Busselton Jetty

Busselton Jetty is the longest wooden jetty (pier) in the southern hemisphere stretching almost 2 km out to sea from the town of Busselton, Western Australia.

Every year in autumn and winter, the Leeuwin Current brings with it a narrow band of warm water down the West Australian coastline. It's this warm southerly current that’s responsible for bringing the incredible and diverse variety of tropical and sub-tropical species into Geographe Bay.

Coral grows here at a latitude of 33 degrees south making it the most southerly coral growth in the world.

There have been around 300 hundred marine species recorded here. Huge schools of yellow tail scads cascade around the wooden pilings. Tropical and subtropical species litter the timber forest of the jetty’s legs. Soft coral and gorgonians deeply encrust every piece of timber, while ascidians hang in clusters off the pilings and sponges carpet any spare surface available.

It is the best of any living reef. Groups of old wives fish sit completely still, suspended between timber legs while perch and gurnards happily navigate around the reef. A diver would commonly encounter around a dozen types of nudibranchs.

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