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7Montague Island Grey Nurse Shark Gutters
Narooma · New South Wales · Australia
Surge channels and rocky gutters on Montague Island's western face where critically endangered grey nurse sharks aggregate in dense groups year-round, hovering motionless among boulders alongside wobbegong sharks and enormous bull rays.
reefNed's Beach
Lord Howe Island · New South Wales · Australia
A sheltered beach on Lord Howe Island's east coast where the world's southernmost coral reef meets a crystal-clear lagoon, and fearless endemic fish swarm snorkelers and divers in water shallow enough for beginners.
reefSolitary Islands Marine Park
Coffs Harbour · New South Wales · Australia
A marine park off Coffs Harbour where tropical and temperate ocean currents collide, creating one of Australia's most biodiverse underwater environments with an extraordinary mix of grey nurse sharks, manta rays, tropical fish, and temperate species.
Hastings Reef
Cairns · Queensland · Australia
A sprawling outer reef platform on the Great Barrier Reef accessible as a day trip from Cairns, offering sheltered coral bommies teeming with giant clams, anemonefish, and pelagic visitors cruising the reef edge.
Mornington Peninsula
Melbourne · Victoria · Australia
A temperate diving playground on Melbourne's doorstep where kelp forests, weedy seadragons, and Port Phillip Bay's unique marine ecosystem offer fascinating cold-water encounters including endemic species found nowhere else on Earth.
reefBusselton Jetty
Busselton · Western Australia · Australia
The southern hemisphere's longest timber jetty extends nearly two kilometres into Geographe Bay, its pylons encrusted with a kaleidoscopic artificial reef of soft corals, sponges, and invertebrates that rivals tropical diversity.
reefCoral Bay Ningaloo South
Coral Bay · Western Australia · Australia
The southern section of Ningaloo Reef accessible directly from the shore at Coral Bay, offering pristine shallow coral gardens with manta rays, reef sharks, and turtles in a remote Western Australian outpost where the reef meets the beach.