Seal & Sea Lion Dives in South Australia

Fur seal colonies from Montague Island to Tasmania and the Prom, and Australian sea lions at Port Lincoln, Baird Bay, Jurien Bay and Kangaroo Island. Young animals will spin around divers for a whole dive; give the bulls room.

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IslandMax 22 m

Neptune Islands – Great White Shark Cage Diving

Eyre Peninsula · SA

Australia's only licensed great white shark cage diving, beside the country's largest fur seal colony – surface cages…

Advanced Open WaterBeginner

Jetty/PierMax 10 mShore

Rapid Bay Jetty

Fleurieu Peninsula & Victor Harbor · SA

South Australia's signature leafy seadragon site, entered by an easy staircase from the new jetty into shallow seagrass…

Open WaterBeginner

IslandMax 4 m

Baird Bay – Sea Lions and Dolphins

Eyre Peninsula · SA

Snorkel with endangered Australian sea lions at Jones Island and a resident dolphin pod in chest-deep water – one of…

Snorkel/AnyBeginner

IslandMax 30 m

Hopkins Island – Australian Sea Lions

Eyre Peninsula · SA

Playful, endangered Australian sea lions spinning around snorkellers in a clear, shallow cove, plus a 30 m-to-4 m…

Advanced Open WaterBeginner

Shore/Rock PlatformMax 18 mShore

The Bluff (Rosetta Head)

Fleurieu Peninsula & Victor Harbor · SA

Arguably the most reliable leafy seadragon dive in South Australia, among stacked granite boulders below a historic…

Open WaterIntermediate

IslandMax 40 m

Althorpe Island

Yorke Peninsula · SA

Remote island with 50+ sites, 20 m walls, seal colonies, big blue groper and historic wrecks at the mouth of Spencer…

Deep/Advanced + experienceAdvanced

ReefMax 12 mShore

Cape Banks – Carpenter Rocks

Limestone Coast · SA

Prolific kelp-reef life on the rugged lobster coast around Cape Banks lighthouse and the Admella story.

Advanced Open WaterAdvanced

ReefDepth not published

Cape du Couedic – Admirals Arch

Kangaroo Island · SA

A fur seal colony under a sculpted sea arch – a land-based wildlife highlight, not a dive.

Deep/Advanced + experienceExpert/Technical

WallMax 12 m

Cape Spencer

Yorke Peninsula · SA

Walls, undercuts and caves that tunnel right through Yorke Peninsula's southernmost point, below the Cape Spencer…

Advanced Open WaterAdvanced

WallMax 40 m

Cape Torrens

Kangaroo Island · SA

Deep drop-offs covered in gorgonians and zoanthids beneath South Australia's highest coastal cliffs.

Deep/Advanced + experienceAdvanced

ReefMax 15 m

Cape Wiles Lagoon

Eyre Peninsula · SA

A clear, calm lagoon on the wild Whalers Way coast with fur seals, car-sized boulders and a 50 m cave at 15 m.

Advanced Open WaterIntermediate

ReefMax 20 mShore

Cape Willoughby

Kangaroo Island · SA

Current-swept reef below South Australia's oldest lighthouse (1852) at KI's eastern tip.

Advanced Open WaterAdvanced

Shore/Rock PlatformMax 12 mShore

Corny Point

Yorke Peninsula · SA

A wild, clear-water reef coast around the 1882 lighthouse at the peninsula's north-western tip – rarely dived.

Advanced Open WaterIntermediate

IslandDepth not published

Dangerous Reef

Eyre Peninsula · SA

The historic white shark cage-diving and filming site of the 1970s, now a protected pinniped breeding colony with no…

Snorkel/AnyAdvanced

WreckMax 2 mShore

Ethel Wreck

Yorke Peninsula · SA

South Australia's most photographed wreck: the iron ribs of an 1876 barque rising from the sand of a wild Innes surf…

Snorkel/AnyBeginner

IslandDepth not publishedArea view

Godfrey Islands (Robe)

Limestone Coast · SA

Seals and sheltered reef diving in the lee of small islands off Robe.

Open WaterIntermediate

IslandMax 15 mShore

Granite Island

Fleurieu Peninsula & Victor Harbor · SA

Granite boulders sloping to 15 m on the exposed southern side of Victor Harbor's causeway-linked island.

Open WaterIntermediate

Jetty/PierMax 6 mShore

Granite Island Jetty & Breakwater

Fleurieu Peninsula & Victor Harbor · SA

A sheltered, shallow fallback dive at Victor Harbor when southerly swell closes the open sites.

