Best Places to Dive in NSW: Region by Region

New South Wales packs a lot of diving into one coastline. Sydney has dozens of shore dives where weedy seadragons, seahorses and big blue gropers live a short walk from the car park. Further north, warm water brings anemonefish, turtles, leopard sharks and manta rays, and the critically endangered grey nurse shark gathers at a string of protected reefs from Byron Bay to Narooma. Out in the Tasman Sea, Lord Howe Island has the world's southernmost barrier coral reef.

This guide works up the coast region by region, with links to our full site guides. Every site below was checked against the operators who dive it, Michael McFadyen's long-running dive site pages, government agencies and, for a handful of sites, our own dives. Two well-known sites are currently closed: Bare Island until late 2027 and the ex-HMAS Adelaide wreck indefinitely. Both are covered below so you can plan around them.

NSW Dive Regions at a Glance

| Region | Signature dives | What you go for | How you dive it | |---|---|---|---| | Sydney Harbour and Northern Beaches | Shelly Beach, Chowder Bay, Camp Cove, Long Reef Wall | Seahorses and anglerfish in the harbour, pomfret schools and grey nurse sharks at Long Reef | Mostly shore; Long Reef Wall and Dee Why Wide by boat | | Eastern Suburbs | Magic Point, Clovelly, North Bondi | Grey nurse critical habitat, blue gropers, seadragons | Shore, with Magic Point by boat | | Botany Bay, Kurnell and Cronulla | The Leap, The Steps, Voodoo, Oak Park | Weedy seadragons, friendly blue gropers | Mostly shore; Bare Island closed until late 2027 | | Central Coast | Skillion Cave | A boulder-roofed crack with blue gropers | Shore, calm seas only; HMAS Adelaide closed | | Shellharbour | Bushrangers Bay, The Gutter | Grey nurse sharks in a sheltered bay, seadragons | Shore | | South Coast | Montague Island | Australian and New Zealand fur seals | Boat from Narooma | | Port Stephens to Forster | Fly Point, Halifax Park, Broughton Island, Seal Rocks, Latitude Rock | Tidal drifts, grey nurse critical habitat | Shore drifts at Nelson Bay, boat offshore | | South West Rocks | Fish Rock, Green Island, Black Rocks | Grey nurse sharks all year, a 120 metre ocean cave | Boat | | Coffs Harbour and the Solitary Islands | South Solitary, Split Solitary, North Solitary, Pimpernel Rock | Anemone fields, clownfish, grey nurse sharks | Boat | | Byron Bay and the Tweed | Julian Rocks, Cook Island, Nine Mile Reef | Leopard sharks and mantas in summer, grey nurse sharks in winter, turtles | Boat | | Lord Howe Island | Ball's Pyramid and the reefs around the island | Southernmost coral reef, Galapagos sharks | Boat, September to May |

Sydney Harbour and the Northern Beaches

Inside the harbour, the dives are shallow, sheltered and best for small things. Along the Northern Beaches, the reef runs from the rock platforms to shallow sand within a short distance, so the bigger dives are offshore reefs reached by boat.

- Shelly Beach, Manly: the beach at the head of Cabbage Tree Bay Aquatic Reserve, a no-take reserve since 2002 and one of the most popular snorkelling and diving spots around Sydney. Keep the reef on your right as it slopes from 2 or 3 metres to 10 to 12 metres. Juvenile dusky whaler sharks sometimes gather along the promenade side of the bay. - Chowder Bay and Clifton Gardens: a shallow harbour dive near Bradleys Head, under the old wharves and along the swimming enclosure. White's seahorses live on the net and pylons, and tiny anglerfish turn up beside the old mooring chains. Dive near high tide, ideally at night, and expect visibility of seven metres at best. - Camp Cove, Watsons Bay: a low reef just inside South Head, protected from everything except cyclonic northern swell, which makes it the classic dive when a southerly blows elsewhere. It is only 4 to 7 metres deep, with White's seahorses, pygmy leatherjackets and blue-ringed octopus. Visibility averages 4 to 5 metres, and boats anchor overhead in summer, so never surface away from the reef. - Long Reef Wall (The Apartments): a boat dive off Long Reef where a ridge topping out at 8 to 10 metres steps down to boulders, The Cathedral swim-through and Andys Cave. Pomfret schools can be thick enough to need a torch. Sydney Dive Charters sees grey nurse sharks here all year, with numbers building from December and peaking in April and May. - Bluefish Point, North Head: a wall of tumbled boulders just outside North Head, full of swim-throughs and overhangs, with giant cuttlefish, Port Jackson sharks, wobbegongs and nudibranchs. Tailor and kingfish pass by out at the sand line. - Dee Why Wide: despite the name, this reef sits 2.4 kilometres off Curl Curl Beach. It is a deep boat dive, with the reef top at about 23 metres, gullies to 30 metres, cracks that open into caves and a huge old ship's anchor jammed in one of them. Visibility is usually 10 to 15 metres and occasionally 30.

