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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Maccas Reef (Jibbon)

Rated by McFadyen among his best-ever Sydney dives: a multi-directional wall covered in huge sponges with prolific schooling fish…

BoatUp to 27 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Magic Point

Sydney's only reliable grey nurse shark aggregation – a cave at 15 m where a dozen or more sharks patrol within 25 minutes of a…

BoatUp to 22 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Mahon Pool (North Maroubra)

A canyon system of gutters, ledges and swim-throughs from 7 to 24 m – Maroubra's most dramatic shore topography, for experts on…

Shore or BoatUp to 24 m
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Sydney Harbour

Manly Cove (Oceanworld nets)

White's seahorses on the swimming-net mesh two metres deep, 200 m from the Manly ferry – the easiest seahorse dive in Australia.

ShoreUp to 6 m
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Sydney Harbour

Manly Gasworks (Little Manly Point)

A quiet harbour point paved with gasworks coal, full of small rays and cephalopods – a free-parking night dive minutes from the…

ShoreUp to 7 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Marley Point (Royal National Park)

Massive boulders with swim-throughs and caves, grey nurse sharks and 20 m+ visibility on a calm westerly day in Royal National…

BoatUp to 22 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Marley Point North (Royal National Park)

Shallow swim-throughs and gullies over a rock platform plus a fishy sand edge, on calm winter westerlies.

BoatUp to 21 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Marys Reef (Royal National Park)

A sheer 3 m wall with overhangs, caves and sea tulips, discovered by the St George Scuba Club around 2012.

BoatUp to 24 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Middle Ground (Cronulla)

Compact deep reef with seals on most dives, up to six giant cuttlefish at a time and a large low cave – circumnavigable within…

BoatUp to 33 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Middle Ground North (Cronulla)

Sea whips carrying clusters of tiger anemones – rare in southern Sydney – plus pineapplefish on a compact 29 m reef.

BoatUp to 32 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Minmi Trench

Three coal-strewn trenches with swim-throughs and caves under some of the most colourful sponge growth in Botany Bay, 15 minutes…

BoatUp to 26 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

North Bondi (Ben Buckler Point)

Reliable weedy seadragons on the sand edge and a protected boat-ramp exit, under Sydney's most famous headland.

ShoreUp to 21 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Oak Park (Cronulla)

Sydney's classic training and night dive: an arcing wall of low caverns, the Meditation Cave, sea dragons and famously friendly…

ShoreUp to 10 m
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Sydney Northern Beaches

Old Man's Hat (North Head)

Sydney's finest sea-fan and sponge gardens with swim-throughs and canyons under North Head's hat-shaped rock, diveable when…

BoatUp to 26 m
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Sydney Northern Beaches

Old Man's Shoulder (North Head)

House-sized boulders with overhangs and swim-throughs rising from 27 m, patrolled by two-metre bull rays and sea dragons, 200 m…

BoatUp to 27 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

One Spot Reef (Royal National Park)

Thousands of one-spot pullers over boulders, caves and swim-throughs, with about 50 minutes of no-deco time.

BoatUp to 21 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Osborn Shoal (Cronulla)

Cronulla's signature boat dive: a flat kelp reef with drop-offs, an 18 m cave, friendly gropers and sea dragons, minutes from…

BoatUp to 24 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Osborn Shoal East

The most varied edge of Osborn Shoal: a sponge-covered drop-off, slanted parallel reefs and a good drift in a light current.

BoatUp to 22 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Osborn Shoal South West

Easy 2–3 m wall with swarms of pomfret and old wives, sea tulips and a small fibreglass boat wreck.

BoatUp to 18 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Osborn Shoal West

The biggest overhangs on Osborn Shoal, with large gorgonians and swarms of pomfret, on an easy 15 m wall.

BoatUp to 17 m
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Sydney Harbour

Parsley Bay

Seahorses on the wharf piles, eels in the mooring blocks and a sunken crane in a silty Vaucluse inlet under a suspension bridge –…

ShoreUp to 12 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Pistol Crack (Cape Banks)

A dramatic north–south fissure to 27 m with a Jervis Bay-style rock tunnel at 18 m and dense schools of yellowtail and nannygai…

BoatUp to 27 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Pizza Reef (Jibbon)

The original 'fast-food' reef: a round figure-8 reef with overhangs all round, a central gully, colourful gorgonians and humpback…

BoatUp to 27 m
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Sydney Northern Beaches

Red Indian Point

Sydney's most reliable red indianfish reef, with gullies, walls and swim-throughs in 12–23 m on the calmest corner of North Head.

BoatUp to 23 m