Jubilee Point is the headland between St Pauls Beach and Diamond Bay on the Sorrento ocean coast, and the reef around it is a labyrinth. The Scuba Doctor's description – many curving gutters and alleyways around the reefs – captures it: the limestone platform breaks up seaward into a series of parallel and curving channels a few metres deep, walled with kelp-topped rock and floored with sand and cobble, opening into wider gutters and ledges at 5–10 m off the point. The channels funnel fish: schools of sweep, zebrafish and old wives move through them with the surge, magpie perch and wrasse hold in the eddies, and the undercut walls shelter Port Jackson sharks, rock lobsters, abalone and the occasional blue devil.

Weedy seadragons sit in the kelp at the gutter mouths and sea tulips and sponges line the shaded walls. It is one of the more rewarding back-beach reefs at a modest depth, but access from shore is the worst of the Sorrento group – a scramble east over the platform from St Pauls Beach – which is why the source recommends it as a boat dive; Back Beach Cray Reef lies a kilometre offshore to the south-west in 6–20 m for boats on the same day. Conditions govern everything: flat seas, swell under about 2 m with a long period, light northerly to north-easterly winds after several days of the same, and a willingness to walk away.

Surge in the gutters is strong even on good days and a set can push a diver against the walls. Jubilee Point suits experienced divers with rock-platform skills, ideally with boat support, and photographers who want fish-filled gutters in clear water; it is not a snorkelling site except in exceptional calm.

Park in the small car park at the end of St Pauls Road, Sorrento, and take the steps to St Pauls Beach, then clamber east over the rock platform to the area east of St Pauls Rock and enter from the platform at low tide – a demanding scramble with gear that the source says makes this a better boat dive. Boats launch at Sorrento and cross The Rip at slack water, or the site is included in back-beach charter days. Exit at St Pauls Beach.

The back beaches face south-west into Bass Strait and are safe to dive only in rare flat conditions: The Scuba Doctor's rule of thumb is swell under about 1.5–2 m with periods of 10 seconds or more, usually only after three or four days of northerly to north-easterly winds, with light northerly winds on the day. Any southerly or westerly wind, or a fresh swell, makes the entries lethal. Dive around low tide when the limestone platforms are exposed and the gullies are sheltered, and abort if there is white water over the entry.

Rips and tidal streams near The Rip run even on calm days, and conditions change within an hour. Winter high-pressure systems bring the calmest spells; summer sea breezes rule out afternoons.

From the platform east of St Pauls Rock, enter a gully at low tide and follow it seaward into the curving gutters in 5–8 m, working around the point to 10 m with the reef on your right. Turn at half gas, retrace through the gutters and exit by the same gully; from a boat, anchor on sand and circle the reef.

No regular operator. The Scuba Doctor (Rye) and Peninsula clubs run occasional guided shore dives when conditions allow; otherwise experienced private groups only.