Eastern Suburbs: Bondi to Maroubra

- Magic Point, Maroubra: Sydney's only grey nurse shark critical habitat, a short wall and cave at about 15 metres off the northern side of the point, reached by boat. The sharks returned around 2000, but numbers swing widely, and McFadyen notes long spells between 2013 and 2024 with none at all. Treat a sighting as a bonus. Night dives are banned in the critical habitat. - Clovelly: a narrow bay inside Bronte-Coogee Aquatic Reserve, made pool-calm by a rocky breakwater at its mouth and home to a large blue groper the council calls "Bluey". Inside the breakwater it is only 2 to 6 metres deep, which makes it a good first night dive. Randwick City Council restricts scuba diving here from 1 October to 30 April between 8am and 6pm, so in the warmer months dive early or late. Next door, Gordons Bay has a 500 metre underwater nature trail to about 12 metres. - North Bondi (Ben Buckler): a shore dive from the rock platform below Ramsgate Avenue. Swim south over boulders to the sand at about 15 metres, then follow the reef edge, where McFadyen expects four or five common seadragons a dive. It is a long swim back to the boat ramp exit, so watch your air. - South Bondi Reef (Flat Rock): a shallow dive in the inlet just south of Bondi Beach, 2 to 9 metres deep, with short caves that usually hold a wobbegong or two. Calm seas only.

Taking eastern blue groper by any method is banned in NSW waters.

Botany Bay, Kurnell and Cronulla

The south side of Botany Bay is Sydney's seadragon country, where the Kurnell shore dives start from the rock platforms of Kamay Botany Bay National Park. McFadyen notes the park is closed at night, so those are day dives.

- Bare Island, La Perouse: closed until late 2027. NSW National Parks closed the whole precinct, including the access road, bridge, rock shelf and fort, from 24 August 2026 while the timber bridge is repaired, and water access beneath the bridge may also be restricted. When it reopens, it is a cluster of shore dives around an 1880s fort, and McFadyen keeps whole pages on its pygmy pipehorses, seahorses and nudibranchs. - The Leap, Kurnell: a drift on the incoming tide. You jump from the rock platform, follow the sand edge at 21 to 22 metres and finish at The Steps. McFadyen enters at least 90 minutes before high tide at Fort Denison and says it is probably not safe once the swell tops 0.8 metres. He once saw up to 20 seadragons a dive here, though port dredging in 2009 and the 2022 floods both knocked their numbers back. - The Steps (Inscription Point), Kurnell: stairs lead down to the rock platform, and the dive runs north to boulders and sponges in 10 to 15 metres before you return to the same entry and exit. McFadyen used to guarantee at least one weedy seadragon a dive here, though he has seen fewer since about 2010, and our own footage of a seadragon at The Steps is on YouTube. PADI's listing recommends slack water or an incoming tide. - Voodoo, Kurnell: an advanced shore dive off the rock shelf on the southern headland of Botany Bay, named after the surf break above it, and one we have dived and filmed ourselves. You time both entry and exit with the surge, walls drop from about 10 metres to sand at 25 to 30 metres among house-sized boulders, and in winter grey nurse sharks can cruise the sand line. It needs a swell under about a metre. Don't confuse it with the offshore boat dive of the same name that McFadyen describes east of Boat Harbour. - Cape Banks Caverns: a boat dive about 50 metres south of the tip of Cape Banks, the northern headland of Botany Bay. Gullies, caves and swim-throughs run from a few metres to almost 30. In winter, Port Jackson sharks pack into the gullies, up to 20 in a group. - Oak Park, Cronulla: an easy shore dive along a two to three metre high wall that arcs out from the shore beside the ocean pool, with what McFadyen calls the friendliest blue gropers on any shore dive. Visibility averages 7 to 8 metres. It is sheltered from southerlies, popular with learners and a good night dive. Our crew has filmed it too. - SS Annie M. Miller: a 48 metre collier that sank off Sydney's eastern suburbs on 8 February 1929, drowning six of her crew. She lies on her port side in 43 to 46 metres, so this is a deep dive for experienced divers only. It is not a harbour wreck.

