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Sunlight shafts between the sponge-covered pylons of a timber jetty, where a weedy seadragon drifts over the sandy seabed among weed fringes and a school of small silver fish.

Dive Guide: Portsea Pier, Victoria — A Weedy Seadragon Shore Dive at the Edge of the Heads

Portsea Pier packs weedy seadragons, rays and sponge gardens into a shallow, easy shore dive near Port Phillip Heads. Conditions, access, etiquette and what to see.

Tom Okafor · September 26, 2026

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Port Phillip Heads and the Mornington Peninsula: Melbourne's Kelp

Weedy seadragons under the piers, drift dives through The Rip and kelp on the back beaches — a field guide to Port Phillip Heads and the Mornington Peninsula.

Tom Okafor · September 25, 2026

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