bommies off the south-west tip, in the tidal channels of Thorny Passage.

BoatUp to 15 m

QLD

Wreck

Bundaberg & Agnes Water

Light Ships (Cochrane Artificial Reef)

Two compact, round-hulled light ships in 18 m – easy to circle and full of fish.

BoatUp to 18 m

Boat (day trip)Up to 18 m

Geraldton & Abrolhos Islands

Lighthouse Passage & Hell's Gates (Geraldton)

Offshore reefs where coral trout and turtles meet dhufish, blue devils and pineapple fish.

Central Coast

Lion Island (Broken Bay)

An iconic Broken Bay island with estuarine reef open to divers and snorkellers and a protected little penguin colony.

BoatUp to 18 m

Jervis Bay

Little Hyams Beach

Quiet kelp-garden snorkel with friendly blue groper and resting Port Jackson sharks.

ShoreDepth not recorded

Boat (day trip)Up to 30 m

Esperance & Recherche Archipelago

Long Island (Recherche)

Caverns, swim-throughs and ridge-and-gutter reef in 20-30 m with big blue groper and queen snapper.

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

Geraldton & Abrolhos Islands

Long Island (Wallabi Group)

Tropical staghorn with temperate fish at the island where the Batavia mutineers were executed.

Sydney Northern Beaches

Long Reef Aquatic Reserve (shore)

Tame blue groper and kelp gutters inside NSW's oldest aquatic reserve, from a sandy beach beneath the Long Reef headland.

ShoreUp to 12 m

Jetty/Pier

Whyalla & Upper Spencer Gulf

Louth Bay Jetty

An easy 4 m jetty and foreshore reef near Port Lincoln, with a deeper boulder reef to 15 m at the south end of the bay.

ShoreUp to 4 m

Boat (day trip)Up to 30 m

Esperance & Recherche Archipelago

Magistrates Rock

Rarely dived, swell-sculpted rock with undercut caverns and very clear water on calm days.

Shore or BoatDepth not recorded

Jetty/Pier

Darwin Harbour

Mandorah Jetty

Encrusted ferry-jetty pylons and bottom rubbish with barramundi, groper and batfish - Darwin's best jetty dive.

Sydney Northern Beaches

Manly Bommie

The sponge-walled outer bommie of Cabbage Tree Bay – bigger fish and real structure a short boat hop or a long swim from Shelly…

Shore or BoatUp to 14 m

Eden & Green Cape

Mewstone (Eden)

Rock with colourful sponge gardens and better fish on its eastern side.

BoatDepth not recorded

Bermagui & Tathra

Mimosa Rocks

Volcanic sea stacks in a national park, named after an 1863 shipwreck.

Shore or BoatUp to 18 m

Sydney Northern Beaches

Mona Vale Headland

Kelp beds to a sea-dragon sand line at 12 m off the Mona Vale headland, with the sheltered Basin as a fallback around the corner.

ShoreUp to 15 m

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

Geraldton & Abrolhos Islands

Morley Island Dive Trail

A gentle reef slope with finger-coral shallows and low walls – good for mixed snorkel/dive groups.

Mandurah & Peel

Murray Reefs

A lightly dived ribbon of kelp-covered limestone reef with overhangs, sea fans and three historic wrecks.

BoatUp to 8 m

Boat (day trip)Depth not recorded

Narooma & Montague Island

Neverfail Reef

Old site name near the seal colony at the northern end of Montague Island.

Jetty/Pier

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

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

QLD

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