Central Coast: Terrigal

Terrigal is about one and a half to two hours' drive north of Sydney.

- Skillion Cave, Terrigal: a shore dive from the low rock platform just north of The Skillion. The "cave" is really a crack in the reef roofed by a wedged boulder at almost 20 metres, usually with a couple of blue gropers inside, and the wall outside is hung with gorgonias. Any easterly or north-easterly swell crashes straight onto the entry and exit, so it only works on calm days. - Terrigal Haven: the small boat harbour beside The Skillion, with moorings and a shallow boat ramp. Divers also use it as a sheltered shore dive from the ramps, over sand and seagrass under the moored boats. - Ex-HMAS Adelaide: closed. The frigate was scuttled in 2011 about 1.8 kilometres off Avoca Beach in roughly 32 metres. NSW Crown Lands closed the site in July 2024 after storm damage, and later surveys found the aluminium superstructure had collapsed off the hull. The department warns of entrapment and crush hazards and says the public should not attempt to dive it.

Shellharbour and Bass Point

Bass Point is about 105 kilometres south of central Sydney, and its picnic reserve makes it easy to fit two or three dives into a day.

- Bushrangers Bay: a small no-take aquatic reserve of about 4 hectares at the eastern end of Bass Point, sheltered and very good for novices. Inside the figure-eight bay it is 3 to 8 metres deep, dropping to 15 to 18 metres at the mouth. Since 2018, grey nurse sharks have been turning up in the bay. McFadyen counted at least 30, mostly juveniles, in January 2023, and our own videos of the sharks at "Bushies" are on our YouTube channel. Dive Centre Bondi offers trips here for the sharks. - The Gutter: a shore dive that starts in a kelpy gutter at 3 to 4 metres and heads north to canyons at 18 to 20 metres. A side gutter there has the most colourful sponges and gorgonias on the dive, and seadragons too. See our Bass Point overview for the other sites on the point.

South Coast: Montague Island

- Montague Island, Narooma: Barunguba Montague Island Nature Reserve lies 9 kilometres off Narooma, and hundreds of seals use it year-round. Both Australian and New Zealand fur seals live there, and McFadyen finds September and October the best months because seal numbers peak then. The usual dive is to sit on the bottom in a shallow bay and let the seals come to you. Our own clip of a seal play-fighting with a diver is on YouTube. Underwater Safaris, which runs dive and snorkel trips from Narooma, puts the island a 15 minute boat ride away. The island is also grey nurse shark critical habitat. If you bring your own boat, McFadyen rates the Narooma bar the most dangerous in NSW.

Port Stephens, Seal Rocks and Forster

Port Stephens is two to two and a half hours from Sydney, and Forster four to five.

