Welcome
INTRODUCTION
Australia’s great and diverse land is equally matched by its spectacular underwater environment that provides home to thousands of unique marine plants and animals and hundreds of shipwrecks.
The mainland coastline is nearly 36,000 kilometres (24,000 mi), and if you include the numerous off-shore islands Australia’s coastline is nearly 60,000 kilometres (40,000 mi). That’s a lot of diving!
50 Great Dives represents just a few of Australia’s very best, amazing and diverse snorkelling and scuba dive locations.
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 Click on Image for More Information. | Cairns Raine Island Turtles The largest green sea turtle nesting site in the world. |  Click on Image for More Information. | Lord Howe Island Ball’s Pyramid The world’s tallest volcanic stack. |  Click on Image for More Information. | Bicheno Magic Gardens The best temperate diving in the world! |  Click on Image for More Information. | Yanakie Wilsons Promontory Melburnians adventure destination of choice. |  Click on Image for More Information. | Mount Gambier Piccaninnie Ponds Home of the world famous ‘Chasm’. |  Click on Image for More Information. | Eucla Weebubbie Cave Home of Jeedara, the water serpent! |  Click on Image for More Information. | Darwin SS Mauna Loa One of many World War Two wrecks in Darwin Harbour. |
 Click on Image for More Information. | Cairns North Horn Shark Feed Sharks, sharks and more sharks! |  Click on Image for More Information. | Byron Bay Julian Rocks Over 1000 marine species. |  Click on Image for More Information. | Hobart Giant Kelp Forest Dense forests of fronds exceeding 40m (120’) in length. |  Click on Image for More Information. | Phillip Island The Pinnacle A spectacular underwater tower of granite. |  Click on Image for More Information. | Adelaide Rapid Bay Jetty The sea dragon capital of the world! |  Click on Image for More Information. | Esperance Sanko Harvest The largest shipwreck in Australia. | ||
 Click on Image for More Information. | Cairns Dwarf Minke Whales Gentle giants of the deep. |  Click on Image for More Information. | Coffs Harbour Solitary Islands Where tropical and temperate waters meet. |  Click on Image for More Information. | Melbourne Blairgowrie Marina Thousands of giant spider crabs! |  Click on Image for More Information. | Adelaide Aldinga Drop-Off Large, delicate, colourful gorgonian fans. |  Click on Image for More Information. | Albany Cheynes III Scuttled whale chaser. | ||||
 Click on Image for More Information. | Cairns Cod Hole World famous ‘mega’ fish experience. |  Click on Image for More Information. | South West Rocks Fish Rock Cave World famous sea cave. |  Click on Image for More Information. | Melbourne Burrunan Dolphins A unique species of friendly dolphin. |  Click on Image for More Information. | Adelaide Glenelg Dredge Scuttled bucket dredge and hopper barge. |  Click on Image for More Information. | Dunsborough Ex-HMAS Swan Australia’s first naval warship scuttled for divers. | ||||
 Click on Image for More Information. | Townsville Yongala Regarded by many as the best wreck dive in the world. |  Click on Image for More Information. | Nelson Bay Looking Glass Canyon walls and overhangs covered in marine life. |  Click on Image for More Information. | Melbourne Shortland Bluff Drift Exhilarating -two kilometres (1 mi) in just 30 minutes! |  Click on Image for More Information. | Edithburgh Edithburgh Jetty One of Australia’s best jetty dives! |  Click on Image for More Information. | Busselton Busselton Jetty The longest wooden jetty in the southern hemisphere! | ||||
| QUEENSLAND | NEW SOUTH WALES | TASMANIA | VICTORIA | SOUTH AUSTRALIA | WESTERN AUSTRALIA | NORTHERN TERRITORY | |||||||
 Click on Image for More Information. | Airlie Beach Bait Reef The Great Barrier Reef at its best. |  Click on Image for More Information. | Sydney Long Reef Wall Arguably Sydney’s best dive, certainly the fishiest! |  Click on Image for More Information. | Melbourne Lonsdale Wall Sensational underwater wall. |  Click on Image for More Information. | Port Lincoln Great White Shark Gage Dive Simply awesome! |  Click on Image for More Information. | Perth Rottnest Island Perth’s premier dive location. | ||||
 Click on Image for More Information. | Gladstone Heron Bommie World rated, one of Jacques Cousteau’s Top 10 Dives. |  Click on Image for More Information. | Sydney Bare Island A quintessential example of Sydney’s city diving. |  Click on Image for More Information. | Melbourne J5 Submarine World War One J Class submarine. |  Click on Image for More Information. | Lancelin Key Biscayne Spectacular sunken oil rig. | ||||||
 Click on Image for More Information. | Bundaberg The Blowhole Lady Elliot is one of many Great Barrier Reef islands. |  Click on Image for More Information. | Sydney/Canberra Jervis Bay ‘JB’ is a ‘Mecca’ for Sydney and Canberra divers. |  Click on Image for More Information. | Portland Lawrence Rocks Rock lobster, abalone, seals & much more! |  Click on Image for More Information. | Geraldton Abrolhos Islands Shipwreck, rape and murder! | ||||||
 Click on Image for More Information. | Noosa Wolf Rock Four volcanic pinnacles rising from 40m (120’). |  Click on Image for More Information. | Batemans Bay Dragon Rock Docile grey nurse sharks by the dozen! |  Click on Image for More Information. | Coral Bay Ningaloo Whale Sharks The ocean’s largest fish. | ||||||||
 Click on Image for More Information. | Brisbane John Curtain Artificial Reef A wreck potpourri including an old Brisbane tram! |  Click on Image for More Information. | Narooma Montague Island Seals Agile, playful and friendly! |  Click on Image for More Information. | Exmouth Navy Jetty Some say the best jetty dive in the world! | ||||||||
 Click on Image for More Information. | Brisbane Manta Ray Bommie Manta rays galore! |  Click on Image for More Information. | Merimbula SS Empire Gladstone One of around 12,000 World War II British Empire ships. |  Click on Image for More Information. | Broome Rowley Shoals Remote, unspoiled coral islands. |
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