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437 dive sites matching “groper”Across Australia
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Narooma & Montague Island

Lighthouse Bay (Montague Island)

Sea cave, swim-throughs and dramatic rock formations in a bay sheltered from northerlies.

Boat (day trip)Up to 16 m
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Jervis Bay

Longnose Point

Reliable, shallow, sheltered inner-bay reef for northerly weather.

BoatUp to 22 m
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Norfolk Island

Longnose Reef

Coral-rich wall to 30 m with a shallow inshore reef for the second half of the dive.

Boat (day trip)Up to 30 m
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Sunshine Coast

Magic Mountain

The Sunshine Coast's most complex reef topography: a maze of gullies, ravines, swim-throughs and pinnacles to 25 m on the Outer…

BoatUp to 25 m
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Darwin Harbour

Mandorah Queen

A Cyclone Tracy ferry lost with three crew, now almost buried in sand but still a magnet for big fish.

Boat (day trip)Up to 21 m
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Sydney Northern Beaches

Manly Beach (South Steyne – Queenscliff)

The beach where a southern right whale and calf rested within 200 m of the sand in 1993 – an open surf beach with reef only at…

ShoreUp to 8 m
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Eyre Peninsula

Memory Cove

A sheltered wilderness cove with a granite fringe and fish nursery, in one of Lincoln National Park's most beautiful settings.

Shore or BoatUp to 10 m
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Albany & Great Southern

Michaelmas Island Eastern End & Fingers

Big gorgonian fans and black coral on a granite wall, granite fingers to 30 m, and the surge-driven 'Grinding Rock' caves.

Boat (day trip)Up to 30 m
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Albany & Great Southern

Michaelmas Reef

Broad, shallow limestone reef with kelp tops and sponge-lined ledges – a macro photographer's site in the middle of the sound.

Boat (day trip)Up to 18 m
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Sydney Harbour

Middle Head (Cobblers Beach and Obelisk Beach)

Unvisited boulder reef, sponge gardens and a small wreck around a national-park headland between the two harbours, reached from…

ShoreUp to 12 m
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Pilbara & Dampier

Montebello Islands – North West Island Drop-off

A 30 m gorgonian-covered drop-off with groper and sharks on the remote Montebellos.

Boat (multi-day/liveaboard)Up to 30 m
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Batemans Bay

Mosquito Bay (Lilli Pilli)

Sheltered, easy shore dive and snorkel with big black stingrays, opposite Black Rock.

ShoreUp to 12 m
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Coffs Harbour & Solitary Islands

Mutton Bird Island (Coffs Harbour)

An easy, boat-free island shore dive right at the end of Coffs Harbour's breakwall, with turtles, groper and good macro life on…

Shore or BoatUp to 15 m
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Yorke Peninsula

Mylor Star Wreck

The youngest wreck on the Investigator Strait trail, a 1982 steel fishing boat half-buried under Althorpe Island's exposed…

Boat (day trip)Up to 15 m
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Narooma & Montague Island

Mystery Bay

Coves facing different directions give a sheltered snorkel or shore dive in most weathers, with a notable variety of kelp.

ShoreUp to 10 m
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Darwin Harbour

NR Diemen

Upright, intact Cyclone Tracy trawler in 12 m with some of the harbour's best fish life - Darwin's best beginner wreck.

Boat (day trip)Up to 12 m
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Narooma & Montague Island

Narooma Bar Beach

Sheltered, easy snorkel and dive with seahorses on the swimming net, diveable in almost any weather.

ShoreUp to 6 m
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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie

New Arch (Moon Island)

A large arch over a narrow gutter at 24 m, surrounded by colourful gutters south of Moon Island.

BoatUp to 24 m
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Tweed & Byron Bay

Nine Mile Reef

One of the region's best-known winter grey nurse shark aggregation sites, in a natural amphitheatre nicknamed the Shark Pit, 15…

Boat (day trip)Up to 30 m
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Ulladulla

North Bommie (Ulladulla)

Big schools of yellowtail and pomfrets around boulders and canyons five minutes from the harbour, plus The Penthouse cave.

BoatUp to 22 m
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Sydney Northern Beaches

North Curl Curl

Overhangs, swim-throughs and a sponge-lined sand line at 18–20 m off a rock platform on the Curl Curl headland – exposed,…

ShoreUp to 20 m
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Sydney Northern Beaches

North Head Sponge Gardens

Continuous sponge and soft-coral mosaic on a sheltered boulder slope, reliably diveable and reliably colourful – Manly's standard…

BoatUp to 26 m
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Albany & Great Southern

North Michaelmas Island

Sheltered granite walls and small caves with gorgonians and plate corals, diveable in most winds, next door to the Cheynes III…

Boat (day trip)Up to 18 m
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Rottnest Island

North Point Reef

A narrow limestone ravine 8 m deep, lit by shafts of sunlight, cutting through an offshore mound at 18-26 m.

Boat (day trip)Up to 26 m