Open WaterBeginner

IslandMax 20 m

Grindal Island – Sea Lions

Eyre Peninsula · SA

An alternative sea lion swim venue in Lincoln National Park, with boulder bommies and swim-throughs on its south-side…

Advanced Open WaterIntermediate

IslandMax 15 m

Haystack Island

Yorke Peninsula · SA

Towering, bird-covered island with seal-visited ledges and big blue groper – usually dived with the famous Haystack…

Advanced Open WaterAdvanced

WallMax 22 m

Haystack Reef

Yorke Peninsula · SA

A kilometre-long wall from 22 m to 10 m, riddled with caves and swim-throughs and carpeted in red, yellow and orange…

Advanced Open WaterAdvanced

IslandMax 5 mArea view

Langton Island Sea Lions

Eyre Peninsula · SA

Uncrowded shallow-water swims with Australian sea lions in the Sir Joseph Banks Group.

Snorkel/AnyBeginner

IslandMax 15 m

Lewis Island

Eyre Peninsula · SA

A seal colony dive with colourful bommies off the south-west tip, in the tidal channels of Thorny Passage.

Advanced Open WaterIntermediate

WreckMax 15 m

Mylor Star Wreck

Yorke Peninsula · SA

The youngest wreck on the Investigator Strait trail, a 1982 steel fishing boat half-buried under Althorpe Island's…

Advanced Open WaterAdvanced

IslandMax 30 m

Pearson Island

Eyre Peninsula · SA

Granite blocks dropping beyond 30 m in exceptionally clear water at one of SA's most remote islands, with harlequin…

Deep/Advanced + experienceAdvanced

ReefMax 12 mShore

Point Sir Isaac

Eyre Peninsula · SA

Big blue groper on every dive at the remote tip of Coffin Bay Peninsula – reached by a classic 4WD track.

Advanced Open WaterAdvanced

WallMax 12 m

Rapid Head

Fleurieu Peninsula & Victor Harbor · SA

A boat-only wall and reef in a sanctuary zone with leafy seadragons, crayfish and visits from a local seal colony.

Open WaterIntermediate

ReefMax 15 m

Seal Cove (Althorpe Island)

Yorke Peninsula · SA

A narrow cove where more than 150 diver-habituated seals play around divers, with two huge friendly blue groper.

Advanced Open WaterIntermediate

IslandMax 25 m

Seal Island (Seal Rocks)

Fleurieu Peninsula & Victor Harbor · SA

Huge granite boulders to 25 m around an isolated rock in Encounter Bay, draped in gorgonians and zoanthids.

Advanced Open WaterAdvanced

WreckMax 15 m

SS Pareora Wreck

Yorke Peninsula · SA

Boiler, engine, anchor and windlass of a 1919 zinc-laden steamer that took 11 lives, lying in a reef gully on remote…

Advanced Open WaterAdvanced

Shore/Rock PlatformMax 12 mShore

The Blowhole (Deep Creek)

Fleurieu Peninsula & Victor Harbor · SA

An unspoilt, rarely dived rocky coast in Deep Creek Conservation Park, teeming with crayfish, seals and seadragons.

Advanced Open WaterAdvanced

IslandMax 30 m

The Pages

Kangaroo Island · SA

Pristine walls and big fish schools around sea lion islets in the middle of Backstairs Passage.

Deep/Advanced + experienceAdvanced

IslandMax 20 m

Topgallant Island

Eyre Peninsula · SA

Rarely dived walls and gutters to 20 m in clear Bight water off Elliston.

Advanced Open WaterAdvanced

Jetty/PierMax 9 mShore

Vivonne Bay Jetty

Kangaroo Island · SA

The most sheltered corner of the south coast – jetty and reef towards Point Ellen in clear Southern Ocean water.

Open WaterIntermediate

IslandMax 50 m

Wedge Island

Yorke Peninsula · SA

Remote island with 150 m cliffs, walls and drifts to 50 m and Shark Cove's undercut ledge and tunnel through North…

Technical (decompression)Advanced

IslandMax 25 m

West Island (Encounter Bay)

Fleurieu Peninsula & Victor Harbor · SA

Huge granite boulders to 25 m around a rarely dived seal and penguin island, with gorgonians and cold-water fish.

Advanced Open WaterAdvanced

Shore/Rock PlatformMax 18 mShore

Western River Cove

Kangaroo Island · SA

Kangaroo Island's classic shore dive – colourful reef fish in the shallows and gorgonians and blue groper on the deeper…

Open WaterIntermediate

Cave/CavernMax 10 mShore

Whale Bones

Fleurieu Peninsula & Victor Harbor · SA

A honeycomb of limestone caves and swim-throughs beneath a 2-3 m reef top, with harlequin fish and seadragons.

Open WaterIntermediate