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Shore/Rock PlatformTownsville & Magnetic Island
Alma Bay (Magnetic Island)
Easy beach entry to granite-boulder canyons, swim-throughs and coral gardens with 50+ nudibranch species, turtles and rays –…
WallCoral Sea
Amazing (Holmes Reef)
A shallow wall riddled with soft-coral-lined archways, swim-throughs and caves where sharks rest.
ReefNingaloo – Coral Bay
Asho's Gap
Grey reef sharks hovering to be cleaned at a coral outcrop — Coral Bay's must-do dive.
ReefLord Howe Island
Balls Pyramid – South East Rock
Easy-profile Balls Pyramid dive on a boulder and ledge shelf with lobster-filled overhangs and plate coral – long bottom times in…
Shore/Rock PlatformBundaberg & Agnes Water
Barolin Rocks
Queensland's best-known shore dive: a sheltered, shallow soft-coral reef with prolific nudibranchs, turtles and sea snakes,…
ReefMission Beach & Cassowary Coast
Beaver Reef
Mission Beach's main outer reef: an uncrowded green-zone reef with coral gardens, turtles and a shark-patrolled southern wall.
WreckNingaloo – Coral Bay
Benan
A large, clean iron barque wreck with anchors and masts on the reef.
Pinnacle/BommieForster & Seal Rocks
Bennett's Head Bommie
A shallow, isolated bommie with a small cave, excellent visibility and an unusually dense and varied small-scale marine life list.
IslandForster & Seal Rocks
Big Seal Rock
A major grey nurse shark aggregation site — the Eastern Gutter has recorded more than 40 sharks at once — with a genuine…
ReefNingaloo – Exmouth
Blizzard Ridge
Lighthouse Bay's standout site: a simple reef crack swarming with fish, with turtles, sharks and a manta cleaning station.
ReefWhitsundays & Bowen
Blue Pearl Bay (Hayman Island)
Sheltered, easy fringing reef on Hayman Island with friendly fish, recovering coral and the Ngaro trail Maori Wrasse sculpture.
ReefHeron Island & Capricorn Group
Blue Pools (Heron Island)
Shallow gutters and a sheltered Olympic-pool-sized hollow with resting turtles, wobbegongs and patrolling whitetips.
Pinnacle/BommieNorth Stradbroke Island
Boat Rock
An exposed spire off Queensland's easternmost point with colourful caverns and schools of big fish.
ReefCocos (Keeling) Islands
Broccoli Patch
Easy shallow coral garden to 10 m with a sandy floor – a perfect buoyancy-practice and snorkel site, often with turtles and…
ReefPort Stephens
Broughton Island – Shark Gutters
Broughton Island's benchmark grey nurse shark dive — a varied gutter, kelp and amphitheatre system anchored at 14 m, best…
Shore/Rock PlatformBundaberg & Agnes Water
Burkitt's Reef
The easy-entry Bargara shore dive: walk off the beach onto a shallow soft-coral reef with wobbegongs, sea snakes and occasional…
ReefCocos (Keeling) Islands
Cabbage Patch
A hillside of golden cabbage coral 6–20 m across, glowing in sunlight and swarming with thousands of anthias and chromis; garden…
ReefCocos (Keeling) Islands
Cannons
Old cannons among Porites corals on sand, with garden eels and gobies – and a chance of dugong, dolphins and mantas.
Aircraft WreckCocos (Keeling) Islands
Catalina JX435 Wreck
Engines, propellers and a 600 m debris trail from a RAF Catalina that crashed landing in June 1945 – a shallow dive and a war…
Pinnacle/BommieCairns
Cathedral (Thetford Reef)
Cathedral-like gaps and swim-throughs between tall bommies on bright sand, with an outer gorgonian bommie to 30 m.
WreckNingaloo – Coral Bay
Chofuku Maru
The largest wreck on Ningaloo: propeller, 40 m shaft, engine, boilers and bow on the reef.
Pinnacle/BommieCairns
City Hall (Moore Reef)
A pinnacle with ten-plus swim-throughs and a resident population of 18 turtles, guided from the Sunlover pontoon.
ReefRibbon Reefs & Lizard Island
Clam Gardens
Around 14 giant clams up to 2 m long in bright, shallow coral gardens.
ReefRibbon Reefs & Lizard Island
Clam Gardens (Lizard Island)
Giant clams up to 2 m long in shallow water a short swim from the beach.