- Fly Point and Halifax Park, Nelson Bay: two shore dives in the harbour where the reef drops past 20 metres within 20 to 30 metres of the shore. Both are dived on the tide. McFadyen starts at about the time of high tide at Fort Denison and drifts with the flow for 20 to 30 minutes. He also notes that fishing is banned in the Fly Point and Halifax Park reserve, apart from two wharves and the beach between them, as are spearfishing and collecting. Note that since about 2009, sand has buried many of the smaller reefs at Halifax Park. - Cabbage Tree Island: the largest of the three islands at the entrance to Port Stephens, a 20 minute boat ride from the Nelson Bay marina. It is an easy reef dive in 5 to 15 metres, with the broken-up remains of a fishing trawler on the western side. Dive it close to high tide, because the outgoing tide carries dirty water out of the port. - Broughton Island: about 12 kilometres from the Nelson Bay marina. The Looking Glass is a 40 to 50 metre crack right through Looking Glass Island, and the Big and Little Shark Gutters at Little Broughton Island are where the grey nurse sharks gather. Little Broughton Island is grey nurse critical habitat and a sanctuary zone. - Seal Rocks: Big and Little Seal Rocks are grey nurse critical habitat and a sanctuary zone. McFadyen counts Seal Rocks among the few places in NSW where the sharks can generally be seen every day of the year. Forster Dive Centre circles Little Seal Rock in 16 to 25 metres, the rock that sank the SS Catterthun in 1895. Visibility is often 30 metres, but the site is exposed to swell and current, so carry a surface marker buoy. - Latitude Rock, Forster: Dive Forster's most-dived site, a set of east-west ridges and kelpy gutters just north of Cape Hawke. The gutters lie in 10 to 14 metres, and Dive Forster says up to 30 grey nurse sharks can be in them on a single dive. - The Pinnacle, Forster: the advanced dive here, about 3 kilometres off Cape Hawke, where the reef rises from 50 metres to a top at about 24 metres. Dive Forster reports grey nurse aggregations of 50 and more, and the site is grey nurse critical habitat.

South West Rocks: Fish Rock, Green Island and Black Rocks

- Fish Rock Cave: Fish Rock sits about 2 kilometres off Smoky Cape. The cave runs right through it, 120 metres long by Fish Rock Dive Centre's figure (South West Rocks Dive Centre says 125), with a shallow entrance at 12 metres and a deep one at 24. Grey nurse sharks are here all year. South West Rocks Dive Centre sees the most from May to September, sometimes only a few or none from February to April, and from October to December the sharks often rest in the shallow cave entrance. Fish Rock Dive Centre says the cave suits advanced divers best. Fish Rock is grey nurse critical habitat. - Green Island: a small island just off the coast north of Smoky Cape Lighthouse, also grey nurse critical habitat. Usually dived as a drift along the northern and eastern sides, it has sponge-covered ledges, resident turtles, wobbegongs and blind sharks. - Black Rocks, Smoky Cape: two rocks off the beach south of the lighthouse with a plate coral garden from 6 to 16 metres on the northern side. It suits all levels and is a common second dive.

Coffs Harbour and the Solitary Islands

Solitary Islands Marine Park covers about 75 kilometres of coast from Coffs Harbour to the Sandon River, where tropical water from the north meets temperate water from the south.

- South Solitary Island: about 8 kilometres offshore and 30 to 40 minutes from Coffs Harbour by boat. Manta Arch, near the island's northern tip, is its grey nurse dive. Jetty Dive has counted up to 60 sharks in winter and over 40 in summer, and rates it advanced because of the depth. Buchanan's Wall, towards the southern end, runs from 15 to 30 metres, with nudibranchs, Spanish dancers, soft corals and anemones holding clownfish. - Split Solitary Island: about 4 miles north of the harbour, a plateau in about 10 metres dropping to 15 to 18 metres. Hard and soft corals, sponges and nudibranchs cover it, and turtles rest at Turtle Cove. - North Solitary Island, Anemone Bay: tens of thousands of anemones cover the shallows of this bay, 5 to 15 metres deep. Out at the Shark Gutters, in 25 to 27 metres, grey nurse sharks are normal in winter. It is about 25 minutes by boat from Wooli, or roughly 75 minutes each way from Coffs Harbour. - Pimpernel Rock: a pinnacle about 7 kilometres off Sandon Point that rises from over 40 metres to less than 10, with a tunnel through it whose top is about 27 metres down. Grey nurse sharks gather outside both entrances. It is a Commonwealth-managed grey nurse aggregation site and usually a long run from Wooli.

