Advice on Diving in Australia

... opportunities for diving. Stretched out in the Coral Sea, just off the coast of Queensland lies the Great Barrier Reef. As the world’s largest coral reef, this structure is composed of more than 2,900 individual reefs and is approximately 2,600 km long. Cairns, located in northern Queensland, is the gateway to the Great Barrier Reef. This area has a tropical climate and diving all through the year. Water temperature ranges between 24 and 30 degrees Celsius in winter and summer respectively. Less people are familiar with the Ningaloo reef on the west coast of Australia, a fringing reef surr...