Green, loggerhead and hawksbill turtles on the Great Barrier Reef, Ningaloo, Julian Rocks, Moreton Bay and the Solitary Islands, with nesting on the southern reef cays from November to March.
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East Arnhem Land & Gove · NT
Gove's closest island dive: colourful fringing coral in the shallows and sponge- and fan-filled caves deeper down, with…
Sheltered coral gardens on one side and a steep seaward wall of gorgonians and black coral on the other, patrolled by…
Darwin Offshore & Artificial Reefs · NT
Tidal reefs and islands at the mouth of Bynoe Harbour – a sheltered alternative to Fog Bay for self-sufficient divers.
The remote eastern tip of Arnhem Land – a special-permit area with potential for exploratory diving on calm days.
Darwin Harbour · NT
A channel-side rock with Darwin's best odds of turtles, plus rays, barracuda and big schools.
Groote Eylandt · NT
A sheltered island reef off Alyangula with the clearer water and richer shallow coral of the Gulf of Carpentaria.
A 2019 engineered concrete reef in 16 m off Dundee Beach – the shallowest and most approachable of the new NT reef…
The easiest shore-access island near Nhulunbuy, joined to the mainland by a sand spit – a short snorkel option for calm…
Remote Timor Sea islands visited by Darwin fishing liveaboards, with bluewater pelagics around the island reefs.
A remote reef area at the southern end of Fog Bay where tropical bluewater pelagics are regularly seen.
Dundee's main natural reef – extensive shallow coral with queenfish, mackerel and trevally sweeping over it on the tide.
Spectacular granite rocks with caves and swim-throughs and a deep, intact trawler wreck – Gove's most remote dive.
The NT's largest surviving colonial wreck: an 85 m 1881 steamer whose boilers break the surface at low springs while…
A ridge rising from 15 m to 5 m, with big fish at the base and clouds of small fish on the top.
Coral reefs rising steeply from fast tidal channels in Clarence Strait, with Spanish mackerel feeding along the edges –…
Tidal blue holes that become sheltered, fish-filled coral pools at low tide – with a 'horizontal waterfall' as the…
Sea walls of soft coral and gorgonians patrolled by pelagics, with good invertebrate life for macro divers.
Remote Arnhem Land island chain famed for fishing and tidal passages, with potential for expedition diving far from…
Camping base in the English Company's Islands for expedition-style island and reef diving from Gove.
A natural rock pinnacle off Groote Eylandt's west coast, reputed to be among the island's best dives.
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