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You don't need to buy the most expensive. I'm on my second Chinese one in 12 or so years. I use the brass collets but put a course material Band aid over each one. I enjoyed reading your line Wendy.

Thanks for asking Katbran, Bron and I are enjoying farm life now that the south easterlies have begun. Life in regards the weather is quite predictable now until maybe November. We've nearly finished a total rebuild of our operations room on the end of the wharf. Currently cleaning last years...

Definitely NOT South Sea Keshi.

On average South Sea pearls have 2 to 3mm of nacre on the nuclei. You'll only ever know if you have them x-rayed or gently cut them in half. The pearls shape will have bearing on the overall thickness as well. With the more formal shapes, roll them around in your fingers to see if there's any...

Nail polish it is. The girl's at the local ******** used to get a giggle out of me requesting it but, my client's have never complained about a tied stand.

You might be surprised Pearl-Guider's that the lugger called Kim B7 as they are sailing out has been on the market for quite a while now. It's been modified quite a bit but was doing sunset cruises out of Darwin. Lovely boat but you've got to be a fanatic to keep up with the maintenance on a...

Well done Mikeyy, it's amazing to see old footage for comparison to the modern day.

Thanks for posting this. Bron and I have just watched this and are wondering if it's a promotion video or something. We got the impression the disease relates to hatchery shell. The flamboyant reference to reduced profit's does not acknowledge reduced world prices due to over supply. This we...

It was most enjoyable being a witness to the good times through these pic's. Douglas congrat's on the pearls and mabe's.

Thank's for the nice comment's folks. Gem Geek, Bron and I we know who you are and thank you for the encouragement to come back. Now I've worked out how to put pic's up, I'll try and keep people up to date visually with some pic's of the day to day of our Pearl farm life on this thread, if...

Most of the year this is the view from the wharf.

Now Ladies and Gentlemen, there's nothin finer than this lot in front of you at the end of a day's harvesting.

That's two pic's up in a few minutes. I'm feeling pretty slick. At this point I should thank my wife Bronwyn for coming back into the office about five times to help me. This pic highlight's the usual reaction of people when someone say's CROC.

I'm not very computer literate. That previous pic is our raft on the end of the wharf. If you turn left after the trees you are facing the mouth of Escape River and the Coral Sea. Although we are in a Mangrove Estuary, the ocean is not far away. This pic is of our NON Hi Tech operations room...

Hey All, we just did our forth harvest a few week's back. Pretty exciting times. Now to see if I can put some pic's up.