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87 dive sites matching “Great Barrier Reef”Across Australia
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Port Douglas

Flower Gardens (St Crispin Reef)

Soft-coral 'flower garden' near St Crispin's southern gap with rabbitfish pairs and nudibranchs.

Boat (day trip)Depth not recorded
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Far Northern Reef & Torres Strait

Great Detached Reef

Remote 46 km shelf-edge reef system with steep gorgonian walls, pinnacles from 60 m and pristine coral.

Boat (multi-day/liveaboard)Up to 40 m
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Far Northern Reef & Torres Strait

HMAS Warrnambool wreck

Intact 1947 WWII corvette on its port side in 25 m – the only RAN ship lost to a mine.

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

Helm's Deep Drift (Agincourt Reef 2)

Tidal channel drift between Agincourt reefs 2A and 2B with grey reef sharks, turtles and barramundi cod.

Boat (day trip)Up to 25 m
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Port Douglas

Izzy's Wall (Agincourt Reef 2)

Steep 5–30 m wall with juvenile grey reef sharks and turtles; often run as a drift.

Boat (day trip)Up to 30 m
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Port Douglas

Low Isles

Snorkel straight off a coral cay beach with a high chance of turtles, 30 minutes from Port Douglas; historic 1878 lighthouse.

Boat (day trip)Up to 8 m
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Ribbon Reefs & Lizard Island

MacGillivray Reef

Coral cay reef 20 minutes from Lizard with macro life, reef sharks and a seabird-nesting cay.

Boat (day trip)Up to 25 m
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Ribbon Reefs & Lizard Island

Mermaid Cove (Lizard Island)

Sheltered cove with coral bommies, cuttlefish and swarms of fusiliers close to the resort.

Boat (day trip)Up to 12 m
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Ribbon Reefs & Lizard Island

North Direction Island

Historic Cook navigation landmark with a macro-rich sandy bottom and resident eagle rays.

Boat (day trip)Up to 25 m
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Port Douglas

Phil's Backside (Agincourt Reef)

A massive coral slope and deep bommies with some of the largest giant clams on the Port Douglas reefs.

Boat (day trip)Depth not recorded
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Far Northern Reef & Torres Strait

Raine Island

The world's largest green turtle rookery – dozens of turtles per dive and a chance of tiger sharks on pristine outer reef.

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Port Douglas

Sandbox (Opal Reef)

Shallow staghorn gardens and sand patches with a resident barracuda school – a relaxed final dive.

Boat (day trip)Up to 11 m
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Port Douglas

Sno (Opal Reef)

An all-rounder wall-and-reef-top site with turtles, sharks and a shallow safety-stop reef; recovered coral after crown-of-thorns…

Boat (day trip)Up to 18 m
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Port Douglas

St Crispin Reef

Maze of sandy channels between soft-coral mounds – the 'Flower Garden' – on a quiet four-mooring outer reef.

Boat (day trip)Up to 18 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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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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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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Port Douglas

Wreck Site (Agincourt Reef 3)

Clear sandy lagoon with 12 m pinnacles and the coral-covered remains of a fishing boat in the shallows.

Boat (day trip)Up to 24 m
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Ribbon Reefs & Lizard Island

Yonge Reef

Colourful outer-reef drift for divers and snorkellers north of Lizard Island.

Boat (day trip)Up to 20 m
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Port Douglas

Acropolis (Opal Reef)

A shallow Acropora coral amphitheatre leading onto a nudibranch-rich wall.

Boat (day trip)Depth not recorded
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Port Douglas

Advanced Bommie (Agincourt Reef)

Two huge coral towers rising from 40 m with a deep gutter – one of the sharkiest spots on Agincourt.

Boat (day trip)Up to 40 m
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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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Port Douglas

Anybody's (Agincourt Reef)

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

Boat (day trip)Depth not recorded
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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.

Boat (multi-day/liveaboard)Depth not recorded
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