The Pipeline - a macro photographers heaven!

The pipeline is easily one of the best macro dives in NSW. Along the pipeline you'll find small concrete blocks and lumps of ballast. Each area has its own little ecosystem that is prolific with sponges and soft corals. It is very common to find decorator crabs along the pipeline, other critters you will find are morays eels, eastern rock lobsters, tropical fish during the summer period, many different (and rare) nudibranch species, cuttlefish, blue ring octopus, seahorses, sea pens, pipefish and on and on! There are so many different species to find at the pipeline, it will keep you busy for hours after the dive studying your marine books trying to identify all the critters you saw.

The easiest way to dive this site is to follow the pipeline out to sea in a northerly direction. If you ever lose the pipeline, it's always easy to find your way back to shore or the break wall if you swim on a bearing of 030 degrees (or basically South). he pipeline is approximately 250 metres long and it is easily possible to swim all the way out to the end and back on a single dive. This would take approximately an hour however there isn't all that much time to stop and look at things. At the end of the pipeline the depth is about 18 metres and at the end about 10 metres north east is a small ledge that is similar to Fly Point. You can often find pineapple fish, wobbegongs and rock lobsters along this ledge.