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675 dive sites matching “turtle”Across Australia
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Coffs Harbour & Solitary Islands

South Solitary Island – North Boulder Wall

A sheltered, boulder-covered wall on the lee side of the island with reliably high fish density — the easy, dependable South…

Boat (day trip)Up to 18 m
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Coffs Harbour & Solitary Islands

South Solitary Island – South Boulder Wall

Sheltered boulder wall with abundant reef fish, linking with North Boulder Wall for a longer drift along the island's lee side.

Boat (day trip)Up to 18 m
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Geraldton & Abrolhos Islands

South Tomi Wreck

A toothfish poacher caught after a 6,000 km naval chase, now an upright 57 m wreck with engine-room access in 25 m.

Boat (day trip)Up to 25 m
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Coffs Harbour & Solitary Islands

Split Solitary Island – Coral Corner

A rare, close overlap of kelp forest and plate coral growth in a single easy dive, illustrating the tropical/temperate transition…

Boat (day trip)Up to 18 m
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Coffs Harbour & Solitary Islands

Split Solitary Island – South Side Moorings

The closest and most reliably diveable island in the Solitary Islands Marine Park, with a rich, densely encrusted drop-off…

Boat (day trip)Up to 18 m
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Ningaloo – Coral Bay

Stefano

An 1875 wreck with one of WA's most remarkable survival stories.

BoatUp to 12 m
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Whitsundays & Bowen

Stepping Stones (Bait Reef)

A line of 18+ vertical-sided, flat-topped coral pinnacles with caves and channels, gorgonian-covered walls and superb snorkelling…

Boat (day trip)Up to 30 m
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Ribbon Reefs & Lizard Island

Steve's Bommie

A legendary fish-magnet pinnacle with schooling trevally and barracuda plus superb macro and a memorial plaque.

Boat (multi-day/liveaboard)Up to 35 m
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Cairns

Swimming Pools (Milln Reef)

Sheltered bommies on sand with big schools of diagonal-banded sweetlips and plenty of nudibranchs.

Boat (day trip)Up to 21 m
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Brisbane & Moreton Bay

Tangalooma Wrecks

Fifteen rusting dredges and barges scuttled 1963-84, many breaking the surface, with 100+ fish species in 1-12 m – Queensland's…

Shore or BoatUp to 12 m
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Lady Musgrave & Bunker Group

The Aquarium (Lady Musgrave Lagoon)

Step off the pontoon into a sheltered lagoon of turtle cleaning stations, giant clams and juvenile fish – ideal for first dives,…

Boat (day trip)Up to 10 m
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Lord Howe Island

The Arch (Lord Howe)

A swim-through arch made of coral – unique in NSW – with sweetlips inside and Galapagos sharks around.

Boat (day trip)Up to 30 m
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Lady Elliot Island

The Blowhole (Lady Elliot Island)

Swim through an L-shaped cave from 14 m to 22 m and watch silvertip sharks being cleaned outside.

Boat (day trip)Up to 22 m
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North Stradbroke Island

The Bowl (Flat Rock)

A coral-lined basin that runs from a 10 m rim to 34 m, with turtles, groupers and seasonal sharks.

Boat (day trip)Up to 34 m
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Sunshine Coast

The Caves (Gneerings)

A shallow 12 m ledge with overhangs and small swim-throughs – schools of surgeonfish, wobbegongs and ray cleaning stations; ideal…

BoatUp to 12 m
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Port Douglas

The Chapel (Agincourt Reef 4)

Swim-throughs, dense anemone fields with clownfish, and grey reef sharks on a compact patch reef.

Boat (day trip)Up to 18 m
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Ningaloo – Exmouth

The Labyrinth

A maze of limestone gutters and swim-throughs with a turtle cleaning station.

Boat (day trip)Up to 14 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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North Stradbroke Island

The Nursery (Flat Rock)

Shallow coral gardens on Flat Rock with turtles, nudibranchs and summer leopard sharks – the best introduction to Straddie diving.

Boat (day trip)Up to 20 m
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Brisbane & Moreton Bay

The Pines

A 500 m coffee-rock wall best dived as a drift on the incoming tide, packed with wobbegongs, turtles and schooling fish.

Boat (day trip)Up to 25 m
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Whitsundays & Bowen

The Pinnacles (Hook Island)

Near-solid shallow coral and a field of large bommies, with some of the best snorkelling in the Whitsundays.

Boat (day trip)Up to 20 m
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Cocos (Keeling) Islands

The Rip (Direction Island)

A fast, coral-lined drift channel from the ocean into the lagoon, full of sharks, humphead parrotfish and Napoleon wrasse, with a…

Shore or BoatUp to 8 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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Port Douglas

Three Sisters (Agincourt Reef 4)

Three coral bommies close to the mooring surrounded by huge fish schools and young grey reef sharks.

Boat (day trip)Up to 20 m