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TAS

Tasmania East Coast

Cod Rock (Bicheno)

A quieter shore alternative to Waubs Bay with colourful zoanthids, for calm days only.

ShoreUp to 15 m

Boat (day trip)Up to 20 m

Albany & Great Southern

Coffin Island

Sea lion and fur seal colonies with caves, gutters and sponge gardens, a short boat run from Two Peoples Bay.

Sydney Harbour

Collins Flat Beach (Spring Cove)

A calm national-park cove with seagrass seahorses, a waterfall onto the sand and Sydney's mainland penguin colony – the quiet…

ShoreUp to 8 m

Wreck

Sydney Harbour

Colonist wreck (Sydney Harbour)

Relocated in 2013 in 20 m: the Muntz-metal outline and basalt cargo of an 1861 schooner sunk in an 1890 collision and later…

BoatUp to 20 m

Boat (day trip)Up to 40 m

QLD

Drift

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 30 m

Groote Eylandt

Connexion Island

A sheltered island reef off Alyangula with the clearer water and richer shallow coral of the Gulf of Carpentaria.

Jetty/Pier

Yorke Peninsula

Coobowie Jetty

A quiet, very shallow village jetty over seagrass – a gentle snorkel minutes from Edithburgh.

ShoreUp to 4 m

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

Perth

Coral Garden (Mindarie)

An offshore Mindarie reef with hard and soft corals at 14–21 m, rarely dived and with good fish life.

BoatUp to 21 m

Boat (multi-day/liveaboard)Up to 17 m

Geraldton & Abrolhos Islands

Coral Patches (Pelsaert Group)

Steep coral slopes of finger and plate coral inside the Pelsaert lagoon.

Yorke Peninsula

Corny Point

A wild, clear-water reef coast around the 1882 lighthouse at the peninsula's north-western tip – rarely dived.

Shore or BoatUp to 12 m

Boat (day trip)Up to 15 m

Margaret River & Augusta

Cosy Corner Offshore Reefs

Island-sheltered reefs with schools of bream, sweep and zebrafish, reached by boat from Hamelin Bay.

Perth

Cottesloe Pylon

A short snorkel from Cottesloe Beach to the heritage-listed 1936 shark-net pylon and the reef at its base.

ShoreUp to 4 m

TAS

Boat (day trip)Up to 25 m

Bruny Island & D'Entrecasteaux Channel

Courts Island

Remote island with sheer cliffs, sandy gullies and colourful sponges – one of the region's top-rated reef dives.

Perth

Cow Rocks (Marmion)

An inshore Marmion reef close to Hillarys with overhangs, lobsters and blue groper.

BoatDepth not recorded

QLD

Brisbane & Moreton Bay

Cowan Cowan

A quiet western Moreton foreshore beside the historic Fort Cowan Cowan, and the landmark for Curtin reef and The Pines.

Shore or BoatUp to 12 m

Margaret River & Augusta

Cowaramup Bay

Inshore reef and deeper offshore reefs with blue groper and kingfish at Gracetown, diveable on flat days.

Shore or BoatUp to 25 m

Jetty/Pier

Whyalla & Upper Spencer Gulf

Cowell Jetty

Shallow seagrass snorkel in sheltered Franklin Harbour, on a coast of easy 2-4 m reefs with eagle rays and Port Jackson sharks.

ShoreUp to 4 m

Perth

Crayfish Gully (Mindarie)

An offshore Mindarie reef with multiple ledges at 15–20 m, rarely dived and with good fish life.

BoatUp to 20 m

QLD

Boat (multi-day/liveaboard)Depth not recorded

Far Northern Reef & Torres Strait

Creech Reef

Shelf-edge reef with upwellings drawing pelagics, sharks and mantas.

TAS

Wall

Tasman Peninsula

Crescent Bay – Mt Brown Cliffs

Deep cliffs under Mount Brown with delicate sponges and anemones, in one of the peninsula's wildest bays.

Shore or BoatUp to 25 m

Freshwater Lake/River

Broome & Kimberley

Crocodile Cove (Lake Argyle)

Underwater encounters with timid freshwater crocodiles.

BoatUp to 10 m

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