Cape Leveque

Today was our looking around Cape Leveque day. We started at the Kooljaman Resort where we had coffee and cake then a walk down to the beach and a look at their beach shelters. This is a pretty place and looks good to stay at, but the beach was not quite as friendly and also rough due to the wind. The beach shelters are quite unique and offer a good alternative to a normal campground experience. After Kooljaman we went onto Cygnet Bay Pearl Farm which produces Cyngeture Pearls and is the oldest working Australian pearl farm. We went on a tour and learnt some history of the farm and the area, and also how pearls are cultivated. We were then shown some of the pearls for sale and the various shapes and sizes. The girls tried on a $52,000 pearl string and we also saw a single 22mm pearl valued at $72,000. From Cygnet Bay we then went onto Bardi Aboriginal Community at One Arm Point. They have a fish hatchery where they breed various local species of marine life including barrimundi, green turtles, clownfish, mangrove jack and trochus shells. The man running the hatchery loved to get people to feed the barrimundi. He would tell them they would gently take the small bits of fish from their hand when in fact they would suck the fish in with a load "boof" noise scaring the bejesus out of everyone. We brought a locally produced polished trochus shell which are unique to this area.