Curlewis

Shore Dive | Shore access

Depth: 1 m (3.28 ft) to 4 m (13 ft)

Level: Open Water and beyond.

Curlewis (aka Grand Scenic Beach) is a delightful shore diving and snorkelling site near the locality of Curlewis, Victoria, 3222, south west of Geelong on the Bellarine Peninsula. The waters are generally calm and sheltered and it's a nice night dive site. It's a shallow dive, best done at high tide. Best to use a dive float with a dive flag.

Seahorses, nudibranchs, stingrays, pipefish, globefish, fliddler rays and interesting hydroids can be found here.

How To Get There
Turn off Portarlinton Road (C123), east of the entrance to Sands Caravan Park, onto Grand Scenic Drive. You can park at the end of the drive and make your way to the beach.

Location: Curlewis, Victoria 3222
MELWAY Ref: Page 454 H8

Ideal Conditions: The beach faces north so best dived with an offshore southerly wind. Well protected from even fairly strong southerly winds. Best at high tide. See WillyWeather (Curlewis) as a guide for the tide times and the height of the tide.

Wathaurong (Wadda-Warrung) country

Traditional Owners — This dive site is in the traditional Country of the Wathaurong (Wadda-Warrung) people of the Kulin Nation. This truly ancient Country includes the coastline of Port Phillip, from the Werribee River in the north-east, the Bellarine Peninsula, and down to Cape Otway in the south-west. We wish to acknowledge the Wathaurong as Traditional Owners. We pay respect to their Ancestors and their Elders, past, present and emerging. We acknowledge Bunjil the Creator Spirit of this beautiful land, who travels as an eagle, and Waarn, who protects the waterways and travels as a crow, and thank them for continuing to watch over this Country today and beyond.

 

Curlewis Location Map

Latitude: 38° 9.870′ S   (38.164502° S / 38° 9′ 52.21″ S)
Longitude: 144° 28.623′ E   (144.477044° E / 144° 28′ 37.36″ E)
Datum: WGS84 | Google Map | Get directions
Added: 2022-03-08 19:09:42 GMT, Last updated: 2022-03-22 14:14:37 GMT
Source: Google Earth
Nearest Neighbour: Wilson Spit Shellfish Reef, 5,594 m, bearing 26°, NNE
Bellarine Peninsula.
Depth:1 to 4 m.

DISCLAIMER: No claim is made by The Scuba Doctor as to the accuracy of the dive site coordinates listed here. Should anyone decide to use these GPS marks to locate and dive on a site, they do so entirely at their own risk. Always verify against other sources.

The marks come from numerous sources including commercial operators, independent dive clubs, reference works, and active divers. Some are known to be accurate, while others may not be. Some GPS marks may even have come from maps using the AGD66 datum, and thus may need be converted to the WGS84 datum. To distinguish between the possible accuracy of the dive site marks, we've tried to give each mark a source of GPS, Google Earth, or unknown.