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675 dive sites matching “turtle”Across Australia
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Whitsundays & Bowen

Southern Face (Bait Reef)

Gully-cut outer-reef face with clear water, excellent hard-coral shallows and winter mantas.

Boat (day trip)Up to 30 m
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Lady Musgrave & Bunker Group

Southern Ledges (Lady Musgrave)

Lady Musgrave's exposed southern drop-off, undercut by ledges and caves and hung with black coral and gorgonians.

Boat (day trip)Up to 26 m
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Cairns

Split Bommie (Hastings Reef)

Cleft bommies with a 12 m swim-through and a current line where sharks and pelagics patrol.

Boat (day trip)Up to 20 m
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Coffs Harbour & Solitary Islands

Split Solitary Island – Turtle Cove

One of the most reliable turtle encounter sites in the Solitary Islands Marine Park, in a sheltered, life-filled gutter.

Boat (day trip)Up to 18 m
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Cairns

Stepping Stones (Hastings Reef)

A line of coral bommies stepping out from the boat – three or four in one easy, sheltered dive.

Boat (day trip)Up to 18 m
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Ribbon Reefs & Lizard Island

Summer Bay

Colourful shallow Acropora gardens where cuttlefish lay their eggs.

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

Sunlover Pontoon Reef (Moore Reef)

An easy, well-run pontoon dive on a sheltered nursery reef, with intro, refresher and helmet options for non-divers.

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

Sunset Drift (Lady Elliot Island)

An effortless, well-timed drift over beautiful coral at the south-west tip, with feeding mantas in season.

Boat (day trip)Up to 18 m
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Heron Island & Capricorn Group

Sykes Reef

Heron's occasional special trip: a drop-off with deep walls, big gorgonians and clearer offshore water.

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

Sylph's Hole

Shore snorkel in a sanctuary zone at the northern end of the lagoon, with turtles and endemic anemonefish.

ShoreUp to 5 m
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Gold Coast

Tallebudgera Creek

A clear, flooding creek mouth beside Burleigh Heads where snorkellers meet rays, turtles and dolphins on the incoming tide.

ShoreUp to 10 m
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Ningaloo – Exmouth

Tantabiddi North Reef Break

An ocean gap in North Reef with outer-reef clarity close to Tantabiddi.

BoatUp to 15 m
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Ningaloo – Exmouth

Tantabiddi Sanctuary Zone (Staghorns & The Bombies)

Kayak moorings over staghorn thickets and coral heads right beside Tantabiddi ramp.

Shore or BoatUp to 3.5 m
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Mission Beach & Cassowary Coast

Taylor Reef

Towering green-zone bommies with swim-throughs, barracuda and seasonal manta rays.

Boat (day trip)Up to 22 m
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Ribbon Reefs & Lizard Island

Temple of Doom

A kidney-shaped bommie with hunting bluefin trevally and turtles resting under overhangs.

Boat (multi-day/liveaboard)Up to 24 m
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Lady Musgrave & Bunker Group

The Apartments (Lady Musgrave)

A drift past layered plate corals on an untouched outer wall, in visibility up to 35 m.

Boat (day trip)Up to 22 m
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Lady Musgrave & Bunker Group

The Canyons (Lady Musgrave)

A drift along an outer wall tiered with pristine plate corals, with sharks, turtles and sea snakes.

Boat (day trip)Up to 22 m
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Lady Musgrave & Bunker Group

The Caves (Lady Musgrave)

An outer wall riddled with overhangs, caves and crevices – the Lady Musgrave programme's photographers' favourite.

Boat (day trip)Up to 24 m
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Christmas Island

The Cemetery

A gentle, shallow drift over colourful coral a few metres from shore – an ideal first drift dive.

BoatUp to 14 m
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Whitsundays & Bowen

The Chimney & Cathedral (Bait Reef)

A trench and 20 m tunnel through the reef wall onto the outer slope, and a light-filled chamber reached by swim-through.

Boat (day trip)Up to 22 m
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Heron Island & Capricorn Group

The Cliffs (Wistari Reef)

A sheer wall dropping to 30 m on the ocean side of Wistari Reef, with giant gorgonians and pelagics – dived only a few times a…

Boat (day trip)Up to 30 m
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Ningaloo – Exmouth

The Coliseum

An amphitheatre-like hole in the reef with baitfish and predators.

Boat (day trip)Up to 17 m
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Norfolk Island

The Crack (Nepean Island)

Drift along a bay of gutters and caves over a carpet of hard coral, with goldribbon cod, black cod and green turtles.

Boat (day trip)Up to 18 m
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Cairns

The Drop (Milln Reef)

A steep drop-off with wind- and wave-carved coral formations, used when the wind is from the north.

Boat (day trip)Up to 25 m