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Shore/Rock PlatformSydney Northern Beaches
Freshwater (Harbord)
Sea dragons, sharks and an outer reef with 3.5 m walls off an ocean rock platform – the Northern Beaches' best and most demanding…
WallCocos (Keeling) Islands
Garden of Eden
A forest of gorgonian sea fans rising like trees from 20–28 m, with schools of big-eye trevally – dived only when the wind drops…
ReefWhitsundays & Bowen
Gary's Lagoon (Bait Reef)
Sheltered coral-walled inlet with a sandy floor, turtles and wobbegongs – Bait Reef's safe option for snorkellers and new divers.
Shore/Rock PlatformGold Coast
Gold Coast Seaway – South Wall (Sand Bypass Pipe)
Australia's best city shore dive: giant groupers, rays and 400+ species along a breakwater and sand bypass pipe, with easy stair…
ReefCairns
Gordon's Mooring (Flynn Reef)
A field of small bommies and swim-throughs with a shallow giant-clam garden and frequent turtles.
ReefHeron Island & Capricorn Group
Gorgonia Hole (Heron Island)
A maze of cracks and small caves hung with gorgonians, where turtles wedge themselves in to rest and painted crays hide.
ReefCairns
Green Island
The easiest reef diving from Cairns: guided beach dives on a national-park coral cay, with drift options to 21 m for certified…
IslandSouth West Rocks
Green Island (South West Rocks)
A close inshore island with a declared grey nurse shark critical habitat that rivals Fish Rock for shark numbers, in an easier,…
WreckHeron Island & Capricorn Group
HMCS Protector Wreck (Heron Island)
An 1884 colonial gunboat with Boxer Rebellion and WWI service, now a harbour breakwater and fish haven snorkelled at high tide.
ReefSunshine Coast
Hanging Rock
A 50 m overhanging wall carpeted in sun corals above a sandy trench, with some of the largest plate corals on the local reefs.
WallLady Elliot Island
Hiro's Cave (Lady Elliot Island)
A spectacular eastern wall with a 16 m cleaning station where mantas or silvertip sharks circle.
ReefSydney South & Botany Bay
Indian Point (Congwong Bay)
A 9–15 m wall cut by thirteen gutters with seadragons, red Indianfish and seahorses, a few hundred metres from Bare Island and…
Shore/Rock PlatformSydney South & Botany Bay
Inscription Point (Kurnell)
A one-way flood-tide drift past Sydney's best sponge gardens and up to twenty seadragons, finishing at the Monuments wall.
ReefSunshine Coast
Jew Shoal
Noosa's best dive: an 11 m solitary pinnacle and a cave-and-gutter system in sheltered Laguna Bay, with more than 100 nudibranch…
ReefTownsville & Magnetic Island
John Brewer Reef – Ocean Sentinels & Coral Gardens
Eight 2.2 m Ocean Sentinels sculptures of reef scientists and custodians in 5 m of water, plus a large sheltered lagoon with…
Cave/CavernTweed & 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…
ReefTweed & Byron Bay
Julian Rocks – Hugo's Trench
A pair of sheer-walled parallel trenches offering shelter from swell and some of the best macro life at Julian Rocks.
Pinnacle/BommieTweed & Byron Bay
Julian Rocks – The Needles
Julian Rocks' big-animal site: a summer leopard shark aggregation among towering bommies, plus regular manta rays and schooling…
ReefTweed & 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…
WreckRottnest Island
Lady Elizabeth Wreck
Substantial remains of an 1878 composite barque on clean sand in calm, clear water behind Dyer Island, with caves nearby.
Freshwater Lake/RiverAtherton Tablelands
Lake Eacham
A rainforest-fringed volcanic crater lake with sunken trees, turtles and submerged boats at 25 m – Queensland's classic altitude…
ReefNingaloo – Exmouth
Lakeside Sanctuary Zone
A calm, buoyed sanctuary-zone snorkel with turtles, rays and reef sharks just off the beach.
Pinnacle/BommieRibbon Reefs & Lizard Island
Lighthouse Bommie
The classic dwarf minke whale site in June–July, and a pinnacle packed with fish, turtles and sea snakes all year.
Pinnacle/BommieLady 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.