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