Silverswift

Dive & Snorkel Sites from Cairns

We've chosen some of the best known dive sites off Cairns such as Flynn, Milln and Thetford reefs for their abundance of marine life. We also occasionally visit Pellowe Reef. These sites offer excellent wall dives, swim-throughs, and overhangs. Expect to see an abundance of marine life combined with plenty of hard corals such as staghorn, table, plate and boulder coral heads and many species of soft corals.

#01 Flynn Reef

Flynn reef is one of our most popular reefs to dive and will offer the novice to the very experienced diver plenty of memorable dives. We have moorings at a number of the well known dive sites at Flynn reef such as Tracy’s Bommie, Gordon’s Mooring, Tennis Court and the Coral Gardens... more

RATING: Novice - Intermediate

#02 Milln Reef

Milln Reef offers a number of exciting dive sites such as Whale Bommie, Petaj Mooring, Swimming Pools I, Swimming Pools II and the Three Sisters to name a few. Some of the walls are full of sleeping parrot fish in their mucus sacks, turtles and barracudas and the occasional bull ray.... more

RATING: Novice - Intermediate

#03 Thetford reef

Thetford reef is made up of numerous coral bommies where you can experience some very exciting wall dives and many swim throughs. This reef is home to many soft and hard corals like staghorn and plate coral and an abundance of marine life. Look for the giant clams, butterfly fish, damsels... more

RATING: Novice - Intermediate

#04 Pellowe reef

Pellowe reef is a very exciting dive site! A small isolated reef located close to the edge of the continental shelf. For this reason access to the reef is very weather and tidal dependent. The reef drops away very quickly at places to 30 metres and stronger currents can be present as well.... more

RATING: Novice - Intermediate