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Good to see my mate (and Fijian counterpart) Justin tell it like it is. And great work Josh with the camera. Every time I watch one of your vids I learn something new about making the subject matter a little more dynamic.

Wow, thanks everyone. :) It's been really great and encouraging getting all the positive feedback. Since the blog started I have been doing one every weekend so part two will be here in a day or so.

What the GIA Pearl Course says! Caitlin I knew that you knew that I knew that you knew I was kidding. ;)

Hi Pearlies, I think that $1,900 for an extremely rare necklace of Tahitian pearls with over-the-moon color is not too much to pay. What bothers me though is the photos. It seems to me that they have been enhanced (saturated) to boost the colors in way that makes them look a little over the...

Very true what you said Jeremy about it being easy to dis what you don't understand. For me CFWP's are super mysterious and many-tentacled. I'd be fooling myself to say that that industry as a whole was not threatening.

Mwahaha...

Hey, I aint Joshin' about that ten pounds! Think two dinner plates with a critter inside. :D

Hi Cathy, I'm not sure that the smuggling tarnishes all Tahitian black pearls. I would like to think that pearls with an identifiable provenance shine as brightly as ever. :)

Hi everyone, this is a teaser of a blog entry http://tinyurl.com/3szxxqm that I just wrote. Been having fun "putting to paper" some pearly adventures. I could feel it in my eyelids as well as my legs and back and arms. The moment I savored most each day was coming fast. Pulling a sheet over...

Josh I know what you mean about always being behind the camera. ;) Great pic.

Come on Caitlin, why would I kill a wild oyster? Isn't there enough mollusc suffering as it is? I mean just think about all that irritating sand that they have to deal with as it is ;)

Oh man, this sounds like so much fun. I would drive from Portland, probably. Be great to share costs on a van. What are others thinking? Fly to Vancouver first? I'm thinking of saving money and having a road trip (photo opportunities, roadside mushroom foraging, etc). What works for...

Hi Sheryl, Not sure what happened. My answer to your post vanished. Yes! I'm coming down to get my boogie on for sure! Can't wait! :)

Jeremy, thanks for spelling this one out. There is no way that that pearl was exported through legal means. The nacre looks to be less than half a mm at it's thinnest (where it will be measured by export controls) which is no where near the minimum nacre thickness of legit Tahitian pearls...

Sick trailer Josh! Can't wait to see it!

Hi Lisa, It's the June 2011 issue. Hey Sheryl, yeah when are you going to get out to the farm anyway? The pearl contest will be run off the Islands Magazine website any day now, don't know exactly when.

Photo, photo, photo!

Thanks Donna, thanks Josh! I'm feeling that proverb about how a 1000 mile journey starts with on step.;)

Anna that was awesome. :D

Ramona, Islands hits a pretty cashed up demographic actually. Maybe I just haven't been patient enough. I know they are waiting with their credit cards and Paypal accounts to clean us out so we can make lot's more pearls! Dave, we usually fly to Ahe (www.airtahiti.pf) then boat from the...