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675 dive sites matching “turtle”Across Australia
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Sunshine Coast

Castle Rock

A large rock overhang carpeted in orange coral at about 21 m, with crayfish, batfish and trevally.

BoatUp to 21 m
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Ribbon Reefs & Lizard Island

Casuarina Beach (Lizard Island)

Snorkel with resident green turtles grazing in the shallows.

Shore or BoatDepth not recorded
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Far Northern Reef & Torres Strait

Cat Reef

Remote fan-covered walls with pelagics beside Tijou Reef.

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

Catchers Mitt (Tijou / Cat Reef)

Hard-coral gullies full of fish on the remote Tijou/Cat reefs.

Boat (multi-day/liveaboard)Depth not recorded
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Townsville & Magnetic Island

Centipede Reef

Quiet mid-shelf reef near Wheeler with trevally schools and bommies on its exposed faces.

Boat (day trip)Up to 20 m
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Bundaberg & Agnes Water

Ceratodus II (Cochrane Artificial Reef)

The biggest and oldest structure on Cochrane Artificial Reef – a 50 m hull covered in growth and wrapped in schooling fish.

BoatUp to 20 m
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Lady Elliot Island

Chain Bommies (Lady Elliot Island)

Coral bommies wrapped in a shipwreck's chain.

Boat (day trip)Up to 16 m
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Darwin Harbour

Channel Rock

A channel-side rock with Darwin's best odds of turtles, plus rays, barracuda and big schools.

Boat (day trip)Up to 16 m
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Townsville & Magnetic Island

Chicken Reef

Topographically interesting northern flank with gullies, caves and swim-throughs; a 1980s classic recovering from Cyclone Yasi.

Boat (multi-day/liveaboard)Up to 20 m
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Port Douglas

Chinaman Reef

Little-dived mid-shelf reef between Rudder and Opal reefs, an option on private charters.

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

Circle of Life

A seldom-described southern Ribbon Reef mooring on Mike Ball's itinerary map.

Boat (multi-day/liveaboard)Depth not recorded
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Gold Coast

Clown City

A Palm Beach Reef site in 10-17 m known for its anemones and anemonefish (clownfish).

Boat (day trip)Up to 17 m
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Sunshine Coast

Clown Reef

A shallow reef of anemones and clownfish with good macro life – an easy dive for beginners and photographers.

BoatDepth not recorded
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Brisbane & Moreton Bay

Comboyuro Point

A deep coffee-rock drift at the northern entrance to Moreton Bay with grey nurse sharks, estuary cod and pelagics.

Boat (day trip)Up to 40 m
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Groote Eylandt

Connexion Island

A sheltered island reef off Alyangula with the clearer water and richer shallow coral of the Gulf of Carpentaria.

Boat (day trip)Up to 30 m
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Tweed & Byron Bay

Cook Island – Southern Aquarium

The more exposed, current-affected southern flank of Cook Island, offering deeper ledges and better pelagic fish encounters than…

BoatUp to 24 m
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Brisbane & Moreton Bay

Cowan Cowan

A quiet western Moreton foreshore beside the historic Fort Cowan Cowan, and the landmark for Curtin reef and The Pines.

Shore or BoatUp to 12 m
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Sunshine Coast

Currimundi Reef

A little-known fishing reef off Currimundi – rarely dived and undocumented.

BoatDepth not recorded
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Coral Sea

Deep Six (Bougainville Reef)

A seldom-described Bougainville Reef site (marinelife.org.au's list of additional Bougainville sites and Mike Ball's itinerary…

Boat (multi-day/liveaboard)Depth not recorded
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Lady Elliot Island

Devils Marbles (Lady Elliot Island)

A cluster of 'marble' bommies at the southern mooring, in manta feeding territory.

Boat (day trip)Up to 18 m
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Ningaloo – Exmouth

Dibley's

A quieter Lighthouse Bay alternative with the bay's typical ledges, cracks and fish.

Boat (day trip)Up to 15 m
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Ningaloo – Exmouth

Dinner Plates

Formerly dense fields of plate coral (likely heatwave-affected).

Boat (day trip)Up to 18 m
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Broome & Kimberley

Disaster Rock

Pelagic action on an offshore rock.

BoatUp to 25 m
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Christmas Island

Dolly Beach

A remote palm-fringed reef beach with turtle nesting, rock pools and a freshwater stream – snorkel and camp.

ShoreUp to 10 m
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