We got up in the morning to do an early swim. It was still pretty cold outside, being about 28 degrees so it was pretty hard to go into the water but it was fine when we did. We swam in there for about an hour until we got out. After that, we went to the market in front of the courthouse. There was heaps of stalls and so many pearls on sale. We got a mango smoothie as well! After the market, we drove to a pearl farm. It had a 4wd track to it and we went through a very sandy bit. When we got there, we took a look at the lake and at a small pool where there were some really big Koi fish swimming in there. We did a tour on the pearl farm, which started in the oyster nursery. It had 4 bath looking objects where the oysters with potential pearls in them would be stored. They explained how the pearl fishing worked, and why it was so inefficient. In the wild, the odds of finding a pearl is 1 in 10,000. Meaning that they need to pick up 10,000 oysters to get 1 pearl and it kills the oyster to check if it had a pearl so it was pretty bad for the environment as well. In the farms, they collect an oyster and place a round ball of unsellable pearl or a piece of shell from a similar oyster species. This gives the oyster an 80% chance to get a pearl. After they explained why people farm the oysters, they took us into a boat onto the river where we saw some active oyster caring nets. After the river, we had some afternoon tea that they gave us and then they lead us into a gazebo. In the oyster nursery, we picked up a live oyster and now we were going to see if there was a pearl in there. Each oyster makes 4 pearls in the farm before they become unreliable, so they kill the oyster and use the meat in the restaurant and the shell to sell mother of pearl (which is what I bought). He cut open the oyster and explained the anatomy of it and how it works and then felt for a pearl in it. When we found one, he cut open the part of the oyster that was around it and then took it out. It was a really good pearl as it was shiny, big and pretty round with it being an acorn shape. After he took the pearl out, we went into the shop area where he explained how the pearls get priced and the price of the pearl we took out of the oyster. The price of it was $2,230. Apparently, it was the most expensive pearl they had gotten all day. After we went to the pearl farm, we came back to the van and drove onto the beach to eat dinner while watching the sunset. The sunset was super red, and it was nice to eat dinner there. After we left the beach, we came back to the van and went to bed.