Piers and jetties are some of Australia's best macro dives: leafy and weedy seadragons, seahorses, nudibranchs and octopus under the pylons, usually with easy entries and parking nearby.
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Wollongong & Kiama · NSW
Shallow, sheltered jetty dive with a resident group of grey nurse sharks and outstanding night diving.
Ulladulla · NSW
Easy shore dive among the remains of the old sawmill jetty with weedy sea dragons and macro life, diveable in southerly…
Eden & Green Cape · NSW
Guided macro and night dives around Eden's old cannery wharf.
Sydney Harbour · NSW
Seahorses, anglerfish and decorator crabs on every pile and net – Sydney's definitive muck and night dive, with a car…
Warship mooring chains, a naval wharf, two small wrecks and a Land Rover in 10–12 m – the structured outer half of…
A quiet pocket beach with seahorse pylons between Fairlight and Manly Cove – the easy-entry alternative to Fairlight…
Sydney South & Botany Bay · NSW
One of Sydney's best seahorse dives – up to 63 White's seahorses recorded on the swimming-enclosure net and seagrass –…
Merimbula · NSW
Easy shore dive with an exceptional critter list – sea dragons, seahorses, angel sharks and cuttlefish – beside an…
Narooma & Montague Island · NSW
Shallow, calm dive among the remains of the 1880s lighthouse jetty.
Seahorses on the wharf piles, eels in the mooring blocks and a sunken crane in a silty Vaucluse inlet under a…
Guided macro and night wharf diving in Eden's working harbour.
Bermagui & Tathra · NSW
Thousands of colourful gorgonians on the reef north of an 1878 ocean wharf – regarded as the best gorgonian display…
Sheltered harbour for training and night dives when the open coast is rough.
A quirky night muck dive with bioluminescence, big eels, crabs, a sunken station wagon and a 1960s bottle pile.
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