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Hi all, this is my second attempt at writing this blog since my computer crashed and lost what I had been writing.

 

8/6/10 We went off to the post office so Nan could post of the large mountain worth of post cards we had collected over the trip. While N&P where doing that I went and had a look for a book, since I had finished the one I had in less then a week (damn I wish books lasted longer). I ended up with a book called Red Dirt Dairies I haven't read that far in but it seems good.

 

We then set off down (or up I don't know) to china town to go to the pearling Museum. Nan wants me to do a short report on it.

 

Pearl Masters arrived in the early 1870s and diving began in Roebuck Bay, quickly making Broome the pearling capital of the world.
 
Japanese, Chinese and Islanders were the main divers, along with some local aboriginal people. They braved drowning, the bends divers paralysis and the storms that wrack the Kimberley in the cyclone season.

 

When they started the only had naked diving (IE Sending indigenous down to depths of 5 meters). Then hard hat diving was invented which enabled them to go to around 60 meters deep. To keep them selfs warm they needed three pairs of thick woolen stockings, jumpers , pants and gloves, They needed the large suit over the top and the helmit as well as about 100kg of waits. When you add it all together they wore about 150kg.

 

After the tour we went to the beach and I had a lovely swim. Then we got out and I went on a camel ride. The camel I rode was a lot like Pally.

 

I hope you get a ruff idea of the pearling