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Sydney South & Botany Bay

The Cutting (Royal National Park)

A shore crevice continuing underwater into a vertical 17–10 m step, big boulders and a resident large black ray.

BoatUp to 22 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

The Gap (South Head)

Room-sized boulders, caves and swim-throughs directly under The Gap cliffs, with schooling kingfish and a sheltered aspect in…

BoatUp to 23 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

The Gullies / Underwater Wilderness

A 3–5 m wide north–south gully, swim-throughs and 'The Marble' – a giant boulder that rolls in its rock cauldron – with hundreds…

BoatUp to 22 m
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Sydney 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…

ShoreUp to 22 m
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Sydney 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…

Shore or BoatUp to 22 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 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.

BoatUp to 28 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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Sydney 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…

BoatUp to 27 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

The Wanderers (Bate Bay)

An immense deep reef of walls, swim-throughs and sea-whip gardens 5 km off Cronulla, named for its wandering anemones.

BoatUp to 46 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Tumbledowns (Royal National Park)

Canyons, swim-throughs and huge boulders just south of Barrens Hut, with dozens of Port Jackson sharks and fiddler rays in the…

BoatUp to 24 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Voodoo (Kurnell)

Some of Sydney's densest gorgonian and sea-whip growth on a reef sloping to 28 m, with 20 m+ visibility most days.

BoatUp to 28 m
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Sydney Harbour

Watsons Bay Pool

Seahorses, pineapplefish and pygmy leatherjackets among the bars of a Watsons Bay swimming pool – a foolproof harbour night dive…

ShoreUp to 6 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Wattamolla Point (Royal National Park)

One of the most colourful sponge gardens south of Sydney, with thousands of silver sweep and nannygai off Wattamolla's northern…

BoatUp to 27 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Wedding Cake Island (North West)

Stepped ledges, gullies and sponge gardens on the sheltered side of Coogee's island; the operators' southerly-swell option.

BoatUp to 20 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Wedding Cake Island (South East)

Coogee's island: a 15 m wall with caves and a 22 m outer ledge under blankets of sponge, with big luderick schools in the…

BoatUp to 22 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Whale Watching Rockfall (Cape Solander)

Swim-through caves, a sheer wall and unusual bathtub-shaped holes in the rock below an obvious cliff rockfall at Cape Solander.

BoatUp to 26 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Windy Point (Cronulla)

Convoluted kelp reef with swim-throughs and a cave, plenty of sea dragons and rays, and an optional drift to Oak Park.

ShoreUp to 12 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Xanadu Reef (Kurnell)

A clean north–south wall from 28 to 33 m with pygmy pipehorses and pomfret, 350 m from Voodoo.

BoatUp to 37 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Yellow Rock (Malabar)

A 15 m crack full of dumped cars, caves and swim-throughs, and a sponge-covered 24 m wall beneath Australia's deadliest…

BoatUp to 26 m
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Sydney Northern Beaches

Adamson Sponge Gardens

The densest sponge gardens on North Head, on the reef where the clipper Catherine Adamson was lost in 1857.

BoatUp to 24 m
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Sydney Northern Beaches

Apollo Barge wreck

A fully intact 60 m hopper barge at 47 m with an enterable engine room and holds full of jewfish and trumpeter.

BoatUp to 47 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Bare Island – Bombora

Giant snapper and schooling kingfish under the overhangs of a lonely bommie 250 m south of Bare Island – a navigation challenge…

ShoreUp to 14 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Bare Island – Not So Deep Wall

The intermediate step between Bare Island Right and the Deep Wall – a boulder wall at 14–16 m leading to Sea Horse Corner,…

ShoreUp to 16 m