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675 dive sites matching “turtle”Across Australia
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Port Douglas

Undine Reef

Shallow coral gardens and a sand cay you can step onto, 25 minutes off Cape Tribulation.

Boat (day trip)Depth not recorded
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Darwin Offshore & Artificial Reefs

Vernon Islands

Coral reefs rising steeply from fast tidal channels in Clarence Strait, with Spanish mackerel feeding along the edges – the best…

Boat (day trip)Up to 25 m
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Darwin Offshore & Artificial Reefs

Vernon Islands Blue Holes

Tidal blue holes that become sheltered, fish-filled coral pools at low tide – with a 'horizontal waterfall' as the water drains…

Boat (day trip)Depth not recorded
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Ribbon Reefs & Lizard Island

Watsons Bay (Lizard Island)

Walk off a national-park beach onto fringing reef and the Clam Gardens; best at high tide.

ShoreUp to 8 m
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Ningaloo – Exmouth

Whalebone

Overhangs and swim-throughs filled with glassfish.

Boat (day trip)Up to 20 m
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Cairns

White Rock (Fitzroy Island)

Fitzroy's deeper northern reef around a bird-covered rock, with turtles, rays and reef sharks.

ShoreUp to 14 m
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Cocos (Keeling) Islands

Winter Wall

Full hard and soft coral cover on the reef top and rose corals spreading down the wall; a reliable choice in the trade-wind…

Boat (day trip)Up to 25 m
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Pilbara & Dampier

Withnell Bay

An easy shore dive on the Burrup with turtles and rays.

ShoreUp to 6 m
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Cairns

Wonder Wall (Upolu Reef)

Coral walls and surface-reaching bommies on Upolu's outer edge, with reef sharks and turtles.

Boat (day trip)Up to 16 m
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Ribbon Reefs & Lizard Island

Wonderland

A big coral mound cut by ridges, channels and small caves, with leafy scorpionfish and cuttlefish.

Boat (multi-day/liveaboard)Up to 40 m
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Capricorn Coast & Keppel Islands

Wreck Beach (Great Keppel Island)

A quiet far-side bay with a 2 m-high brain coral thought to be around 420 years old.

Shore or BoatUp to 12 m
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Ningaloo – Exmouth

100s and 1000s

Clouds of small reef fish on a shallow, easy Lighthouse Bay mooring.

Boat (day trip)Up to 14 m
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Ribbon Reefs & Lizard Island

Acropolis (Ribbon Reefs)

A seldom-documented Ribbon Reef mooring from Spirit of Freedom's longer itineraries.

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Far Northern Reef & Torres Strait

Aladdin's Cave (Far Northern GBR)

Soft-coral walls and coral gardens, paired with the Stanley Island rock-art excursion.

Boat (multi-day/liveaboard)Up to 40 m
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Brisbane & Moreton Bay

Alden's Cave (Flinders Reef)

A short, sunlit swim-through cave with an opening in its roof – an easy first cave experience on Brisbane's best coral reef.

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Ribbon Reefs & Lizard Island

Andy's Postcard

A photogenic coral pinnacle with schooling trevally and barracuda on the southern Ribbons.

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

Anybody's (Agincourt Reef)

Wall dive followed by a winding return through coral-lined alleys.

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Ashmore Reef

Ashmore Reef

A remote Commonwealth reef reserve with extraordinary biodiversity and traditional perahu wrecks.

Boat (multi-day/liveaboard)Up to 30 m
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Far Northern Reef & Torres Strait

Auriga Bay (Southern Small Detached Reef)

Sheltered checkout dive on Southern Small Detached Reef at the start of far-north expeditions.

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Sunshine Coast

Aussie's Reef (Gneering Shoals)

An easy, shallow Gneering Shoals reef with coral growth.

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Capricorn Coast & Keppel Islands

Bald Rock (Keppels)

A south-coast rock reef with plate corals, black coral trees and resident batfish and wobbegongs.

Boat (day trip)Up to 16 m
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Ballina & Evans Head

Ballina – Black Head / Lennox reef system

A little-dived stretch of reef between Ballina and Lennox Head with a seasonal chance of grey nurse sharks and virtually no diver…

BoatUp to 22 m
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Ballina & Evans Head

Ballina – Lennox Reef

A quieter northern extension of the Ballina reef system toward Lennox Point, seeing very little diver traffic.

BoatUp to 20 m
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Kalbarri & Shark Bay

Bar Flats (Shark Bay)

Shallow coral, tubeworms and sponges with a chance of dugongs.

Boat (day trip)Up to 4 m
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