SOUTH OF SYDNEY
The main diving areas of the NSW south coast:
- Shellharbour
- Jervis Bay
- Ulladulla
- Batemans Bay
- Narooma/Bermagui and Montague Island
- Merimbula and Eden
Michael McFadyen is arguably the foremost expert on dive sites in Australia, if not the South Pacific. I cannot recommend his expertise and knowledge above all others. As such, I draw everyone's attention to his website (click on the banner above) and specifically in this instance, to southern NSW dive sites: www.michaelmcfadyenscuba.info/viewpage.php?page_id=2 In his own words:
"I established this Web Site about scuba diving in Sydney, NSW, Australia and the South Pacific, as well as a few other places, in June 1996. Since then it has gone through a few different versions. This latest version is the fourth and was completed in July 2006. The site has grown from a few pages to well over 900 separate pages. More than 650 dives are covered, mostly in detail and most with photographs and some with maps.
I am fairly confident that this is not only the largest diving related web site in the World, it also has more hits than any diving related web site in Australia.
This site is a non-commercial site and is unrelated to any dive organisation. It is purely here to provide divers with an information source to increase their enjoyment of scuba diving, shipwrecks and marine life in general. I hope that my experiences can help you when you are planning a dive trip, whether it is locally in Sydney, New South Wales, somewhere else in Australia or the Pacific Ocean region.
Any and all comments are welcome, as is any information to enhance the pages, especially more information about ships or shipwrecks or corrections to pages. I have also included some articles on non-diving related interests, especially four wheel driving and camping."
ALL Photos Copyright Michael McFadyen
SHELLHARBOUR/KIAMA
- Afghan Reef - Kiama
- Bass Point Bommie
- Bass Point Gravel Loader
- Bass Point Island - North
- Bass Point Island - South
- Blind Shark Reef - Kiama
- Blue Pool - near Robertson - freshwater
- Bushranger Bay
- Hump One
- Hump Wall
- Kiama Point
- Slipper Reef
- SS Cities Service Boston
- The Arch
- The Gutter
- The Gutter Sponge Gardens
- The Olgas - Kiama
SHOALHAVEN AREA
JERVIS BAY
General Information
Southern Side (from North)
Northern Side (from North)
- TSS Merimbula
- TSS Wandra
- Crocodile Head Gorge
- Crocodile Head
- The Arch
- The Whorehouse/Labryinth
- Sponge Garden - Point Perpendicular (also called Pyramid Rock!)
- Inside Point Perpendicular (yet another Pyramid Rock!)
- The Docks
- Darts Point
- Bombora Reef
- Fairey Firefly plane
ULLADULLA
- Brush Island
- Burrill Rocks Cave
- Burrill Rocks East Wall
- Burrill Rocks South Wall
- Home Bommie
- East North Bommie
- Lighthouse Wall Drift
- Lighthouse Sponge Gardens
- The Hole
- SS Northern Firth
BATEMANS BAY
- The Arch
- The Bubble Cave
- The Chimney
- Black Rock Drift
- Tollgate Islands
- Broulee Caves
- Grasshopper Island