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160 dive sites matching “grey nurse”Across Australia
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Forster & Seal Rocks

The Pinnacle (Forster)

One of the largest reliable grey nurse shark aggregations on the NSW coast, with reported counts of 50 or more sharks around a…

BoatUp to 33 m
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Narooma & Montague Island

The Pinnacles (Montague Island)

Kelp-topped pinnacles dropping into a deep sponge garden at the northern tip of Montague Island.

Boat (day trip)Up to 32 m
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Batemans Bay

The Shotgun (Tollgate Islands)

Ride gentle surge through shallow swim-throughs at the Tollgate Islands, with grey nurse sharks passing.

BoatUp to 18 m
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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie

The Temple (Moon Island)

A huge sea cave with an 'altar' boulder where grey nurse sharks shelter through the winter - Swansea's premier dive.

BoatUp to 20 m
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North Stradbroke Island

Turtle Caves (Flat Rock)

Turtles resting in caves and under ledges at Flat Rock, with bull rays and mobulas cruising past.

Boat (day trip)Up to 30 m
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Rottnest Island

West End Reefs

Deep, current-swept spires and fissures at the far end of Rottnest with big fish, sharks and passing whales.

Boat (day trip)Up to 30 m
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Central Coast

5 Mile Reef (Terrigal)

A deep offshore reef with sea whip gardens and clearer blue water, well away from the crowds.

BoatUp to 38 m
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Brisbane & Moreton Bay

Alden's Cave (Flinders Reef)

A short, sunlit swim-through cave with an opening in its roof – an easy first cave experience on Brisbane's best coral reef.

Boat (day trip)Depth not recorded
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Sunshine Coast

Aussie's Reef (Gneering Shoals)

An easy, shallow Gneering Shoals reef with coral growth.

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Ballina & Evans Head

Ballina – Black Head / Lennox reef system

A little-dived stretch of reef between Ballina and Lennox Head with a seasonal chance of grey nurse sharks and virtually no diver…

BoatUp to 22 m
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Ballina & Evans Head

Ballina – Lennox Reef

A quieter northern extension of the Ballina reef system toward Lennox Point, seeing very little diver traffic.

BoatUp to 20 m
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Ballina & Evans Head

Ballina – Riordan's Shoal

A more distant, deeper offshore shoal north-east of Ballina, seeing very little diver traffic.

BoatUp to 28 m
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Port Macquarie & Camden Haven

Barry's Bay (Port Macquarie)

A varied, multi-gutter bay north of Port Macquarie popular for turtles, octopus, cuttlefish and wobbegongs.

BoatUp to 20 m
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Forster & Seal Rocks

Black Head Reef (Forster)

A flexible reef offering both shore and boat access off Blackhead Beach, useful as a no-charter-required option.

Shore or BoatUp to 18 m
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Wollongong & Kiama

Blue Devil Cave

Blue devilfish in the cave and one of Bass Point's best chances of a Sydney pygmy pipehorse.

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Sydney Northern Beaches

Blue Moon (North Head)

An outer North Head boulder-slope anchorage between Checkpoint Charlie and Runway, dropping to 28 m on the ocean face.

BoatUp to 28 m
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Tweed & Byron Bay

Broken Head reefs

A rarely dived inshore reef inside a protected coastal nature reserve south of Byron Bay — solitude on the rare flat day.

Shore or BoatUp to 16 m
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Ulladulla

Brush Island

Quiet island reef at the northern tip of Batemans Marine Park, with grey nurse shark habitat and the Northern Firth wreck…

BoatUp to 25 m
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Sunshine Coast

Butterflies

An easy, rolling reef with plenty of reef fish.

BoatDepth not recorded
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Sydney Northern Beaches

Checkpoint Charlie (North Head)

A sharp wall rolling into a boulder maze of gullies and swim-throughs, home to some of the biggest bull rays at North Head.

BoatUp to 26 m
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Brisbane & Moreton Bay

Comboyuro Point

A deep coffee-rock drift at the northern entrance to Moreton Bay with grey nurse sharks, estuary cod and pelagics.

Boat (day trip)Up to 40 m
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Tweed & Byron Bay

Cook Island – Southern Aquarium

The more exposed, current-affected southern flank of Cook Island, offering deeper ledges and better pelagic fish encounters than…

BoatUp to 24 m
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Port Macquarie & Camden Haven

Crowdy Head reefs

A little-documented cluster of headland reefs off a small fishing village, dived mainly by private boat.

Shore or BoatUp to 22 m
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Rainbow Beach

Double Island Point

The headland that anchors the Rainbow Beach dive area – its base reef is now part of the expanded Wolf Rock Marine National Park…

BoatUp to 18 m
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