Broome Holidays ( day five)

Monday 28 June.

After Breakfast at the Zoo cafe, we returned

to the resort where we were met by a

good looking girl from the car rental.

(she could not drive, stall the car 3 times

and ran over corners of footpaths)

She drove to the shop for the papers work

and then we were on our way to

"Willie Creek Pearl Farm"

around the pearl farm

a pearling oyster, they are huge.

Only the whitish muscle in the middle is eatable

This is the nucleus they put in the oyster.

They start with a piece of shell (from the

Mississippi mussel)

make it round, and them implant it

Beautiful pearls

a fortune in my hand

flukes but they still make jewellery out of them

I like this one, but still toooooooooo expensive.

It is a faulty one, they mont those either

with a circle of gold or a cap on.

The hatchery
The oysters are suspended in panels from

longlines several metres from the surface.

The guide show us a panel and show us

how to clean them of the marine organisms

which grow on them.

They X ray those panel to see if the oyster

has rejected the nucleus and also to

check on the size of the pearl.

looking for crocodiles

(did not see any)

In the evening we drove to Town Beach.

Sunday, Monday and Tuesday

are the days you can see the

"stairway to the moon"

when the moon get up

the light of it on the mud make stairs

I don't have a good enough camera,

but they are souvenirs.

It was very impressive.

It only happen when there is a full moon

so we were lucky to be there at

the right time.

On those days they have a market and

food stalls and music.

It was great we bought food found a nice

spot to eat and wait for the moon.