The Keppel Islands with its 16 islands and volcanic rocky outcrops feature dive sites with a magic of their own. Beautiful coral gardens, sheer rock faces covered in colourful sponges, drop offs, enormous bommies and wrecks.

The advantage of the Keppel group of islands is their proximity to the mainland, only half an hours's run by boat from Rosslyn Bay will place you almost anywhere in the group. There is a variety of underwater sights usually only found hours away on the outer reef, plus the bonus of calm sheltered waters of Putney Beach, where divers can also refill their cylinders.

This site is only 20 minutes boat ride from Putney Beach, has generally clear water and good anchorage

Approximately 16 metres deep, it offers the diver photographer good close up pictures as well as fish portraits. there are plenty of small tropicals as well as turtles, wobbygongs, and white tip reef sharks.

Small bolder type bommies litter the sandy bottom close to the main reef structure and numerous sea critters can be found living in encrusting corals.

Flat plate coral become hiding places for large numbers of small fish, tubeworms extend their painted heads from tiny burrows and feather stars cling to fragile branches of gorgonians. Also living in the general area of Man and Wife Island are numerous sea snakes and large schools of batfish have been sighted from time to time.

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