Vertical reef, drop-offs and sponge-covered walls: Port Phillip Heads, the Tasman Peninsula, Osprey Reef, the Ribbon Reefs and the granite coasts of the south.
20 sites
Mount Gambier Sinkholes & Caves · SA
Hanging over a 100 m+ spring-fed slot in 40 m-plus visibility – the signature Mount Gambier image.
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…
Remote island with 50+ sites, 20 m walls, seal colonies, big blue groper and historic wrecks at the mouth of Spencer…
Kangaroo Island · SA
Deep drop-offs covered in gorgonians and zoanthids beneath South Australia's highest coastal cliffs.
Spectacular reef walls with ledges and small caves at 18 m on a current-swept headland full of fish.
Eyre Peninsula · SA
Granite blocks dropping beyond 30 m in exceptionally clear water at one of SA's most remote islands, with harlequin…
Pristine walls and big fish schools around sea lion islets in the middle of Backstairs Passage.
Walls, gutters and ledges beneath 200 m cliffs on the remote north-west coast, with the Fides wreck nearby.
Sheer walls, deep ledges and boulder crevices with leafy seadragons and catsharks at one of SA's most remote island…
A kilometre-long wall from 22 m to 10 m, riddled with caves and swim-throughs and carpeted in red, yellow and orange…
Fleurieu Peninsula & Victor Harbor · SA
A 10 m limestone cliff riddled with caverns and overhangs in a no-take sanctuary zone – one of the most spectacular…
Rarely dived walls and gutters to 20 m in clear Bight water off Elliston.
A two-kilometre limestone reef with 8 m walls, a huge swim-through, chasms and pinnacles inside an aquatic reserve –…
Towering, bird-covered island with seal-visited ledges and big blue groper – usually dived with the famous Haystack…
A 40 m-wide sea cave running 70 m under the Innes reef, dived together with The Gap on a single tank.
Walls, swim-throughs and a 50 m cave below Innes's famous Gap lookout, with big blue groper and colourful invertebrates.
Walls, undercuts and caves that tunnel right through Yorke Peninsula's southernmost point, below the Cape Spencer…
A boat-only wall and reef in a sanctuary zone with leafy seadragons, crayfish and visits from a local seal colony.
A 4-5 m vertical wall with crevices and ledges running the length of the dive, from a quiet Fleurieu cove.
A fur seal colony under a sculpted sea arch – a land-based wildlife highlight, not a dive.
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