Navigation
Snorkels
Although there is an abundance of snorkels on the market to choose from, we believe that you get what you pay for. Some cheap snorkels, plus budget mask and snorkel sets, offer snorkels which are not sealed correctly and therefore when bent and in use the snorkel lets in water not through the top, but through the centre. You won't find any of those here.
Diving Snorkels - The snorkels here are for scuba divers. Thus they naturally drop away from the diver's face because most of the time the diver will have a 2nd stage regulator in their mouth, not the snorkel mouthpiece. When the diver does use the snorkel the mouthpiece is bent up and into the mouth. This does place some additional pressure on the jaw and mouth compared to a snorkel for snorkellers that is designed to make this easier.
Snorkelling Snorkels - Some snorkels are designed more for snorkeling, rather than scuba diving. This means the snorkel is shaped so that the snorkel mouthpiece naturally comes close to the mouth. Thus the snorkeller has less pressure on their jaw and mouth. These snorkels are in our Snorkelling Snorkels section.
Note: For child and junior sized snorkels, please look at our Kids Corner.
For more information about snorkel features please read our advice on choosing the right snorkel for you in our Trusted Advice section.
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.
[ Top ]
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.
![Halcyon Infinity 30lb System [SS Small Backplate]](/diveshop/images/halcyon/Halcyon-Evolve-Wing.jpg "Halcyon Infinity 30lb System [SS Small Backplate]")
