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Desoto Inlet
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Desoto Inlet is a shallow boat dive (6m – 16m) consisting of overhangs and large rocks. It gets its name from an Old Desoto motor vehicle driven off the cliff into the inlet. Desoto Inlet is on the southern side of the south point, about 80m long and 10m wide.
You will see yellowtail, silver sweep, seapike, possible flathead, Port Jackson sharks, wobbegong sharks, different rays, shrimp, nudibranchs, corals, and plenty more.
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Shutterstock-Shane Myers Photography
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Grouper/Basslets
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Leopard seal
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