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437 dive sites matching “groper”Across Australia
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Tweed & Byron Bay

Julian Rocks – Cod Hole

Julian Rocks' signature swim-through/cave, packed with wobbegongs year-round and grey nurse sharks resting in the passage through…

BoatUp to 22 m
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Tweed & Byron Bay

Julian Rocks – The Nursery

The most colourful, fish-dense and sheltered quarter of Julian Rocks; the classic beginner, training and snorkel site where…

BoatUp to 12 m
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Eden & Green Cape

Lanercost

Scattered remains of an 1872 timber barque, identified by an 1864 US cent, in two gullies near Mowarry Point.

BoatUp to 21 m
QLDYouDive mascot illustration; not a photograph of the sitePinnacle/Bommie

Lady Elliot Island

Lighthouse Bommies (Lady Elliot Island)

Lady Elliot's signature 'manta truck-stop': small coral bommies at 14 m where mantas queue for cleaning, often all dive long.

Boat (day trip)Up to 18 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Lilli Pilli (Port Hacking)

One of Sydney's best seahorse dives – up to 63 White's seahorses recorded on the swimming-enclosure net and seagrass – with easy…

ShoreUp to 13 m
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Kangaroo Island

Loch Vennachar Wreck

The scattered iron of a Loch Line clipper that vanished with all hands in 1905, beneath the cliffs at West Bay.

BoatUp to 15 m
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Sydney Northern Beaches

Long Reef Wall

The Cathedral – a peaked sandstone tunnel packed with pomfret – and Andy's Cave on a sponge-covered wall 35 minutes from Manly.

BoatUp to 24 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

MV Malabar wreck (Long Bay)

Massive swim-through diesel engine, propeller, rudder and anchors of a 107 m passenger liner in just 9–10 m, reachable from shore.

Shore or BoatUp to 10 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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Darwin Offshore & Artificial Reefs

Marchart 3

The 32 m ex-research vessel and prawn trawler that founded the Fenton Patches reef field in 1988 – upright, intact and heavily…

Boat (day trip)Up to 28 m
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Wollongong & Kiama

Martin Island

Winter fur seal encounters on a colourful sponge and gorgonian wall only 15 minutes from Port Kembla.

BoatUp to 30 m
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Merimbula

Merimbula Wharf

Easy shore dive with an exceptional critter list – sea dragons, seahorses, angel sharks and cuttlefish – beside an historic wharf.

ShoreUp to 16 m
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Narooma & Montague Island

Montague Island Seal Colony

Shallow, playful encounters with fur seals at the largest seal colony in NSW.

Boat (day trip)Up to 15 m
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Jervis Bay

Murrays Beach

Jervis Bay's most reliable shore dive – reef, small caves and seagrass with rays, groper and seahorses in Booderee National Park.

ShoreUp to 12 m
NSWYouDive mascot illustration; not a photograph of the siteShore/Rock Platform

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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Perth

North Mole & North Mole Barge

An upright, partly penetrable hopper barge in 8 m, reached by a pole trail from the North Mole, and the main sheltered shore…

ShoreUp to 8.5 m
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Coffs Harbour & Solitary Islands

North Solitary Island – Anemone Bay

Claimed to hold the densest population of anemones and clownfish on the Australian mainland coast, on the sheltered side of…

Boat (day trip)Up to 30 m
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Port Phillip Heads

North Wall Corner

The 90-degree corner of Lonsdale Wall: towering split faces on two sides dropping from 19 m to 66 m, with blue devils and the…

BoatUp to 66 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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Eden & Green Cape

Olive Cam

Boiler, engine and anchor of a WWII minesweeper-turned-trawler in shallow gullies south of Eden.

BoatUp to 9 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