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Shore/Rock PlatformWollongong & Kiama
The Gutter (Bass Point)
Sheltered gutter and canyon system with sea dragons and sponge gullies – diveable even in a southerly gale.
ReefWollongong & Kiama
The Gutter Sponge Gardens
Deep shore-accessible sponge garden at 20–23 m with excellent macro life, sheltered from southerlies.
WallTasmania East Coast
The Hairy Wall
A long granite drop-off bristling with sea whips, often with the clearest water in the reserve.
ReefUlladulla
The Hole (Ulladulla)
Deep wall with black coral trees, dense gorgonians and vivid sponges; boulder caves at the base and the elusive 'hole' in the…
ReefNingaloo – Exmouth
The Labyrinth
A maze of limestone gutters and swim-throughs with a turtle cleaning station.
Shore/Rock PlatformSydney South & Botany Bay
The Leap (Kurnell)
Leap off the rocks, drop to a 22 m wall and drift the flood tide west over sponge gardens and seadragons to The Steps – Sydney's…
WallSydney South & Botany Bay
The Leap Deep (Kurnell)
The gorgonian-covered 15–22 m wall at the seaward edge of The Leap reef, often in 20 m+ visibility, by boat or as a deep…
WallPort Phillip Heads
The Links
A freighter's anchor chain, cut free in the 1980s, hanging from 18 m to 60 m down Lonsdale Wall and now completely overgrown with…
WallPort Phillip Heads
The Mall
The central and fishiest stretch of Lonsdale Wall – a near-vertical face from 15 m to 45 m with blue devils, cuttlefish, crayfish…
Shore/Rock PlatformSydney South & Botany Bay
The Monument / Sutherland Point (Kurnell)
Sydney's most southerly-proof shore dive – a 3 m wall of sponge gardens and overhangs with breeding seadragons, dived as a gentle…
ReefChristmas Island
The Morgue
A macro-rich slope with giant Acropora and feather stars, ribbon eels and Spanish dancers – the island's favourite boat night…
ReefJervis Bay
The Nursery
Exceptionally dense fish schools on a shallow, sheltered reef – ideal for training, photography and night dives.
ReefNorth Stradbroke Island
The Nursery (Flat Rock)
Shallow coral gardens on Flat Rock with turtles, nudibranchs and summer leopard sharks – the best introduction to Straddie diving.
WallBrisbane & Moreton Bay
The Pines
A 500 m coffee-rock wall best dived as a drift on the incoming tide, packed with wobbegongs, turtles and schooling fish.
Pinnacle/BommiePhillip Island & Western Port
The Pinnacles (Cape Woolamai)
Granite spires rising from 38 m to 9 m, coated in sponge and soft coral and thick with schooling fish, with seals from the Cape…
ReefWhitsundays & Bowen
The Pinnacles (Hook Island)
Near-solid shallow coral and a field of large bommies, with some of the best snorkelling in the Whitsundays.
Muck/SandPort Stephens
The Pipeline (Nelson Bay)
NSW's benchmark muck-diving site — a 250 m disused pipeline on silty sand renowned for seahorses, pipefish and blue-ringed…
ReefPort Douglas
The Point (Agincourt Reef 4)
Southern point of Agincourt 4 with magnificent coral and big schools of red bass, sweetlips and trevally.
DriftCocos (Keeling) Islands
The Rip (Direction Island)
A fast, coral-lined drift channel from the ocean into the lagoon, full of sharks, humphead parrotfish and Napoleon wrasse, with a…
Sinkhole/CenoteMount Gambier Sinkholes & Caves
The Shaft
A single midday shaft of sunlight falling into a flooded chamber 140 m long – and the birthplace of Australia's cave-diving rules.
WallSydney South & Botany Bay
The Split (Royal National Park)
A 4 m deep, 2 m wide crack splitting a kelp reef at 22 m, with pygmy pipehorses, upside-down pipefish and visibility up to 35 m.
Shore/Rock PlatformSydney South & Botany Bay
The Steps (Kurnell)
Sydney's definitive weedy seadragon dive – a sand edge at 10–15 m below superb boulder sponge gardens, opposite Bare Island.
Cave/CavernBatemans Bay
The Tunnel (Black Rock)
Swim a 15–20 m tunnel and exit straight up a vertical hole onto the reef top.
WreckSydney Northern Beaches
The Valiant wreck
An intact 22 m tug upright on white sand in 27 m under the Barrenjoey lighthouse – the best small wreck dive north of Sydney…