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.
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Rowley Shoals · WA
Clear-water slope to a drop-off.
Geographe Bay & Busselton · WA
A remote offshore reef with big drop-offs to 50 m, 20 nm out and rarely dived.
Esperance & Recherche Archipelago · WA
Sheltered granite with seals on Remark's north side, a 50 m sponge and black coral wall on its south, and Frederick…
A gorgonian-covered wall plunging to 50 m.
Albany & Great Southern · WA
A 300 m granite canyon only 5-6 m wide, lined with sponges and crayfish, with resident wobbegongs and huge blue groper.
Ocean-facing granite wall to 40 m with caves, sponge gardens, black coral trees and schooling pelagics.
A vertical atoll wall with pelagics in 30 m+ visibility.
The least-publicised atoll, with the Cunningham Island lighthouse.
Grey reefs and silvertips on a current-swept point.
The Shoals' deepest wall, draped in red gorgonians.
Broome & Kimberley · WA
Remote oceanic atolls with walls rising from 500 m, rarely dived.
One of Australia's most remote atolls.
A remote, steep granite nature-reserve island with sea lions and fur seals, rarely dived.
Margaret River & Augusta · WA
Offshore walls and caves at 20-30 m off Canal Rocks, rich in fish and rarely dived.
Big gorgonian fans and black coral on a granite wall, granite fingers to 30 m, and the surge-driven 'Grinding Rock'…
Pilbara & Dampier · WA
A 30 m gorgonian-covered drop-off with groper and sharks on the remote Montebellos.
Deeper reef with big gorgonians, black coral and a coral garden, and visibility rarely below 20 m.
Granite boulders, gutters and caves with gorgonians and plate corals, seals at the NE haul-out, and a sheltered site…
Ningaloo – Exmouth · WA
A west-side wall with a soft coral shelf and passing pelagics.
Deep wall with soft coral shelf and pelagics.
Rottnest Island · WA
A narrow limestone ravine 8 m deep, lit by shafts of sunlight, cutting through an offshore mound at 18-26 m.
Sheltered lagoons with walls, coral heads and 40 m visibility — the Rowleys' easy classic.
Geraldton & Abrolhos Islands · WA
Big fish and reef sharks on the exposed seaward face of the reef that wrecked the Zeewijk.
A remote west-side wall off Mandu Mandu.
Kalbarri & Shark Bay · WA
A fault-line dive at Australia's westernmost mainland point, one of Shark Bay's best-known sites.
A gentle reef slope with finger-coral shallows and low walls – good for mixed snorkel/dive groups.
A sanctuary drop-off with 20 m-plus visibility, crays, morays and baldchin groper.
Ningaloo – Coral Bay · WA
Coral Bay's deepest regular outer-reef dive, on the Tropic of Capricorn.
An easy-to-follow limestone wall with ledges, gutters and protected crayfish in the Parker Point Sanctuary Zone.
Spur-and-groove canyons on the outer reef near Coral Bay.
Perth · WA
An offshore Mindarie reef with a wall with a good variety of corals and sponges at 15–21 m, rarely dived and with good…
Coral outcrops and ledges on a 15–20 m drop-off.
Caves packed with glassfish.
Sheltered granite walls and small caves with gorgonians and plate corals, diveable in most winds, next door to the…
A manta cleaning station at a bend in the outer reef.
A ledge with swim-throughs where grey nurse sharks rest.
An ocean gap in North Reef with outer-reef clarity close to Tantabiddi.
Coral shallows and a pelagic-patrolled wall.
Named Rowley Shoals site listed by Diveplanit and Divernet
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