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160 dive sites matching “grey nurse”Across Australia
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Coffs Harbour & Solitary Islands

South Solitary Island – Buchanan's Wall

The best macro and invertebrate photography wall at South Solitary Island, with abundant nudibranchs and Spanish dancers.

Boat (day trip)Up to 30 m
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Coffs Harbour & Solitary Islands

South Solitary Island – Manta Arch

The signature dive of the Solitary Islands Marine Park: a natural arch through a boulder field with one of the most reliable…

Boat (day trip)Up to 30 m
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Coffs Harbour & Solitary Islands

South Solitary Island – Shark Gutters

A shallow, swim-through gutter that has historically been one of the most productive grey nurse shark sites at South Solitary…

Boat (day trip)Up to 18 m
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Central Coast

Terrigal Haven

The Central Coast's most accessible and heavily used dive site — a sheltered bay doubling as training ground and boat-charter…

ShoreUp to 15 m
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Sydney Northern Beaches

The Apartments (Long Reef)

Grey nurse sharks cruising a sandstone gutter 35 minutes from Manly, with the Cathedral tunnel and stacked 'apartment' blocks…

BoatUp to 21 m
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North Stradbroke Island

The Bowl (Flat Rock)

A coral-lined basin that runs from a 10 m rim to 34 m, with turtles, groupers and seasonal sharks.

Boat (day trip)Up to 34 m
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Sydney 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…

ShoreUp to 14 m
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Sydney 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.

ShoreUp to 15 m
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Gold Coast

Wave Break Island

A sheltered island rock wall inside the Seaway with swarms of hand-fed fish – the Gold Coast's favourite snorkel and…

BoatUp to 12 m
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Rainbow Beach

Wolf Rock

Australia's premier grey nurse shark dive and the only known gestation site for the east-coast population, with dozens of sharks…

Boat (day trip)Up to 38 m
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South West Rocks

Black Rock (South West Rocks) – Northern Side

A sheltered, all-levels reef between twin rocks with dense plate coral gardens and resident turtles and rays.

BoatUp to 16 m
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Port Stephens

Broughton Island – Looking Glass Wall

A 40 m boulder wall beside the Looking Glass, with caves holding the rare eastern blue devil fish and dense sponge growth.

BoatUp to 40 m
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Port Stephens

Broughton Island – North Rock

A kelp-and-sponge bommie site increasingly used for grey nurse shark encounters to spread pressure away from the main Shark…

BoatUp to 22 m
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Port Stephens

Broughton Island – Spider Cave & Bubble Cave

Two adjoining caves — a documented grey nurse shark breeding site and a chamber with an internal air pocket and resident cod.

BoatUp to 14 m
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Narooma & Montague Island

Bubble Cave (Montague Island)

An air-pocket cave on Montague's northern headland, with seals often joining the dive.

Boat (day trip)Up to 30 m
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Port Stephens

Cabbage Tree Island (Port Stephens)

A safer, more sheltered island wall dive close to Nelson Bay, popular for training and intermediate-level diving with a genuine…

BoatUp to 40 m
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Brisbane & Moreton Bay

Cherubs Cave

A 20 x 15 m cave with six exits, surrounded by gullies where grey nurse sharks gather in winter.

Boat (day trip)Up to 30 m
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Brisbane & Moreton Bay

China Wall

A sheer granite wall topped by kelp and a 2 m swim-through, with crayfish, fans and pelagics on Moreton's ocean side.

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

Cook Island – Northern Ledge

Turtle-rich aquatic reserve minutes from Tweed Heads/Coolangatta with multiple moorings so it can be dived in almost any swell;…

BoatUp to 22 m
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Sydney Northern Beaches

Dee Why Wide (Deep)

A true wall from 30 to 36 m with the richest sponge and gorgonian growth on the Northern Beaches and big pelagics on the edge.

BoatUp to 37 m
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Forster & Seal Rocks

Edith Breaker

The historic reef that wrecked the SS Satara in 1910 — dived both for its natural reef structure and its maritime history.

BoatUp to 30 m
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Sydney Northern Beaches

Fairfax Lookout (North Head)

The deepest and richest of the North Head reefs – walls and swim-throughs above sponge gardens at 26–30 m at the tip of the…

BoatUp to 30 m
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South West Rocks

Fish Rock – Colorado Pass

A high-current drift dive through gutters and canyons linking Fish Rock to The Pinnacle — only diveable in the roughly one day in…

BoatUp to 37 m
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South West Rocks

Fish Rock – Fish Bommies

A boulder-strewn deep gutter at Fish Rock with resident wobbegongs and a strong chance of juvenile and adult grey nurse sharks…

BoatUp to 32 m