Boambee Beach, tucked between Sawtell and the mouth of Bonville Creek south of Coffs Harbour, has an even lighter diving profile than its better-known neighbour Sawtell Reef, and information on any specific dive site here is essentially anecdotal rather than documented by any dive shop, guidebook or online database. It is included in this survey for completeness as a small rocky headland/reef feature along an otherwise beach-dominated stretch of the Coffs Coast, on the basis that similar small headland reefs up and down this coastline are dived informally by local residents even without any commercial or club infrastructure supporting them. What can reasonably be inferred from the regional geography is a shallow rock reef in the 3-12 m range, typical of small headland features on this part of the coast, likely supporting resident subtropical reef fish, occasional turtles moving along the coastline, and the kind of algae and invertebrate growth found on similar unprotected rock elsewhere in the area.

Boambee Creek itself, a short distance inland, offers a well-known freshwater swimming and picnic spot but has no bearing on the ocean-facing reef described here.

Drive to Boambee Beach, accessed via Bonville or the Sawtell area south of Coffs Harbour, and park near the beach reserve; walk a short distance over sand to the water. Entry conditions and the best specific point of entry should be checked locally, as this is not a mapped or maintained dive site.

Conditions at Coffs Harbour's shore sites depend mostly on swell direction and the state of the local river/creek systems; sheltered harbour sites like Mutton Bird Island's inner face are usable more often than the exposed outer coast. Visibility drops for several days after the Coffs Creek, Bellinger or Nambucca systems flood following heavy rain. Winter (May-Oct) gives cooler but generally clearer water; summer (Nov-Apr) is warmer with more tropical vagrants.

As an exposed surf beach south of Coffs Harbour, Boambee is only diveable in very small swell.

Enter on a calm day, explore the shallow rocky sections at 3-8 m, and return to the same entry point before conditions change.

No dive centre or charter operates here; dived, if at all, by local residents and spearfishers on flat days.