Cabbage Tree Bay, Manly, Sydney

Sydney’s Secret Underwater World

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Top tip

You don’t have to scuba dive to see the marine life in Cabbage Tree Bay, encounters can easily be had simply swimming or snorkelling.

Common marine life: Port Jackson sharks, wobbegongs, giant cuttlefish, eastern blue groper, sting rays, weedy seadragons.

Red Seahorse at Chowder Bay, Sydney © Jayne Jenkins

Red Seahorse at Chowder Bay, Sydney © Jayne Jenkins 

Did you know?

Scientists have installed ‘seahorse hotels’, small wire cages that provide sheltered habitat for the endangered species.

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Common marine life: seahorses, decorator crabs, frogfish, nudibranchs.

Weedy Seadragon, Kurnell, Sydney © Jayne Jenkins

Weedy Seadragon, Kurnell, Sydney © Jayne Jenkins

Common marine life: weedy seadragons, pygmy pipehorse, Port Jackson sharks, wobbegongs.

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Nudibranch Bare Island, Botany Bay, Sydney © Jayne Jenkins

Nudibranch Bare Island, Botany Bay, Sydney © Jayne Jenkins

Common marine life: nudibranchs, red Indian fish, eastern blue groper, seahorses, pygmy pipehorse.