FIND YOUR NEXT ADVENTURE
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ReefChristmas Island
North West Point
Sandy reef ledges with sleeping reef sharks and dense schools – the gentler companion dive to Perpendicular Wall.
IslandCoffs Harbour & Solitary Islands
North West Solitary Island
The best hard-coral gardens in the Solitary Islands Marine Park with regular summer manta ray sightings, in a quieter,…
WreckYorke Peninsula
Notre Dame d'Arvor Wreck
Burnt remains of a French grain barque that ran aground in 1920 – a shallow, poignant snorkel on the Wardang trail.
Shore/Rock PlatformCairns
Nudey Beach (Fitzroy Island)
A secluded coral-rubble beach with fringing reef around the headland, reached by a rainforest walk.
Kelp ForestTasman Peninsula
O'Hara Bluff Kelp Forest
One of the remnant giant kelp areas on the Tasman Peninsula and a focus of kelp restoration; seals often play in the canopy.
Shore/Rock PlatformSydney Harbour
Obelisk Beach (Middle Head south)
A sheltered sand-and-seagrass beach dive that becomes Middle Head's sponge gardens 450 m east along the sand line.
ReefBatemans Bay
Occy Point (Tollgate Islands)
Octopus dens at the base of sheltered bommies – a reliable dive in most conditions.
Shore/Rock PlatformShipwreck Coast & Warrnambool
Ocean Drive & Pea Soup, Port Fairy
Port Fairy's basalt shore reef with a reputation as one of the best night dives in western Victoria – octopus and dumpling squid…
Shore/Rock PlatformShipwreck Coast & Warrnambool
Old Aquarium (Breakwater Rock)
Rugged crevices, overhangs and swim-throughs with boarfish and Port Jackson sharks on the ocean side of the breakwater, 100 m…
Pinnacle/BommiePort Macquarie & Camden Haven
Old Faithful (Camden Haven)
A pinnacle with a large basal cave and sponge garden supporting the rare eastern blue devil fish — one of the better macro dives…
Shore/Rock PlatformLord Howe Island
Old Settlement Beach
Snorkel with grazing green turtles in shallow water a few metres from the sand.
ReefCapricorn Coast & Keppel Islands
Olive Point (Middle Island)
Shallow coral gardens where curious olive sea snakes are almost guaranteed.
Cave/CavernNullarbor Caves
Olwolgin Cave
Australia's longest known underwater cave – over 11 km of shallow phreatic passage on the Roe Plain.
ReefCapricorn Coast & Keppel Islands
One Bum Beach (Barren Island)
An easy, sheltered fringing reef on Barren Island – long, shallow bottom times in clearer outer-bay water.
ReefSydney South & Botany Bay
Oporto Reef (Jibbon)
A large low overhang and small tunnel on the northern edge of the Jibbon reef system, with big kingfish.
Pinnacle/BommieTownsville & Magnetic Island
Orchard Rocks (Magnetic Island)
Stacked granite boulders with swim-throughs, ledges and cracks, and more fish than the island's bays.
WallTownsville & Magnetic Island
Orpheus Island – Iris Point
Channel-facing wall at Orpheus's northern tip with Queensland grouper, grey reef and leopard sharks.
ReefTownsville & Magnetic Island
Orpheus–Pelorus Channel (Ray's Lump & Western Edge)
Ray's Lump – two tennis-court-sized coral outcrops mid-channel, packed with fusiliers, trout and resident blacktips; brain-coral…
ReefNingaloo – Exmouth
Osprey Bay
Calm bay with resident turtles.
Pinnacle/BommieCentral Coast
Outer Bommies (Norah Head)
Deep, solid bommie structure at 26-32 m offering genuine deep-reef diving beyond the shallower Inner Bommies.
WallPort Phillip Heads
Outer Corsair Wall
The outermost Nepean-side wall: ledges, caves and drop-offs from a 10 m kelp top to 65 m facing Bass Strait, with the clearest…
ReefSunshine Coast
Outer Gneerings
Deeper, clearer and fishier than the inner reef: boulders and outcrops in 15-25 m with winter pelagics.
Pinnacle/BommieCapricorn Coast & Keppel Islands
Outer Rock (Keppels)
An isolated outer rock with gutters, coral gardens, Maori wrasse and winter humpbacks.
WreckNewcastle & Lake Macquarie
PS Commodore wreck
A scuttled 1878 paddlewheel tug with the remains of a paddlewheel still recognisable in 36 m.