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Rottnest Island

Parker Point Snorkel Trail

Snorkel trail with seabed plaques over the southernmost pocillopora coral reef, in a sanctuary zone 5 km from the ferry.

ShoreUp to 12 m
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Sydney Harbour

Parsley Bay

Seahorses on the wharf piles, eels in the mooring blocks and a sunken crane in a silty Vaucluse inlet under a suspension bridge –…

ShoreUp to 12 m
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Port Phillip Heads

Party Point

Vertical Lonsdale Wall face with a step-out every 6–9 m and a cave-like overhang behind each one, from 12 m to 45 m – the…

BoatUp to 45 m
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Margaret River & Augusta

Peak Island & Toba Wreck

A 1907 Aru Islands-built pearling ketch against the reef at Peak Island, with overhangs and hard corals around it.

Boat (day trip)Up to 15 m
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Christmas Island

Perpendicular Wall

A true vertical wall into the abyss at the island's north-western tip, with colourful fans, schooling fish and a real chance of…

BoatUp to 40 m
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Cairns

Petaj Mooring (Milln Reef)

Resident turtles and whitetip sharks on a wall with a swim-through; a favourite liveaboard night dive.

Boat (day trip)Up to 20 m
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Port Phillip Heads

Petriana

The tanker whose 1903 wreck caused Australia's first major oil spill – a relatively intact bow in 3 m and scattered iron to 6 m…

BoatUp to 6 m
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Cocos (Keeling) Islands

Phaeton Wreck

An 1868 composite barque burnt and run aground in 1889, its iron-framed bow and midships still upright in 4 m – snorkel through…

Boat (day trip)Up to 6 m
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Port Douglas

Phil's Reef (Agincourt Reef 3)

Huge tiers of plate coral sheltering groper and whitetips; giant clams and cuttlefish on a compact, shallow reef.

Boat (day trip)Up to 16 m
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Mount Gambier Sinkholes & Caves

Piccaninnie Ponds

The approach to Australia's most famous sinkhole: weed meadows in near-perfect visibility leading to the lip of a 100 m+ chasm.

ShoreUp to 10 m
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Townsville & Magnetic Island

Picnic Bay Jetty

Heritage jetty with pylons full of soft coral, schools of baitfish, wobbegongs and big stonefish – a good night and macro dive.

Shore or BoatUp to 6 m
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Wollongong & Kiama

Pig Island – North East

Kelp, sponge-covered outlier rocks and a pink-rock slope with rays and seasonal tropical visitors.

BoatUp to 26 m
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Wollongong & Kiama

Pig Island – South East

Dense sponge, gorgonian and lace-coral growth on a small wall with huge schools of pomfret, nannygai and sweep.

BoatUp to 25 m
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Coffs Harbour & Solitary Islands

Pimpernel Rock

A remote, U-shaped pinnacle with a semi-trailer-sized tunnel through its base, huge jewfish and kingfish schools, and grey nurse…

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

Pioneer

A 1905 Clyde-built pump dredge that is one of the most complete large wrecks off Victoria – both propellers in place and…

Boat (day trip)Up to 50 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Pistol Crack (Cape Banks)

A dramatic north–south fissure to 27 m with a Jervis Bay-style rock tunnel at 18 m and dense schools of yellowtail and nannygai…

BoatUp to 27 m
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Ribbon Reefs & Lizard Island

Pixie Pinnacle

A small pinnacle packed from top to bottom with fish and critters, including the flashing 'disco clam'.

Boat (multi-day/liveaboard)Up to 30 m
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Ribbon Reefs & Lizard Island

Pixie Wall

The Ribbon Reefs' most reliable summer manta cleaning station, on a wall with big fans and sun-coral trees.

Boat (multi-day/liveaboard)Up to 30 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Pizza Reef (Jibbon)

The original 'fast-food' reef: a round figure-8 reef with overhangs all round, a central gully, colourful gorgonians and humpback…

BoatUp to 27 m
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Cairns

Plate Top (Norman Reef)

A massive coral range off the main reef where fish crowd the northern corner at low tide.

Boat (day trip)Up to 25 m
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Cairns

Playground (Norman Reef)

Divers Den's overnight liveaboard mooring – sandy valleys, Lionfish Bommie and Split Bommie with leafy scorpionfish; a superb…

Boat (day trip)Up to 18 m
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Surf Coast & Great Ocean Road

Point Addis

Sponge-lined limestone gutters running out toward a marine-national-park headland, with seadragons, blue devils and crays; the…

ShoreUp to 10 m
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Surf Coast & Great Ocean Road

Point Danger, Torquay

Torquay's marine sanctuary headland with a record 96 sea-slug species, eagle rays and Amphibolis meadows in under 7 m, and…

ShoreUp to 20 m
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Mornington Peninsula

Point Franklin Reef, Portsea

The best natural reef dive on the bay side of the Peninsula from shore – ledges to 15 m, seadragons and lobsters, and a tidal…

ShoreUp to 15 m