At 15 metres, a fallen boulder seals a vast reef canyon in one of NSW's best shore dives — its crimson walls of jewel anemones glowing as bullseyes school in shafts of morning light.
7-day weather forecast for Newcastle, NSW sourced from Open-Meteo. Shows daily high/low temperatures, weather conditions and rain probability — useful for planning your drive to Skillion Cave.
7-day swell forecast for Skillion Cave, calculated using Pelagic's Hadal Conditions Intelligence™. Wave heights are site-specific — adjusted for Skillion Cave's exposure, orientation and depth profile. Colour bands show diveable conditions at this site: green is ideal, orange is marginal, red is undiveable.
5-day tide chart for Skillion Cave showing high and low tides with ideal dive windows highlighted in green. Tidal movement directly affects visibility and current strength at Skillion Cave — plan your entry to coincide with the green windows for the best conditions.
Tide data is site-specific and accounts for Skillion Cave's tidal sensitivity. Check the green windows above for the optimal entry time.