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437 dive sites matching “groper”Across Australia
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Norfolk Island

Fireplace

Distinctive rock formations with coral on the eastern side of Duncombe Bay.

Shore or BoatUp to 20 m
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South West Rocks

Fish Rock – Land of Giants

A rare, conditions-dependent long circuit past giant groper, dense bannerfish schools and multiple turtle species along the…

BoatUp to 40 m
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South West Rocks

Fish Rock – The Wall

A sheer 40 m wall with dense sponge growth, hidden caves and some of Fish Rock's largest resident fish — groper and black cod.

BoatUp to 40 m
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Sydney South & Botany Bay

Flat Rock (South Bondi)

Three caves under the Bondi rock platform, usually with resident wobbegongs, on an easy 6–12 m dive.

ShoreUp to 12 m
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Albany & Great Southern

Frenchman Bay & Whaling Cove

Clear, sheltered granite coves beside Australia's last whaling station, with buried whaling-era wrecks.

ShoreUp to 8 m
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Batemans Bay

Garden Bay (Malua Bay)

Easy beach dive with a sand patch for training and broken reef that comes alive at night.

ShoreUp to 10 m
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East Arnhem Land & Gove

Gove Town Wharf

Pylons crowded with nudibranchs, flatworms, decorator crabs and feather stars, with big schools of fish under the wharf – Gove's…

Shore or BoatUp to 16 m
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Jervis Bay

Green Patch

Calm, family-friendly beach with octopus and squid around the rock platforms, beside a national park campground.

ShoreDepth not recorded
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Eyre Peninsula

Grindal Island – Sea Lions

An alternative sea lion swim venue in Lincoln National Park, with boulder bommies and swim-throughs on its south-side reefs.

Boat (day trip)Up to 20 m
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Kalbarri & Shark Bay

Gudrun Wreck (Cape Peron)

A rarely dived 1901 wreck in a Shark Bay sanctuary zone, rich with groper and lionfish.

Boat (day trip)Up to 6 m
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Kangaroo Island

Hanson Bay

A wild south-coast bay with salmon, trevally and big kelp – diveable only in rare calms.

ShoreUp to 10 m
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Merimbula

Haycock Point

Haystack Rock bommie and reef beside NSW's largest remaining wreck.

BoatUp to 18 m
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Yorke Peninsula

Haystack Island

Towering, bird-covered island with seal-visited ledges and big blue groper – usually dived with the famous Haystack Reef wall…

BoatUp to 15 m
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Yorke Peninsula

Haystack Reef

A kilometre-long wall from 22 m to 10 m, riddled with caves and swim-throughs and carpeted in red, yellow and orange sponges –…

BoatUp to 22 m
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Bundaberg & Agnes Water

Hoffman's Rocks

'Nudibranch Park' – the Woongarra Coast's richest macro site, with soft-coral bommies, a gentle current that brings in eagle…

ShoreUp to 12 m
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Ulladulla

Home Bommie (Ulladulla)

Close-to-harbour bommie with a sponge-covered double-ledged wall, small caves and occasional visiting seals.

BoatUp to 26 m
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Eyre Peninsula

Hopkins Island – Australian Sea Lions

Playful, endangered Australian sea lions spinning around snorkellers in a clear, shallow cove, plus a 30 m-to-4 m pinnacle for…

Boat (day trip)Up to 30 m
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Jervis Bay

Hyams Beach

Parallel reef ledges at 8–10 m with wobbegongs, a short swim from the famous white sand of Hyams Beach.

ShoreUp to 10 m
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Batemans Bay

Jimmies Island

Easy island reef inside the bay with gutters, swim-throughs and weedy sea dragons.

BoatUp to 18 m
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Norfolk Island

Johnnystone Rock

Pinnacle from 2 m to 30 m with caverns, swim-throughs and enveloping coral.

Boat (day trip)Up to 30 m
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Bundaberg & Agnes Water

Karma Wreck

An intact, upright 42 m barge in 27 m with an open hold, crane and two-level bridge, guarded by giant estuary cod and schools of…

BoatUp to 27 m
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Darwin Harbour

Kay Lee

An intact, upright steel fishing boat in 14 m with a resident grouper around 1.8 m long.

Boat (day trip)Up to 14 m
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Bermagui & Tathra

Kianinny Bay

Boulder slope from a sheltered bay to sand at 16 m, beside Tathra's boat ramp.

ShoreUp to 18 m
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Ningaloo – Exmouth

King Reef (Exmouth Artificial Reef)

Australia's largest artificial reef at the time of deployment (2018): steel towers up to 10 m high rising from 17 m of sand.

BoatUp to 17 m