Para Reef

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A named reef from the chart, not a dive site anyone has told us about. It may be a great dive or a sandbar at low tide. If you dive it, log the dive here so the crew knows.

What you'll see (22)

Purple Rock CrabLeptograpsus variegatusseen 17× near here

Speckled rock anemoneOulactis muscosaseen 17× near here

Dwarf Cushion StarParvulastra exiguaseen 15× near here

Waratah AnemoneActinia tenebrosaseen 13× near here

Weedy SeadragonPhyllopteryx taeniolatusseen 12× near here

Little Blue PeriwinkleAustrolittorina unifasciataseen 12× near here

Ringscale ThreefinEnneapterygius atrogulareseen 11× near here

Eastern Snake-necked TurtleChelodina longicollisseen 10× near here

Zebra Top SnailAustrocochlea porcataseen 9× near here

Smooth ToadfishTetractenos glaberseen 9× near here

Variegated limpetCellana tramosericaseen 9× near here

Striped-mouth ConniwinkBembicium nanumseen 9× near here

Rough turban shellLunella torquataseen 9× near here

Mulberry WhelkArakawania marginalbaseen 9× near here

Smooth-handed Ghost CrabOcypode cordimanaseen 7× near here

Carpet Sea StarMeridiastra calcarseen 7× near here

Green Snakelock AnemoneAulactinia veratraseen 7× near here

Rose-coloured BarnacleTesseropora roseaseen 7× near here

Eastern Red ScorpionfishScorpaena jacksoniensisseen 7× near here

Hoese's SandgobyIstigobius hoeseiseen 7× near here

Euastacus hirsutusseen 6× near here

Cart-rut ShellDicathais orbitaseen 6× near here

Planning a trip

8–12 days

worth going for

Long haul, usually two flights.

6,311km from Singapore — about 24h each way, so two of those days are travel. the only logged site in the area.

When people dive it

Busiest Jan, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Nov, Dec.

From 5,276 logged sightings — when divers are in the water, which is not quite the same as when visibility is best.

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Moon and tides

Waning gibbous

70% lit · day 20 of the lunar month

Neap tides

Neap tides — the smallest range of the month, so the weakest currents. Easy conditions and usually the clearest water, though a drift site may barely drift.

New 10 Oct Full 26 Oct

Phase computed here, not fetched. This is the spring/neap cycle, which sets how hard the water moves — not a tide table: no free source publishes high and low water for Southeast Asian reefs, and the range peaks a day or two after the moon does, by an amount that varies with the coast. For times on the day, ask the operator.

Getting there

~12h 51m

door to water, each way · 4 legs

FlightSydney (SYD)~10h 54mFlight time plus the airports at both ends. A connection adds to it.Find flights →
Transferthe jetty~21 minRoad transfer to the coast, usually arranged by the resort or liveaboard.Directions →
Ferrythe crossing~1h 6mAt this distance the last stretch is a scheduled crossing rather than a dive boat, so book it before the flight — a missed sailing usually costs a day. Which crossing it is has been worked out from the distance and not from a timetable; ask the operator.
Dive boatPara Reef~30 minThen the dive boat out from the island.

📍 Para Reef on Google Maps 🧭 Route from Sydney

Times marked ~ are estimated from straight-line distance and will be roughly right at best. The road legs are the ones Google Maps answers properly; it will not plan the ferry or the dive boat at all. A dive site's coordinates put a pin in open water, so the map link drops you on the site, not on a jetty.

Details

Country: Australia
Marks: 34°24.933'S 150°54.433'E
Position: -34.4156, 150.9072

On Wikidata →

Where it is

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Nearby

Sightings and photographs from iNaturalist contributors, research-grade records within 6km, under Creative Commons licences. Counts are what divers and snorkellers have bothered to log — a common fish with few records is common all the same.