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675 dive sites matching “turtle”Across Australia
EXTYouDive mascot illustration; not a photograph of the siteShore/Rock Platform

Christmas Island

Greta Beach

A sheltered ocean pool below a steep staircase, with nesting turtles and one of the best red crab spawning spectacles.

ShoreUp to 8 m
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Lady Elliot Island

Groupers Grovel (Lady Elliot Island)

Rarely visited eastern grooves where grouper hide.

Boat (day trip)Up to 20 m
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Norfolk Island

Hard Belly Stone (Phillip Island)

Rarely documented Phillip Island site on the island's northern side.

Boat (day trip)Depth not recorded
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Whitsundays & Bowen

Haslewood Island – Waite Bay

Very good coral cover with a wall to 18 m and winter manta rays in a quiet southern Whitsunday bay.

Boat (day trip)Up to 18 m
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Cairns

Hastings Wall

The outer wall of Hastings Reef, with coral growing even inside its undercuts and caves.

Boat (day trip)Up to 25 m
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Ningaloo – Exmouth

Helga's Tunnels

Tunnels and swim-throughs on the deepest of the Lighthouse Bay sites.

Boat (day trip)Up to 30 m
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Coral Sea

Herald Cays

Some of Australia's most isolated reefs and cays, with nesting turtles, seabird colonies and the Coral Sea's last Pisonia forests.

Boat (multi-day/liveaboard)Up to 40 m
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Ningaloo – Exmouth

Hole in the Wall (Ningaloo)

Caves packed with glassfish.

Boat (day trip)Up to 20 m
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Cocos (Keeling) Islands

Home Island Jetty and Foreshore

Easy swimming and snorkelling off the Home Island foreshore beside the ferry jetty.

ShoreUp to 4 m
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Cocos (Keeling) Islands

Horsburgh Island

Uninhabited palm island with WWII six-inch guns and shallow lagoon snorkelling, surrounded by some of Cocos' best dive sites.

Boat (day trip)Up to 6 m
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Lord Howe Island

Horseshoe Reef

Guided lagoon snorkel in the southern sanctuary zone with bright coral.

Boat (day trip)Depth not recorded
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Swain Reefs

Horseshoe Reef (Swain Reefs)

The Swains' most varied reef: a big sheltered lagoon, deep walls to 35 m and a wreck site.

Boat (multi-day/liveaboard)Up to 35 m
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Lady Musgrave & Bunker Group

Hoskyn Islands – Cabbage Patch

A small lagoon of creviced bommies and the shallow Cabbage Patch, excellent for night dives, beside a no-landing bird sanctuary.

Boat (multi-day/liveaboard)Up to 18 m
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Capricorn Coast & Keppel Islands

Humpy Island (Keppels)

Several sheltered fringing-reef sites on the southern side – the Keppels' fallback on northerly days.

Boat (day trip)Up to 14 m
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Yamba & Iluka

Iluka Bluff / Woody Head reefs

A rarely dived reef on the rugged, rainforest-backed headland at the mouth of the Clarence River, within the Iluka world heritage…

Shore or BoatUp to 15 m
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Lady Elliot Island

Inside (Lady Elliot Island)

A shallow reef-flat mooring near the Lighthouse quayway.

Boat (day trip)Up to 6 m
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Christmas Island

Isabel Beach

Convenient Settlement-coast reef and drop-off a few minutes from the jetty.

BoatUp to 20 m
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Brisbane & Moreton Bay

Jons Cave

A newly found multi-entrance cave system with black coral and crayfish under a kelp-topped reef on Moreton's wild eastern side.

Boat (day trip)Depth not recorded
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Cairns

Jorgensen Patch

An exposed, current-swept patch reef with walls, gullies, caves and swim-throughs – for experienced divers only.

Boat (day trip)Up to 25 m
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Tweed & Byron Bay

Julian Rocks – Mackerel Boulder

A current-swept boulder near the Needles known for dense schools of pelagic fish holding in the current.

BoatUp to 17 m
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NSWYouDive mascot illustration; not a photograph of the siteCave/Cavern

Tweed & Byron Bay

Julian Rocks – Rock Cod Cave

A small cave overhang on Julian Rocks' southern flank with a large resident black cod, close to Cray Cave and Gorgonian Hollow.

BoatUp to 24 m
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Tweed & Byron Bay

Julian Rocks – The Trench

A deeper, more exposed swim-through trench on Julian Rocks' south-eastern flank, with a good winter chance of grey nurse sharks.

BoatUp to 22 m
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Tweed & Byron Bay

Julian Rocks – Tricky's

A quieter connecting stretch of gutters and boulder slope between the Nursery and the Cod Hole, good for building confidence…

BoatUp to 18 m
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Hervey Bay & K'gari

K'gari Wreck (Roy Rufus Artificial Reef)

The broken, heavily encrusted hull of the 1897 K'gari at 16 m on Hervey Bay's historic artificial reef.

BoatUp to 17 m
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