The Lighthouse Landing is the rock platform and cove on the eastern side of the South East Point peninsula where, for more than a century, supplies for the Wilsons Promontory Lighthouse were winched ashore from the lighthouse tender, and where the keepers' families arrived and left. Scuba Doctor lists it as a 5–30 m reef dive for Advanced divers, 750 m north of South East Point, facing north-east, and describes granite walls extending underwater with boulders up to 10 m high, clouds of butterfly and barber perch, and fragments of lighthouse supplies that were lost overboard during a hundred years of landings. It is the gentler of the two lighthouse dives and the anchorage from which the point is attempted.

The walls are the same granite as the point but stepped rather than sheer, broken by giant boulders that create overhangs and short swim-throughs, and floored with sand at 15–30 m where the debris of the landing lies – iron fittings, broken crockery, bottles and the odd unidentifiable lump of machinery, all protected as heritage and to be left where found. The perch schools are the visual highlight, hanging in dense clouds off the walls in the clear water, with boarfish, morwong, wrasse and leatherjackets on the rock, blue devils and bullseyes in the shade, and sponge, zoanthid and ascidian cover wherever the kelp thins. Fur seals rest on the landing rocks.

The site is reached after a long run from Port Welshpool down the eastern Prom coast or from Tidal River around South Point, and is dived only by expedition-minded club and private boats on calm days; its shelter from westerly winds makes it the natural lunch stop and second dive of a South East Point trip. The lighthouse above, the second-oldest in Victoria still operating, and the keepers' cottages now used for walker accommodation, give the dive a historical setting that no other Prom site has.

Boat only. Launch at Port Welshpool (sealed all-tide ramp, jetty and trailer parking on Corner Inlet, 2.5 hours from Melbourne) and run south through Corner Inlet's marked channels and out past Rabbit Island down the eastern Prom coast – about 30–40 km and 60–90 minutes to Sealers/Refuge Cove, longer to Waterloo Bay and South East Point. The coast is exposed to easterly and southerly swell and has no facilities; carry fuel, radio and all air, and plan around the weather window and Corner Inlet tides.

The landing is the sheltered cove on the eastern side of the lighthouse peninsula, about 44 km from Port Welshpool; anchor in sand off the landing's rock ledges in 10–15 m. It is the usual anchorage for boats working South East Point.

Best with calm seas, no swell and no wind; light offshore south-westerly to westerly winds acceptable, moderate to strong onshore northerly to southerly winds not. Sometimes strong currents mean slack water is preferred, using the Wilsons Promontory Lighthouse tide predictions. More sheltered than the point itself but still a long way from anywhere; autumn is the season.

Descend the anchor line to the sand at 12–15 m below the landing, follow the granite walls and 10 m boulders south towards the point to a maximum of 25–30 m, watching the perch clouds and searching the sand at the base of the walls for lighthouse debris. Turn at half gas, return along the wall at 8–12 m and finish under the boat.

No dive charter operates at Wilsons Promontory. Sites are dived from club and private trailer boats – Dive La Trobe, VSAG, Melbourne University Underwater Club and Dive Victoria Group run occasional camping-and-diving trips – launching at Tidal River (beach launch, permit/key from Parks Victoria), Port Welshpool or Sandy Point. Wilsons Promontory Cruises (Port Welshpool) runs sightseeing cruises to Skull Rock and the islands but no diving.