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Boat (day trip)Up to 40 m

Tasman Peninsula

Cape Hauy / The Candlestick

Diving beneath the Candlestick and Totem Pole – columnar dolerite walls in clean oceanic water.

Jetty/Pier

Limestone Coast

Cape Jaffa Jetty

Big stingrays visiting a working cray-boat jetty in the evenings – a sheltered option when the reef is blown out.

ShoreUp to 3 m

Boat (day trip)Up to 50 m

Tasman Peninsula

Cape Pillar

Sheer columnar walls under a 300 m cape at the edge of the Southern Ocean, with superb clarity.

Boat (day trip)Up to 30 m

Bruny Island & D'Entrecasteaux Channel

Cape Queen Elizabeth (Bruny Island)

Dolerite headland reef on North Bruny's Storm Bay coast, near The Neck.

Boat (day trip)Up to 40 m

Tasmania East Coast

Cape Sonnerat (Schouten Island)

Rated 10/10 by the regional guide: granite caverns at 30-40 m lit by a flue-like opening, with clouds of butterfly perch and…

Yorke Peninsula

Cape Spencer

Walls, undercuts and caves that tunnel right through Yorke Peninsula's southernmost point, below the Cape Spencer lighthouse.

BoatUp to 12 m

Boat (day trip)Up to 35 m

Tasman Peninsula

Cape Surville

Steep wall under Cape Surville with yellow anemone patches; a quieter alternative to the nearby Sisters.

Kangaroo Island

Cape Torrens

Deep drop-offs covered in gorgonians and zoanthids beneath South Australia's highest coastal cliffs.

BoatUp to 40 m

Eyre Peninsula

Cape Wiles Lagoon

A clear, calm lagoon on the wild Whalers Way coast with fur seals, car-sized boulders and a 50 m cave at 15 m.

BoatUp to 15 m

Kangaroo Island

Cape Willoughby

Current-swept reef below South Australia's oldest lighthouse (1852) at KI's eastern tip.

Shore or BoatUp to 20 m

Boat (day trip)Up to 20 m

Drift

Ningaloo – Coral Bay

Cardabia Passage

A reef passage north of Coral Bay where ocean water funnels through the reef.

Sunshine Coast

Castle Rock

A large rock overhang carpeted in orange coral at about 21 m, with crayfish, batfish and trevally.

BoatUp to 21 m

NSW

Shore/Rock Platform

Sydney Harbour

Castle Rock Beach / Grotto Point (Clontarf)

A hidden Clontarf cove below the Grotto Point lighthouse – boulders, kelp and tide-swept gutters at the mouth of Middle Harbour.

ShoreUp to 10 m

Shore or BoatDepth not recorded

Shore/Rock Platform

Ribbon Reefs & Lizard Island

Casuarina Beach (Lizard Island)

Snorkel with resident green turtles grazing in the shallows.

Boat (multi-day/liveaboard)Up to 40 m

Far Northern Reef & Torres Strait

Cat Reef

Remote fan-covered walls with pelagics beside Tijou Reef.

Boat (multi-day/liveaboard)Depth not recorded

Far Northern Reef & Torres Strait

Catchers Mitt (Tijou / Cat Reef)

Hard-coral gullies full of fish on the remote Tijou/Cat reefs.

NSW

Shore/Rock Platform

Wollongong & Kiama

Cathedral Rocks (Kiama Downs)

Snorkelling or diving around Kiama's famous basalt sea stacks on a rare flat day.

ShoreDepth not recorded

Boat (day trip)Depth not recorded

Port Douglas

Cathedrals (Opal Reef)

Opal's rarely visited 'Blue Lagoon' with a maze of cathedral-like swim-throughs.

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Boat (multi-day/liveaboard)Up to 25 m

Coral Sea

Cato Reef

A remote southern Coral Sea reef with giant bommies, flat reef at 10–15 m and 40 m-plus visibility.

NSW

Jetty/Pier

Eden & Green Cape

Cattle Bay (Cannery Wharf)

Guided macro and night dives around Eden's old cannery wharf.

ShoreUp to 9 m

Jetty/Pier

Eyre Peninsula

Ceduna Old Jetty

An easy shallow day or night dive in the last town before the Nullarbor, with critters in the old debris.

ShoreUp to 5 m

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Norfolk Island

Cemetery Bay

Quieter Kingston snorkel beside the convict cemetery; best at mid to high tide on calm days.

ShoreDepth not recorded

Boat (day trip)Up to 20 m

Townsville & Magnetic Island

Centipede Reef

Quiet mid-shelf reef near Wheeler with trevally schools and bommies on its exposed faces.

Boat (multi-day/liveaboard)Up to 20 m

Swain Reefs

Central Reef (Swain Reefs)

Shallow coral gardens suited to macro photography.