Mares Gold Dealer, stockist and supplier with full Scuba Hire.

Our aim is to provide divers and snorkellers, young, old , inexperienced or advanced, a professional, relaxed and friendly atmosphere in which to learn from our experience and shop.

Wooli Dive Centre has gear sales and service, and arranges accommodation

EXPLORE THE SOLITARY ISLANDS MARINE PARK

Full Map | Pimpernel Rock Map | North Solitary Map

PIMPERNEL ROCK- Depth: 40 meters.
Features: Steep pinnacles and large tunnel.

Pimpernell Rock is one of the finest scuba diving locations along the entire New South Wales North Coast. The easiest way to dive the rock is through Wooli Dive Centre; we operate a 36ft Steber Craft and an 8.5 meter fast cat for smaller groups.

Pimpernell is isolated, doesn't break the surface and is some distance from solid earth. There is an enormous cavern, approximately 12m high and 15m wide, cave into the centre of the vast main structure some 40 meters from the surface. All mannner of sea life including sharks inhabit the giant shelter.

Sponge gardens decorate a reef spreading from the base of each of the three pinnacles. Large rocky bolders, small trenches and overhangs, flat areas and step overs hosting Seafans, seawhips and anemones.

NORTH SOLITARY ISLAND- Depth: 10m to 42m
Features: A number of different diving types & Snorkeling.

North Solitary Island is only 7 nauticle miles from Wooli in the marine park reserve, it's famous for a diverse variety of marine life, thickly populated at different dive locations around the Island.

At the northeastern end is a small sheltered inlet called Bay of Anemones. The boulder strewn site is carpeted with anemones and numerous anemonefish, cowries, rays, turtles and hard and soft corals.

The Step is a rocky dropoff; the wall drops from 15m to 45m and numerous sharks, giant manta ray, giant cod, eagle and bull rays patroll this section.

The Canyons is another popular spot. best described as a multi-coloured aquarium with a few southern species thrown in. Also famous for Painted Cray's and large diveable depressions in the ocean floor.

The Bubble Cave near a spot called Southern Anchorage. The cave is very dark, and a torch is needed to appreciate it, and there is air bubbles trapped at the top of the cave. fish life include Lion Fish, large schools of White Bait and Spanish Dancers at times cling to the walls of the cave.

Fish Soup is one of the most requested dive locations, located at a group of wave washed rocks called Noth West Rock. It is renowned for a variety of larger fish species such as Black Cod, Mangrove Jack's, Jew Fish, Spangled Emperor, Snapper, Red Mowong, Tarwhine just to name a few.

Grey Nurse Shark swimming inside of Pimpernell Rock at the roof of the cave.