Stepping Stones, off Hamilton Island on the Great Barrier Reef, is aseries of 18 or more flat-topped coral pinnacles forming "steppingstones" with many interesting channels and caves to explore. Large areasof plate coral with fields of blue staghorn, schools of Batfish, GiantMaori wrasse, moray…
This reef offers deep canyons as well as bommies: almost 2km long reef with scattered coral heads. Between the bommies sandy floors are covered with smaller coral patches. Take a long safety sausage as its easy to become disorientated.
The Titan was the largest working crane in southern Australia. When being transported up the coast she turned upside down and eventually sunk off Point Perpendicular.Now Lying on it's side upside down in 40m of water it is getting covered with soft sponges and corals.Large jewelfish, kingfish and…
Wooden schooner, 124 tons, 88.8 feet long. Voyage from the Cape of Good Hope. There was a suggestion that her master had been careless or had deliberately wrecked the vessel. No lives lost.
"The USAT Meigs, a United States Army transport vessel (sometimes incorrectly referred to as the USS Meigs), was sunk in Darwin Harbour during the first Japanese air raid against the Australia mainland on February 19, 1942.Built San Pedro, California, in 1921 as the West Lewart, the Meigs had a…
Oct-Feb is the best time to see Gray Nurse Sharks, being the mating season (30+ sharks).During the summer months you can see 50+ gray nurse sharks on a single dive.You will spend most of your time on the bottom (30+meters) with the sharks at only arms length away.Lots of BIG stuff to see as well;…
On the south-west tip of Julian Rocks, the Needles are large bommiesthatcome close to the surface. Current here often brings with itschools oflarge and small fish, and at some times during the year,huge rays.When Julian Rocks is visited by the Leopard Sharks, they areoften foundat this site.The…
Situated just north of the Nursery. This site offers a range of large scattered bommies, one of which appears to be split down the middle. You will find a crevice here, usually filled with bullseyes, often concealing a large wobbegong or turtle. The depth here is 15 metres but heading north-west…
Wrecked on the night of September 5th 1950 the ship measured 135 metres long and weighed over 7000 tonnes. She now lies in 10 metres of water just off Merimbula. Though mostly collapsed you are still able to swim through the drive shaft passage and explore around the wreckage which has turned into a…
A succession of large boulders, sheer walls, ledges and shallow caves can be found on this excellent drift dive site. This is an adventurous 'what's next' type of dive that usually provides an element of the unexpected - sharks, rays, big fish, turtles or sometimes a dugong.
A relatively unexplored granite outcrop with large caves, and overhangs and carpeted with 1 metre strands of golden coloured kelp. This is one of our furthest dive sites and due to its exposed location it is rarely dived during the summer south easterlies. Brilliant for underwater photography (wide…
Three Sisters are a series of three large bommies lined up at the back of MillnReef. The deepest rises about 33m off the sand and within a metre of the surface. If there's a current start your first dive on the deepest bommie, see a giant school of fusiliers, various snapper and chub. As you go down…
Osprey Reef is frequently visited by long range dive boats out of Cairns and is one of the most interesting of the Coral Sea Reefs. The 27km by 4m atoll shaped reef lies 140km east of Lizard Island and 115km east of the Great Barrier Reef. The depth surrounding the reef is around 2000m. The reef top…
The reef site is 2.5 nautical miles off the coast and is 800 metres by 400 metres in size. New fish attracting devices are being located there regularly.This is a blue water dive, it's 50 metre long, 350 tonne dredge.You an find two Mohawk Aircraft, and a Beechcraft Aircraft, and many other…
The ultimate Great Barrier Reef scuba dive adventure - the Lady Bowen Wreck is a 220ft schooner now over 100 years old. A converted paddle steamer, she hit reef approximately 30 miles from where she eventually sank, no casualties.The Lady Bowen now rests is 34 metres and has become a reef in itself…
Seven miles east of Great Keppel Island are Barren & Child Islands. Diving these islands allows us to visit numerous sites ranging from 30m (100ft) off Child, to a very easy but extremely pretty area with depths of 6 - 9m (20 - 30ft) known as One Bum Beach.A drift dive in the passage between and…
Australia's Best Kept Secret!! - Egg Rock a site of world class diving. It is a Marine National Park ''B'' Zone which means that these islands are totally protected. This location is look and photograph only, and of undisturbed beauty, with wall dives to 30m (100ft) on the seaward side.Words just…