Rapid Bay

It’s often touted as one of the best local jetty dives around. The long T-shaped steel jetty can pro­vide a very nice, easy dive on a good day. The cur­rent can get pretty strong too, so that’s one thing to watch for.

Over the years, the jetty became has slowly decayed, and has been closed to fish­ers since 2004. A new jetty has been built along­side the old one and was opened in March 2009. Since it’s still new, there’s not that much life on the pylons yet, but in time it will hope­fully blos­som. There’s a great diver’s plat­form near the end of the jetty which makes get­ting in and out a very relaxed affair.

Once you’re in, you can fol­low a line which runs between the two jet­ties. Its a very pretty dive with lots of smaller fish, sponges and nudis all the way along the jetty, and huge schools of fish liv­ing under the T-section. Its also a good place to find both leafy and weedy sea dragons.

Rapid Bay Jetty

Rapid Bay Jetty
Rapid Bay - Pylon Growth

Ascid­i­ans grow­ing on the pylons
Rapid Bay - Leatherjacket

A juve­nile leatherjacket
Ceratosoma brevicaudatum

Nudi­branch, Cer­ato­soma brevicaudatum
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