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Green Turtle, Image Dave Harasti for Solitary Islands Marine Park
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Anemones at Anemone Bay, Courtesy of Marine Parks Authority
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Mantaray, Image Dave Harasti for Solitary Islands Marine Park
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Fishing at Hearnes Lake, Courtesy of Marine Parks Authority
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Cuttlefish, Image Dave Harasti for Solitary Islands Marine Park
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Must Do
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Diving and whale watching at Solitary Islands Marine Park
This small group of islands stretches for 75 kilometres along the Coffs Coast, from Muttonbird Island in the south to Plover Island in the north.
The largest marine protected area in NSW is also one of the best scuba diving spots in Australia. Divers swim with turtles, amongst shoals of multi-coloured fish and beautiful rainbow-hued coral.
The marine diversity derives from the convergence of two great ocean currents. More than 550 species of fish, four turtle species and various marine mammals cruise around 90 species of coral and a host of active ascidians (better known as sea squirts).
Each autumn and winter, humpback whales make their way north to calve in warmer waters. In spring, they turn and head south again to their Antarctic feeding grounds. Coffs Harbour and the seas around Solitary Islands Marine Park are among the best locations in Australia for whale watching, by land and by sea.