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Lord Howe Island

Balls Pyramid – Ballina Rock

The best chance of the rare Ballina angelfish, in a boulder field at the foot of a surface-breaking bommie with Galapagos sharks…

Boat (day trip)Up to 28 m
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Lord Howe Island

Balls Pyramid – Observatory Rock

Drift through 5–8 m rock stacks and caves packed with lobsters, with Galapagos sharks circling on the safety stop and a chance of…

Boat (day trip)Up to 28 m
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Lord Howe Island

Balls Pyramid – South East Rock

Easy-profile Balls Pyramid dive on a boulder and ledge shelf with lobster-filled overhangs and plate coral – long bottom times in…

Boat (day trip)Up to 30 m
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Sydney Harbour

Balmoral Baths

Dozens of White's seahorses on the net of a Middle Harbour swimming enclosure in under 5 m – Sydney's easiest and most famous…

ShoreUp to 5 m
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Melbourne & Port Phillip Bay

Banksia Point, Ricketts Point

Quietest entry in the sanctuary; very shallow close-in reef for snorkelling, children and relaxed night dives.

ShoreUp to 3 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Bare Island

Sydney's premier shore dive and macro site – Indianfish, pygmy pipehorses, seahorses and anglerfish on sponge reef beside an…

ShoreUp to 15 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Bare Island – 15 Metre Reef

A low sponge ridge at 14–16 m that is Bare Island's best pygmy pipehorse and nudibranch hunting ground, with Sea Horse Rock and…

ShoreUp to 16 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Bare Island – Deep Wall

Bare Island's deepest and most colourful route – a 3 m+ wall at 15–19 m linking the Big Rock, cable gully, 15 Metre Reef and…

Shore or BoatUp to 19 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Bare Island – Isolated Reefs

Two sponge-smothered reefs alone on the sand at 15–19 m, with kingfish, giant flathead, seahorses and anglerfish – Bare Island's…

ShoreUp to 19 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Bare Island – Left (Eastern Side)

The easiest Bare Island route – a 6–12 m reef edge with a canyon and cave, seadragons and pygmy pipehorses, ideal for training…

ShoreUp to 12 m
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Bundaberg & Agnes Water

Barolin Rocks

Queensland's best-known shore dive: a sheltered, shallow soft-coral reef with prolific nudibranchs, turtles and sea snakes,…

ShoreUp to 10 m
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Port Douglas

Barracuda Bommie (Agincourt Reef 2)

Circling barracuda school over a coral pinnacle; excellent snorkelling on the shallow garden around it.

Boat (day trip)Up to 22 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Barrens Hut (Royal National Park)

Southern Sydney's classic wall dive: a life-covered drop-off to 28 m with The Cave, a swim-through Tunnel and friendly blue…

BoatUp to 28 m
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Geelong & Bellarine

Barwon Bluff North

The sheltered river side of the Bluff, leading to a kelp-fringed bay between the reef pincers at Point Flinders with blue groper…

ShoreUp to 9 m
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Geelong & Bellarine

Barwon Bluff South

Sandstone pincer reef with kelp forests, small arches and sponge gardens on the ocean face of the Bluff; the best of the Barwon…

ShoreUp to 9 m
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Geelong & Bellarine

Barwon Heads Bluff

The Bellarine's main ocean shore dive: kelp forests, sandstone arches and sponge gardens around a marine-sanctuary headland at…

ShoreUp to 9 m
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Port Douglas

Bashful Bommie (Opal Reef)

Double-sided bommie with a sea-fan wall on a deep channel, a sheltered clam garden, and a very friendly Maori wrasse.

Boat (day trip)Up to 18 m
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Wollongong & Kiama

Bass Point Bommie

Pinnacle with a sheer southern wall and massive schools of yellowtail, seapike and nannygai.

BoatUp to 25 m
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Wollongong & Kiama

Bass Point Gravel Loader

Shallow, sheltered jetty dive with a resident group of grey nurse sharks and outstanding night diving.

ShoreUp to 12 m
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Wollongong & Kiama

Bass Point Island South

A big sponge-and-gorgonian-covered vertical wall and steep boulder slope with dense schools in the shallows.

BoatUp to 32 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Bass and Flinders Point (Cronulla)

Easy shallow entry and, every October, well over 100 newly hatched Port Jackson sharks on the sand.

ShoreUp to 6 m
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Geraldton & Abrolhos Islands

Batavia Wreck Site (Morning Reef)

Cannons and anchors of the 1629 Batavia – Australia's most notorious shipwreck and mutiny – in 7 m on Morning Reef.

Boat (multi-day/liveaboard)Up to 7 m
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Port Phillip Heads

Batman

A compact, easily navigated 1883 hopper barge and one-time Victorian Navy gunboat with a large upright boiler at the bow – the…

Boat (day trip)Up to 46 m
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Mission Beach & Cassowary Coast

Beaver Reef

Mission Beach's main outer reef: an uncrowded green-zone reef with coral gardens, turtles and a shark-patrolled southern wall.

Boat (day trip)Up to 22 m