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675 dive sites matching “turtle”Across Australia
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Cairns

The Edge (Milln Reef)

A life-draped wall with an advanced drift along a line of deep bommies with barracuda and sharks.

Boat (day trip)Up to 25 m
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Ningaloo – Coral Bay

The Elbow

A manta cleaning station at a bend in the outer reef.

Boat (day trip)Up to 18 m
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Ningaloo – Exmouth

The Gap (Muiron Islands)

A fast tidal drift through the channel between North and South Muiron.

Boat (day trip)Up to 20 m
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Darwin Harbour

The Pinnacle

A ridge rising from 15 m to 5 m, with big fish at the base and clouds of small fish on the top.

Boat (day trip)Up to 15 m
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Sunshine Coast

The Pinnacles (Gneerings)

Three upright pinnacles in about 10 m, busy with batfish, trevally, barracuda and wobbegongs.

BoatUp to 14 m
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Port Douglas

The Point (Agincourt Reef 3)

Shelf-edge point with 30 m+ visibility, a stepped wall dropping into the abyss, and sharks and pelagics working the current.

Boat (day trip)Up to 30 m
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Christmas Island

The Sandpatch

A dense garden eel colony and easy shallow reef right off the beach; the island's go-to training and night dive.

ShoreUp to 18 m
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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie

The Temple (Moon Island)

A huge sea cave with an 'altar' boulder where grey nurse sharks shelter through the winter - Swansea's premier dive.

BoatUp to 20 m
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Coral Sea

The Zoo (Bougainville Reef)

Bougainville's signature site, crowded with sharks, turtles and schooling reef fish in clear oceanic water.

Boat (multi-day/liveaboard)Up to 40 m
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Hervey Bay & K'gari

Three Ships (Roy Rufus Artificial Reef)

Three historic hulls (Otter, Pelican, Lass O'Gowrie) linked by picket lines at 14-17 m – see all three in one dive.

BoatUp to 17 m
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Far Northern Reef & Torres Strait

Tijou Reef

Remote shelf-edge walls with large fans, soft corals and pelagics.

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

Tina's Arm (Fairey Reef)

Coral wall with finger-like bommies, gorgonian fans and huge Porites in 15–30 m visibility.

Boat (day trip)Up to 30 m
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Cocos (Keeling) Islands

Trannies Beach

A calm, sheltered beach snorkel in a no-take National Park zone – ideal for children and beginners.

ShoreUp to 4 m
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Lady Elliot Island

Tubes (Lady Elliot Island)

Tube-like channels, caves and ledges on the eastern wall, dived as part of the Blowhole-to-Hiro's Cave drift.

Boat (day trip)Up to 25 m
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Lady Musgrave & Bunker Group

Turtle Alley (Lady Musgrave Lagoon)

A sheltered lagoon wall of turtle cleaning stations, ideal for beginners and night dives.

Boat (day trip)Up to 10 m
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Norfolk Island

Turtle Arch

Turtle-shaped pinnacle near Cooks Arch covered in coral and marine growth, to 21 m.

Boat (day trip)Up to 21 m
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Geraldton & Abrolhos Islands

Turtle Bay (East Wallabi Island)

Pristine shallow coral a short swim from the beach – the Abrolhos's most accessible snorkel via fly-in day tours.

Boat (multi-day/liveaboard)Up to 5 m
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Cairns

Turtle Bommie (Hastings Reef)

A bommie cluster with resident turtles and a deep northern drop with sea fans and whips.

Boat (day trip)Up to 25 m
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Lady Musgrave & Bunker Group

Turtle Bommie (Lady Musgrave Lagoon)

A massive finger-coral bommie in the calm lagoon where resident turtles queue for cleaning.

Boat (day trip)Up to 10 m
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Coral Sea

Turtle Cave (Holmes Reef)

Shallow bommies on sand at the Holmes overnight mooring – excellent visibility by day and a superb night dive.

Boat (multi-day/liveaboard)Up to 26 m
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North Stradbroke Island

Turtle Caves (Flat Rock)

Turtles resting in caves and under ledges at Flat Rock, with bull rays and mobulas cruising past.

Boat (day trip)Up to 30 m
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Brisbane & Moreton Bay

Turtle Cleaning Station (Flinders Reef)

Turtles queueing at a coral bommie in about 5 m to be cleaned by surgeonfish and wrasse – close-range turtle behaviour in…

Boat (day trip)Up to 14 m
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Cairns

Tusa Canyons (Thetford Reef)

Canyon-like sand channels between tall coral bommies – one of Thetford's two signature sites.

Boat (day trip)Up to 25 m
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Cocos (Keeling) Islands

Two Ridges

Two parallel coral ridges shaped like an upturned catamaran hull; a regular spot for manta rays and, historically, the resident…

Boat (day trip)Up to 25 m