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Boat (multi-day/liveaboard)Up to 10 m

Lady Musgrave & Bunker Group

Llewellyn Reef – Trout Spot

A shallow coral garden on Llewellyn Reef ideal for a night dive from an anchored boat.

Shoalhaven Coast

Lobster Bay

Protected, usually clear shallow bay near Currarong – an easy snorkel or training dive.

ShoreUp to 6 m

Central Coast

Lobster Beach (Wagstaffe)

A quiet, bush-fringed estuary beach at the mouth of Brisbane Water with calm-water snorkelling.

ShoreUp to 6 m

Boat (day trip)Up to 24 m

Wreck

Tasmania North-East

Loch Finlas (Fosters Island Reef)

Rated 9/10: a relatively intact 1885 iron ship with a canted bow and counter stern at 19-24 m.

Boat (day trip)Up to 20 m

Huon & Far South

Lomas Point Reef

Boulder reef strewn with debris from the 1855 Katherine Sharer explosion.

Boat (day trip)Up to 25 m

Port Douglas

Long Bommie (Opal Reef)

Satellite bommie from 25 m where plate corals are recovering from cyclone damage.

Boat (day trip)Up to 30 m

Island

Esperance & Recherche Archipelago

Long Island (Recherche)

Caverns, swim-throughs and ridge-and-gutter reef in 20-30 m with big blue groper and queen snapper.

Boat (multi-day/liveaboard)Up to 15 m

Island

Geraldton & Abrolhos Islands

Long Island (Wallabi Group)

Tropical staghorn with temperate fish at the island where the Batavia mutineers were executed.

Jetty/Pier

Perth

Long Jetty (Rockingham)

A very shallow, sheltered jetty suited to children's snorkelling and supervised first dives.

ShoreUp to 4.5 m

Sydney Northern Beaches

Long Reef Aquatic Reserve (shore)

Tame blue groper and kelp gutters inside NSW's oldest aquatic reserve, from a sandy beach beneath the Long Reef headland.

ShoreUp to 12 m

Rottnest Island

Longreach Bay

A broad, calm north-coast bay close to the settlement with corals, tropical fish and occasional dolphins.

ShoreUp to 5 m

VIC

Port Phillip Heads

Lonsdale Rock

A kelp-topped rock at the mouth of The Rip whose canopy shows as an oily slick on the surface; a shallow, rarely dived pinnacle…

BoatUp to 15 m

Tasman Peninsula

Lookout Bluff – The Split

A shallow crevice-and-cave reef at the north end of Waterfall Bay, ideal for long, easy dives.

Shore or BoatUp to 9 m

Sunshine Coast

Lost Canyons

One of the lesser-documented named reef sites in the Mooloolaba operators' rotation – a chance to dive typical Gneering Shoals…

BoatDepth not recorded

Jetty/Pier

Whyalla & Upper Spencer Gulf

Louth Bay Jetty

An easy 4 m jetty and foreshore reef near Port Lincoln, with a deeper boulder reef to 15 m at the south end of the bay.

ShoreUp to 4 m

Tasmania North & North-West

Low Head Shore

An easy terrace reef below Australia's oldest pilot station, usable as a gentle tidal drift.

ShoreUp to 6 m

Boat (day trip)Up to 15 m

Whitsundays & Bowen

Luncheon Bay (Hook Island)

Sheltered northern Hook bay used as a quieter alternative to Manta Ray Bay, recovering from Cyclone Debbie.

Tasmania East Coast

Luther Point (Orford)

A shallow fringing reef that stays diveable in easterly weather.

ShoreUp to 4 m

EXT

Christmas Island

Lynnie's Bommie

A small coral bommie off Middle Beach, usually combined with the Middle Beach reef.

BoatUp to 25 m

Sunshine Coast

MKVI

One of the lesser-documented named reef sites in the Mooloolaba operators' rotation – a chance to dive typical Gneering Shoals…

BoatDepth not recorded

Boat (day trip)Up to 12 m

Wreck

Townsville & Magnetic Island

MV Reef Princess Wreck (Wheeler Reef)

Scant remains of the Reef Princess, a timber dive boat lost at Wheeler Reef in a 1981 storm – a footnote to Townsville dive…

Yorke Peninsula

Magazine Point

An easy shallow reef snorkel or drift just west of Point Turton, with a small sea cave to explore on land.

ShoreUp to 4 m

Ulladulla

Magic Reef (Ulladulla)

Sponge-covered offshore reef favoured by the local shop for macro photography.

BoatUp to 27 m

Boat (day trip)Up to 30 m

Esperance & Recherche Archipelago

Magistrates Rock

Rarely dived, swell-sculpted rock with undercut caverns and very clear water on calm days.