Shelly Beach

Sydney's famed beaches are Bondi and Manly. From Manly Pier you can see a bay know as Cabbage Tree Bay where Shelly Beach is located. The western side is known as Fairy Bower. You can reach it by head for Manly until you're on Sydney road and then head east. Take a right in to Belgrave Street at Manly Wharf and another right in to East Esplanade. Take a left into any of the first three streets and then right into Darley Road. The left into Addison and right again into Reddall. This will take you to Bower at the end of which is a car park where there's a fee charged to park. You can drop your gear and park further up instead. This dive has its good and bad days the viz can vacillate between 3 and 15m. The beach faces west and is protected when the east winds knock the other sites off the list for the day. It's shallow so novices are often trained here. The dive follows the wall on the right and then fades in a northerly direction. Eventually you'll reach a kelp forest at 12m with plenty of protected weedy sea dragons to fawn over. When you head back if you're good with your air you can cut in 200m to a few reefs running concurrently with lots of action.