Diving – The Leap to the Steps – January, 2024
The Leap to The Steps has got to be the best shore dive in Sydney. It's definitely for the more experienced, and you need to be relatively good on your air. But if you tick both of those boxes, nothing else comes close (except Bare Island of course). The dive site is located on the southern headland of Botany Bay and is ocean facing, meaning visibility is generally pretty good. It's also a drift dive, so you need to dive it on an incoming tide so that you can ride the current to the Steps (rather than out to sea). As we do once or twice a year, a group of 6 of us decided to head down early on Sunday morning. We met at The Steps parking lot, geared…