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The Best Places to Dive and Surf in Australia

Australia is ranked among the world’s top diving and surfing destinations, and the country is endowed withthousands of kilometers of coastline, making for excellent surfing and diving. Many of thesesurf spotshave accredited schools that offer training for beginners, or give experienced adventured freedom to seek thrills on their own.

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The Rottnest Island

The Rottnest Island is located several kilometers from Australia’s West Coast and serves up extraordinary reef breaks for surfers. For divers, the island has over one hundred diving sites, Strickland Bay being the most famous. Because of its proximity to the coast, this easily accessible island is often referred to as Australia’s best urban dive spot for the weekender. The island also blocks the dangerous swells of the open ocean, making the waters are suitable for surfing by both beginners and experts alike. Reach the island by one of the many ferry services offered on the mainland.

Bells Beach

Bells Beach offers several surfing spots, although it is less popular and less crowded among the tourist set. The beach is located in Victoria, an hour’s drive from Melbourne, on the Southwestern coast of Australia. The waves of Bells Beach boast wave up to twenty feet high and is often used as locations for surfing competitions, including the world famous Rip Curl Pro Surf & Music Festival. The beach also has excellent diving spots, often used by dive instructors to train their students.

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A coral reef off of a remote peninsula, Ningaloo Reef is a tourist’s paradise for surfing, diving and other marine activities. Enjoy the clear waters along this long stretch of beach. A dive in the area allows you to see many types of fish, sharks, turtles and live coral gardens. Diving here requires a certification card to control the number of visitors, and can be earned during tours or through dive shops. Surfers will be keen on the protected swells of the peninsula and the many islands off the mainland that showcase a variety of different breaks.

Margaret River

The Margaret River is often referred to as the surf capital of Western Australia,and is home to powerful waves that stretch for miles along the coastline. Several scuba diving spots combine history with aquatic life, such as Dunsborough, the location of the shipwreck of the MAS Swan, a navy destroyer intentionally sunk in 1997 and now an interesting man-made habitat to several native fish species. Surfing on the Margaret River offers consistent breaks and clear waters year around, and serves as home to many surfing competitions because of the variety of swells if offers.

Great Barrier Reef

The Great Barrier Reef is rated as one of the most outstanding scuba destinations in the world because of its diverse species from the Great White Shark to the coral that constitutes the reef itself. Running for two thousand kilometers from Lizard Island to Great Palm Island, it is homes to an immense array of endangered sea turtles, whales and dolphins. A number of surf and diving schools are located along the coast nearby the reef, making this location perfect for both beginners and those experienced with marine sports.

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I'm Phoebe, a writer who lives in the bustling city of Manila in the Philippines. Apart from staying in this archipelagic country with various interesting beaches, mountains and plains, hey,I still want to travel the world. I was lucky to visit a few Asian countries. I found the (very!) best egg tarts I've ever tasted in Jordan, Kowloon; fell truly in-love with Thailand's serenity and Phuket's seascape; visited Singapore three times and finding out new interesting places each time; and flew at 72 meters above sea level in Sentosa's Zipline. With these few trips, it fueled me to achieve more travels in the next few years. I dreamt to travel farther and wider across the globe, with the promise of setting foot on Paris before I die. I'm not afraid to travel alone. And I'm not afraid to get lost, that is part of the journey. I can walk all day and night exploring the city, the culture and relish the different delicacies. With travelling, there is much languages to learn, cultures to understand, people to know, and I am ready for that. These all shows the risk-taker in me. Apart from jumping to different places, I love to work and to write (wherein working and writing does not make any difference to me). I take opportunities as they come, with the fear that it will never come again. With that said, I am very eager to take part on each of your journeys and share whatever experiences and knowledge I have to help each of you (our readers) have a trip that you cannot forget. Cheers!