Western Australia
Diving in Ningaloo – Coral Bay
Coral Bay, at the southern end of Ningaloo, has manta rays year-round on the Bateman Bay cleaning stations, a shore snorkel over hard coral at Bill's Bay, and boat dives to the Asho's Gap grey reef shark cleaning station and the outer reef walls. Whale sharks and humpbacks pass in season.
Dive sites in this region
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Asho's Gap
Grey reef sharks hovering to be cleaned at a coral outcrop — Coral Bay's must-do dive.
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Benan
A large, clean iron barque wreck with anchors and masts on the reef.
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Chofuku Maru
The largest wreck on Ningaloo: propeller, 40 m shaft, engine, boilers and bow on the reef.
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Purdy Point
An easy, no-boat drift over staghorn and cabbage coral straight back to town.
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Rapid
One of WA's oldest wrecks, once carpeted with Spanish silver coins.
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SS Fin
A whale chaser's boiler and engine above water beside a collapsed lighthouse.
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Stefano
An 1875 wreck with one of WA's most remarkable survival stories.
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Zvir
An upright propeller and rudder at the end of a 120 m wreck trail.
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23rd Parallel
Coral Bay's deepest regular outer-reef dive, on the Tropic of Capricorn.
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Ayers Rock (Coral Bay)
A 5 m-tall coral bommie that survived the 2022 coral die-off in Bill's Bay.
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Bill's Bay Coral Gardens
Coral gardens a few fin kicks from Coral Bay's main beach.
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Coral Bay Manta Ray Swim (Bateman Bay)
Year-round snorkelling with WA's largest manta population, located by spotter plane.
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Lottie's Lagoon
Coral Bay's macro and critter site, shallow and calm.
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Paradise Beach Drift
A 1.8 km beginner drift ending back in Bill's Bay.
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Point Maud Manta Cleaning Station
Coral Bay's manta cleaning area, with WA's largest resident manta population.
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The Elbow
A manta cleaning station at a bend in the outer reef.
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Blue Maze
An easy maze of coral heads and sand channels.
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Cardabia Passage
A reef passage north of Coral Bay where ocean water funnels through the reef.
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Maud's Landing
Historic 1890s port site and turtle rookery north of Coral Bay.
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The Canyons (Coral Bay)
Spur-and-groove canyons on the outer reef near Coral Bay.
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