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Boat (day trip)Up to 12 m

Whitsundays & Bowen

Maureen's Cove (Hook Island)

Sheltered cove with a pretty beach and shallow fringing reef, used for snorkelling by sailing and snorkel tours.

Boat (day trip)Up to 21 m

Gold Coast

Mermaid Reef

A sprawling, still-being-mapped coffee-rock reef that often has the best visibility of the Gold Coast local reefs.

Christmas Island

Merrial Beach

The island's smallest and one of its prettiest beaches, with grotto-like overhangs and a pristine west-coast fringing reef.

BoatUp to 20 m

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

Pinnacle/Bommie

Coral Sea

Mid Reef (Flinders Reef)

45 m bommies and a current-swept gully alive with feather stars, fans and soft corals.

Christmas Island

Middle Beach

Relaxed north-coast reef dive below a boat-access beach, often combined with Lynnie's Bommie.

BoatUp to 25 m

NSW

Shore/Rock Platform

Lord Howe Island

Middle Beach

Quiet east-coast beach snorkel, an alternative to Neds Beach.

ShoreDepth not recorded

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

Drift

Coral Sea

Middle Earth (Bougainville Reef)

A rarely described Bougainville drift site on Mike Ball's Far Northern expedition.

Aircraft Wreck

Bundaberg & Agnes Water

Mohawk and King Air Aircraft (Cochrane Artificial Reef)

Two ex-military Mohawk aircraft and a King Air on sand at 16-18 m – compact, photogenic plane wrecks just off Bargara.

BoatUp to 18 m

Port Douglas

Mojo (Opal Reef)

Blue staghorn thickets near a reef gap with red bass schools, turtles and reef sharks.

Muck/Sand

Kalbarri & Shark Bay

Monkey Mia

World-famous wild dolphin visits – a wildlife experience, not a dive.

ShoreUp to 3 m

Hervey Bay & K'gari

Moon Ledge

Hervey Bay's best natural reef: a long coffee-rock ledge from 10 m to 21 m+ with caves, boulders, eroded spires and big cod.

BoatUp to 21 m

Boat (day trip)Up to 12 m

Muck/Sand

Lady Elliot Island

Mooring One (Lady Elliot Island)

A shallow mooring where squid shelter under the boat.

Boat (day trip)Up to 19 m

Gold Coast

Moray Reef

The deepest of the listed Palm Beach Reef sections, in 16-19 m, named for its moray eels.

Sunshine Coast

Murphys Reef

The quieter third reef system off Mooloolaba – ledges and bommies in 12-33 m with fewer divers than the Gneerings.

BoatUp to 33 m

North Stradbroke Island

Myora Reef

A tiny bay reef with around 46% hard coral cover in a no-fishing zone, surrounded by seagrass grazed by turtles and dugongs.

Shore or BoatUp to 5 m

Artificial Reef

Gold Coast

Narrowneck Artificial Reef

A giant sand-bag surf reef in the middle of the Gold Coast, colonised by soft corals, rays and wobbegongs – diveable on flat days…

ShoreUp to 10 m

Boat (day trip)Up to 22 m

Mission Beach & Cassowary Coast

Nathan Reef (Innisfail)

Rarely visited outer reefs off Innisfail for self-sufficient boat divers.

Boat (day trip)Up to 12 m

Wall

Lady Elliot Island

Nemo Wall (Lady Elliot Island)

A short drop-off covered in anemones and their clownfish.

NSW

Pinnacle/Bommie

Lord Howe Island

No-Name Rock

Channel-side rock in the Admiralty Islets next to Rupert's Reef.

Shore/Rock Platform

Sunshine Coast

Noosa National Park Headland (Tea Tree Bay – Granite Bay)

Snorkel the rocky bays of Noosa National Park on a calm day after a walk along the Coastal Track.

ShoreUp to 6 m

Port Douglas

North Bay (Agincourt Reef)

Shallow coral garden for beginners plus an easy drift along the outer wall for certified divers.

Port Douglas

North Sno (Opal Reef)

Open 'moonscape' terrain on North Opal with visibility often exceeding 30 m.

NSW

Boat (day trip)Up to 22 m

Coffs Harbour & Solitary Islands

North Solitary Island – Grey Nurse Gutters

A remote, lightly dived grey nurse shark gutter system at North Solitary Island, offering quieter encounters than the busier…