About Windy Point
Windy Point offers two fantastic dives: explore the shallow northern waters for a relaxed freedive or snorkel, or head into the deeper blue to experience the famous “Fish Soup.
Windy Point 7-Day Weather Forecast
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7-day weather forecast for Sydney, NSW sourced from Open-Meteo. Shows daily high/low temperatures, weather conditions and rain probability — useful for planning your drive to Windy Point.
Windy Point 7-Day Swell & Wave Height Forecast
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7-day swell forecast for Windy Point, calculated using Pelagic's Hadal Conditions Intelligence™. Wave heights are site-specific — adjusted for Windy Point's exposure, orientation and depth profile. Colour bands show diveable conditions at this site: green is ideal, orange is marginal, red is undiveable.
Optimal Dive Times & Tide Chart — Windy Point
About this chart
5-day tide chart for Windy Point showing high and low tides with high tide for easier entry and clearer water conditions highlighted as green. Tidal movement directly affects visibility and current strength at Windy Point — plan your entry to coincide with the green windows for the best conditions.
Tide data is site-specific and accounts for Windy Point's tidal sensitivity. This site dives best high tide for easier entry and clearer water.
Dive Site Guide
Windy Point sits just north of Oak Park at the end of the Cronulla Peninsula and offers a more varied experience than its immediate neighbour. The site has two distinct personalities depending on where you dive it. The northern, shallower section — 5 m and under — is a relaxed boulder field suited to freedivers and snorkellers. The main reef to the east runs to 13 m with genuine topographic interest: gutters, reef edges, and the famous Fish Soup aggregation where schools of bream, luderick, and sweep stack up in the water column in impressive numbers. On a good day, Fish Soup is one of the most visually striking encounters in Sydney waters.
Visibility averages 5–10 m and benefits from low swell and a sustained dry period beforehand. The current is generally mild but surge can run through the gutters and along the reef edges. Entry and exit over the rocks can be slippery — check the swell carefully before stepping in and take extra care on the exit when gear weight and post-dive fatigue are both factors. Watch for sea urchins on the rock surfaces near the waterline.
Boat traffic is possible in the area on weekends. A DSMB or clearly marked dive float is recommended for any open-water swimming away from the immediate foreshore. The gutter systems reward methodical divers who work slowly through the rocky sections — octopus, cuttlefish, and a good variety of invertebrates occupy the structure in numbers that make this a legitimate macro site in its own right.
DPV is the recommended way to get the most from this site — a scooter lets you cover Fish Soup, the gutter systems, and the outer reef sections in a single dive without running low on gas before the best terrain. Windy Point is also a productive night dive when conditions allow. The boulder and kelp habitat concentrates invertebrate activity after dark, and the Fish Soup aggregation — already impressive during the day — takes on a different character at night when species that shelter in the crevices during daylight become active on the reef surface. The fully exposed position means a careful surface and sea state check before committing to a night entry is even more important than during the day.
There are no facilities at the site itself. The nearby Oak Park Pavilion, 700 m south, has toilets, changing facilities, and showers. Abyss Scuba Diving is the nearest shop 12.2 km away.
