Blairgowrie Pier - Victoria
Double Wall is a cracking way to kick off a Brac dive trip, especially if you’re staying up on the northwest end. We love dropping in here first. It’s got a classic Caribbean wall feel, starting shallow and just… dropping. We often find the visibility here can be truly exceptional, sometimes pushing past that 20m average, giving you this incredible sense of scale as you peer down the blue. Keep an eye out for the big barrel sponges clinging to the wall, they’re impressive, and often have a couple of cleaner shrimp busy at work inside. The corals are healthy, lots of star corals and rose coral formations, providing shelter for plenty of smaller stuff. You’ll definitely see schools of fusiliers and snapper, particularly the mutton snapper, hugging the wall, and the resident parrotfish are always munching away, creating those little puffs of sand. We’ve had some fantastic encounters with Caribbean reef sharks here, just cruising by in the deeper water, and it’s a reliable spot for turtles too. For a relaxed but undeniably beautiful wall dive, Double Wall delivers.
- Location
- Victoria, Australia, Australasia
- Coordinates
- -38.357700, 144.772600
- Type
- wall
Marine Protected Area: Port Phillip Heads
Nearby Dive Sites in Victoria
- Anderson Reef (reef)
- Annabella Reef (reef)
- Antares Rock
- Bella Vista Reef (reef)
- Big Reef (reef)
- Bird Rock
- Black Reef (reef)
- Boarfish Reef (reef)
- Captain Nitros' Drop-off (reef)
- Castle Rock (reef)
- Cat Reef (reef)
- Cottage By The Sea (wall)
- Crawfish Rock
- Delta Reef (reef)
- Devil’s Dropoff (reef)
Marine Life in Victoria
Home to 139 recorded species including 64 reef fish, 26 sharks & rays, 17 whales & dolphins, 7 seagrass & algae, 7 other, 3 starfish.
Notable Species
- Snapper (Pagrus auratus) - Reef Fish
- Giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) - Seagrass & Algae
- sea rimu (Caulerpa brownii) - Seagrass & Algae
- Sea Nymph (Amphibolis antarctica) - Seagrass & Algae
- Rig (Galeorhinus galeus) - Sharks & Rays
- Kelpie (Notolabrus tetricus) - Reef Fish
- Southern Right Whale (Eubalaena australis) - Whales & Dolphins
- Rock Perch (Parma victoriae) - Reef Fish
- Sea potato (Echinocardium cordatum) - Sea Urchins
- Patrician wrasse (Pictilabrus laticlavius) - Reef Fish
- Crested Weedfish (Cristiceps australis) - Reef Fish
- Dixons Stingaree (Urolophus paucimaculatus) - Sharks & Rays
- Ground Mullet (Neoodax balteatus) - Reef Fish
- Inanga (Galaxias maculatus) - Reef Fish
- Horse-shoe Leatherjacket (Meuschenia hippocrepis) - Reef Fish
- thorny worm (Glycera americana) - Worms
- Kelpie (Notolabrus fucicola) - Reef Fish
- Freycinet's Leatherjacket (Meuschenia freycineti) - Reef Fish
- Eastern Shovelnose Stingaree (Trygonoptera imitata) - Sharks & Rays
- Tasmanian Blenny (Parablennius tasmanianus) - Reef Fish