Byron Bay and the Tweed

- Julian Rocks, Byron Bay: Nguthungulli Julian Rocks sits 2.5 kilometres offshore in Cape Byron Marine Park, five minutes out by boat. The boats launch off the beach. Summer brings leopard sharks (December to April, leaving in May) and manta rays, and winter brings grey nurse sharks, with turtles, rays and wobbegongs year-round. Sundive's sites include The Nursery (6 to 12 metres), The Needles (9 to 15 metres), Hugo's Trench (8 to 17 metres) and the Cod Hole, a swim-through from about 15 to 18 metres. Julian Rocks is a sanctuary zone and grey nurse critical habitat, with all fishing banned. It is an open ocean site that can have swell, surge and current. - Cook Island, Tweed Heads: in NSW waters about 600 metres off Fingal Head, inside an aquatic reserve whose inner zone is no-take, with public moorings. Kirra Dive reaches it in 15 to 20 minutes down the Tweed River and across a light bar crossing. The North Wall is the most-dived site, at 5 to 13 metres, and Marys Rock is an advanced dive to 21 metres. Green turtles and wobbegongs are regulars. Grey nurse sharks visit in winter, and leopard sharks and wedgefish line up on the sand in the warmer months. - Nine Mile Reef: an offshore ridge in 12 to 30 metres for experienced divers only, where current can run at three knots and trips are often cancelled. Grey nurse sharks gather in winter in a gutter called the shark pit, and leopard sharks rest on the bottom in summer.

Lord Howe Island

Lord Howe Island lies 600 kilometres east of Port Macquarie. It has been World Heritage listed since 1982, its barrier reef is the southernmost in the world, and 13 of the 490 fish species recorded there are endemic. Dive Lord Howe dives from September to May, with December to March the peak, and closes from June to August. It reports 25 to over 40 metres of visibility in summer, 10 to 20 metres in the cooler months, and water of 22 to 26°C in summer, dropping to about 18°C. The headline trip is Ball's Pyramid, about 23 kilometres to the south-east, where the rare Ballina angelfish lives. Those trips depend on the weather and can't be booked in advance. Galapagos sharks are part of the island's snorkelling too.

Best Dives by Interest

Grey nurse sharks: Fish Rock, where they are seen all year; Seal Rocks, Latitude Rock and The Pinnacle near Forster; Manta Arch at South Solitary Island; Long Reef Wall; Bushrangers Bay; and Julian Rocks in winter. Magic Point is the closest to the city, but sightings there are far from certain.

Weedy seadragons: The Steps, The Leap, North Bondi and The Gutter.

Easy shore dives for newer divers: Clovelly, Oak Park, Bushrangers Bay, Camp Cove and Shelly Beach.

Seahorses and small critters: Chowder Bay and Camp Cove, especially at night. Bare Island will join this list again when it reopens.

Big animals: Julian Rocks for leopard sharks and mantas, Montague Island for fur seals and Fish Rock for sharks.

Wrecks: the SS Annie M. Miller in 43 to 46 metres for experienced deep divers. The ex-HMAS Adelaide is closed.

When to Dive in NSW

| Season | What the sources say | |---|---| | Winter (June to August) | Sydney's clearest water of the year in McFadyen's dive logs. Peak grey nurse numbers at Fish Rock (May to September) and Julian Rocks. Dive Lord Howe is closed. | | Spring (September to November) | Montague Island seal numbers peak in September and October, and whales pass the island from September to November. Fish Rock's grey nurse sharks often rest in the cave entrance from October to December. Sydney visibility is at its worst in October and November. | | Summer (December to February) | Leopard sharks and manta rays at Julian Rocks, and peak season on Lord Howe Island (December to March). Sydney water is warming. | | Autumn (March to May) | Sydney water is at its warmest, averaging about 19.7°C in March and April. Grey nurse numbers peak at Long Reef in April and May. Leopard sharks leave Julian Rocks in May. Fish Rock can have few grey nurse sharks from February to April. |

McFadyen's Sydney dive logs show visibility better than 10 metres on exactly half of his dives, and across more than 2,200 dives his water temperatures average about 15.7°C in August.

