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Shore/Rock PlatformSydney Harbour
Fairlight
A sheltered harbour wall with two small boat wrecks, soft corals and winter PJ sharks – Manly's all-weather training and…
Shore/Rock PlatformSydney Northern Beaches
Fairy Bower
The dusky whaler side of Cabbage Tree Bay – a quiet, shallow wall-and-kelp reef along the Manly promenade that comes alive at…
Shore/Rock PlatformSydney Northern Beaches
Freshwater (Harbord)
Sea dragons, sharks and an outer reef with 3.5 m walls off an ocean rock platform – the Northern Beaches' best and most demanding…
Shore/Rock PlatformSydney South & Botany Bay
Gordons Bay
Australia's first underwater nature trail – a 620 m chain loop around a sheltered bay that makes a foolproof training or night…
Shore/Rock PlatformSydney Harbour
Green Point (Camp Cove)
Overhangs, small caves and a boulder field to 15–19 m off the Camp Cove headland – the deepest shore dive inside the harbour's…
WreckSydney Northern Beaches
HMAS Doomba / Meggol wreck
A WWI Royal Navy minesweeper that became a Brisbane ferry, an RAN warship and a Sydney oil barge, lying beside the Dee Why ferry…
ReefSydney South & Botany Bay
Henry Head (Botany Bay)
Boulders, ledges and swim-throughs under some of Sydney's best sponge gardens, sheltered in a north-easterly and only 1 km from…
WreckSydney Northern Beaches
Himma wreck
Compact WWII Empire tug at 50 m with an intact propeller and a boiler room you can look into through the hull; the deepest of the…
WallSydney South & Botany Bay
Hungry Jacks (Jibbon)
A north–south wall with large low overhangs, big sponges and huge schools of seapike and trevally, next to Maccas.
ReefSydney South & Botany Bay
Indian Point (Congwong Bay)
A 9–15 m wall cut by thirteen gutters with seadragons, red Indianfish and seahorses, a few hundred metres from Bare Island and…
Shore/Rock PlatformSydney South & Botany Bay
Inscription Point (Kurnell)
A one-way flood-tide drift past Sydney's best sponge gardens and up to twenty seadragons, finishing at the Monuments wall.
Artificial ReefSydney South & Botany Bay
JD Reef North (Royal National Park)
Eighteen 25-tonne concrete modules in a Greek-cross layout, some with 9 m steel pylons, now colonised by jewel anemones.
Pinnacle/BommieSydney South & Botany Bay
Jibbon Bombora (Fish Reef)
The reef that shelters Port Hacking: overhangs, a canyon and a huge overhang on the south-east side with giant cuttlefish, big…
Shore/Rock PlatformSydney Harbour
Kirribilli Point
A night dive under the Kirribilli ferries opposite the Opera House, with the Harbour Bridge overhead and the Prime Minister's…
Artificial ReefSydney South & Botany Bay
Kurnell Desalination Plant Inlet
Four giant concrete intake cylinders with ceilings carpeted in multi-coloured jewel anemones, schooling seapike and kingfish.
Shore/Rock PlatformSydney South & Botany Bay
La Perouse Point (Larpa)
A 40–60 minute macro drift around La Perouse Point with seadragons, firefish, pygmy pipehorses, anglerfish and blue-ringed…
Muck/SandSydney South & Botany Bay
Lilli Pilli (Port Hacking)
One of Sydney's best seahorse dives – up to 63 White's seahorses recorded on the swimming-enclosure net and seagrass – with easy…
Shore/Rock PlatformSydney South & Botany Bay
Little Bay
An easy, protected bay with a wall of overhangs and swim-throughs east of the mouth – and the best post-dive view in Sydney from…
WallSydney South & Botany Bay
Little Saigon (Cape Baily)
Colourful sponge-covered wall off Cape Baily Lighthouse with boulder gullies and prolific fish, from 20 m to past 32 m.
Shore/Rock PlatformSydney South & Botany Bay
Long Bay (Malabar)
Protected, shallow bay dive with overhung rocks and seadragons that works in most weather and is excellent at night.
WallSydney Northern Beaches
Long Reef Wall
The Cathedral – a peaked sandstone tunnel packed with pomfret – and Andy's Cave on a sponge-covered wall 35 minutes from Manly.
WreckSydney Northern Beaches
M24 Japanese midget submarine (protected zone – no diving)
The midget submarine that torpedoed HMAS Kuttabul in 1942, found by recreational divers in 2006 off Bungan Head at 55 m – a…
WreckSydney Northern Beaches
MV Bellubera wreck
A 1910 Manly ferry in two pieces with an intact bow and open, fish-filled interior at 45 m.
WreckSydney South & Botany Bay
MV Malabar wreck (Long Bay)
Massive swim-through diesel engine, propeller, rudder and anchors of a 107 m passenger liner in just 9–10 m, reachable from shore.