Diving with Grey Nurse Sharks: the Rules

The grey nurse shark, also called the sand tiger shark, is listed as critically endangered in NSW. The national Code of Conduct for Diving with Greynurse Sharks applies in all NSW waters. Divers must not:

- dive at night at grey nurse critical habitat sites - touch, feed or interfere with the sharks, or chase or harass them - block cave entrances or gutters, or trap a shark - dive in groups of more than ten - use scooters, horns, shark pods or other mechanical devices

Penalties run to fines of up to $110,000 or two years in prison. The NSW critical habitat sites in this guide are Magic Point, Fish Rock, Green Island, Julian Rocks, Big and Little Seal Rocks, The Pinnacle at Forster, Little Broughton Island and Montague Island. North and South Solitary Islands are aggregation sites. Bass Point was delisted as critical habitat in a review whose changes took effect in 2014, but the code still applies there and everywhere else in NSW. Our grey nurse shark guide has more on the species.

Site Access and Logistics

Closures and rules. Bare Island is closed until late 2027, and the ex-HMAS Adelaide is closed with no reopening date. At Clovelly, scuba diving is restricted from 1 October to 30 April between 8am and 6pm. The Kurnell sites in Kamay Botany Bay National Park are day dives only. Shelly Beach, Bushrangers Bay and the inner zone of Cook Island are no-take reserves, and taking blue groper is banned statewide.

Shore or boat. Sydney, Shellharbour and the Nelson Bay harbour dives are mostly shore dives that depend on swell, and several of them, including The Leap, Fly Point and Halifax Park, need the right tide. The offshore islands and reefs from Broughton Island north are boat dives, as are Montague Island, Cabbage Tree Island, Long Reef Wall, Dee Why Wide, Magic Point, Cape Banks Caverns and the Annie M. Miller.

Who runs the dives. Operators we checked for this guide:

- Sydney: Abyss Scuba Diving for Magic Point boat dives, mostly departing Fisherman's Wharf at Sans Souci; Sydney Dive Charters for Long Reef Wall; and Dive Centre Bondi for guided shore dives at Gordons Bay, Clovelly, North Bondi, Kurnell and Clifton Gardens, plus Bushrangers Bay - Narooma: Underwater Safaris for Montague Island - Forster: Dive Forster at Fisherman's Wharf, and Forster Dive Centre in Tuncurry, for Seal Rocks and the Forster reefs - South West Rocks: Fish Rock Dive Centre and South West Rocks Dive Centre - Coffs Harbour: Jetty Dive, from the Coffs Harbour marina - Byron Bay: Sundive - Tweed: Kirra Dive for Cook Island, which runs on Queensland time - Lord Howe Island: Dive Lord Howe

For everyone else, search our dive shop directory.

Distances. Shellharbour is about 105 kilometres south of central Sydney, Narooma about 350 kilometres south, and Byron Bay about 700 kilometres north by road. Lord Howe Island is reached by air from Sydney, with flights also from Port Macquarie, Newcastle and the Gold Coast.

Exposure protection. Dive Lord Howe recommends a 5 mm wetsuit year-round. In Sydney, McFadyen's logs average about 15.7°C in August and 19.7°C in March and April, with Julian Rocks running 18 to 21°C in winter and 21 to 26°C in summer, so plan your wetsuit thickness around those numbers.

Before you go. Check the forecast swell, then the dive sites directory, which shows visibility forecasts and reports for tracked sites. New to diving? Start with Is Scuba Diving Right for Me? and our Learn to Dive guides. For the animals, see our guides to the blue groper, wobbegongs and old wives.

Sources

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Header photo: A weedy seadragon over sand in Sydney, by Tim Sheerman-Chase, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.