In addition to feeding sharks and the paradise-like lagoon Repulse Bay, Bora Bora Island also has an activity that is very popular among tourists, that is, the Black Pearl Collection.

The same thing, when people mention Tahiti or French Polynesia, their first impression must be black pearls!

Black pearls are not produced elsewhere, but only natural black pearls produced in Tahiti are qualified to be known as the "Queen of Pearl".

Just like Hetian jade, Russia, the West Sea, and Central Asia all produce Hetian jade, but only the white jade produced in Hetian can be qualified to be called "Hetian jade".

The same is true for jade. Jade is produced in many places around the world, and even in China, there are jade production places. However, only jade produced along the Wulu River in northern Myanmar is worth gem-grade jade.

In fact, before the 20th century, the number of natural black pearls in Tahiti was not small, but as the black butterfly shells were over-picked, the black butterfly shells that produced natural black pearls in Tahiti were once on the verge of extinction. The production of natural black pearls plummeted. By the 1950s, there were no few natural black pearls found in a year.

In this case, people began to try to cultivate black pearls manually.

In the first year of the 1960s, people established the first black pearl breeding base in the lagoon of Balabara Island. After success, they also established black pearl breeding bases on other islands in Tahiti.

That's right, Tahiti's first artificial black pearl breeding base is on Balabara Island. Moreover, the so-called Tahiti black pearl is not just the black pearl produced around Tahiti Island, but refers to the black pearl produced in various islands of the social archipelago under French Polynesia.

Balabara Island used to be rich in natural black pearls, but now it is the largest production base for artificially breeding black pearls.

The history of artificially breeding black pearls on Balabara Island has been 60 years old, and there are many artificial black pearl farms in the lagoon surrounding the main island.

These farms use special breeding lines to breed black butterfly shells. There are countless division lines on one main line. There are generally about seven to ten black butterfly shells hanging on one division line. Of course, these black butterfly shells have been inserted into the core.

It is obviously a long time for ordinary black butterfly shells to form black pearls after two years of insertion into the nucleus.

Most of the Black Pearl Farms on Bora Bora Island are located in the lagoon in the northeast of the main island. Because there is a unique natural environment here. In the lagoon between the outer atoll and the main island, there is also a large coral reef, which divides the lagoon into two layers inside and outside. The outer layer is a shallow shallow, and the deepest water depth is only seven or eight meters. The outer layer is mostly the territory of major hotels, which allows tourists to dive.

The water depth of the inner layer ranges from one or two meters to the deepest forty or fifty meters, which is the most suitable for breeding black pearls.

Because the breeding of black pearls also requires a certain depth of water.

Liu Mo'ang, Chu Qian and some tourists in the hotel were dragged to a breeding farm located in this area by a yacht.

The owner of the farm does not seem to be a local, because the boss speaks French, and the big hook nose is also proving his identity. He should be a Frenchman or French descendant.

After all, this is an overseas territory of France.

The boss seemed very enthusiastic. Not only did he receive more than a dozen tourists personally, but he also led them to visit his Black Pearl Breeding Farm.

The boss was personally a tour guide. His English was not very fluent, but it was also understandable to tourists. Liu Mo'ang's English skills were not very good, but he couldn't resist a wife next to him who was proficient in English and a little French.

The big-nosed boss of the farm first introduces the process of artificially breeding black pearls to tourists. The key point will introduce you to how long it will take to cultivate a black pearl, as if this artificially cultivated black pearl is more difficult to make than natural black pearls.

In fact, the number of black pearls produced in Tahiti every year is about 150,000, almost all of which are artificially cultivated black pearls. There are also real natural black pearls, but natural black pearls with good quality will be directly purchased by some large jewelry companies. Even if tourists who are not short of money will buy them directly, they will directly purchase natural black pearls that can be seen occasionally.

Of course, the price is naturally not comparable to artificially cultivated black pearls.

Nowadays, artificially cultivated Tahitian black pearls are usually only one or two thousand yuan on the market. Okay, well, it is rare on the market. As the saying goes, most of them are wrapped up by jewelry companies. Naturally, those who flow to the market are left.

But here, the value of a black pearl is 250 euros!

Yes, it is not free to come here to collect black pearls. Although the yacht is free from the hotel, there is no ticket to the farm. And you also tell you that you can choose one of the ten Fritillaria here for free.

All of the above are free, but once you choose a black butterfly and intend to open it, you will have to pay 250 euros.

If you are not satisfied with the black pearls inside after opening, you can change one of the black pearls mined from the farm for free.

Well, that 250 euros is the price of beads.

As for the quality of the black pearls, let’s not mention it. You can think of the color of the black pearls prepared for you in the farm with your heels. Whether it is the farmed fritillaria or the black pearls you are about to replace, they are mostly beads with a market price of about 1,000 yuan...

Don’t forget that the black pearls on the market are all peeled layer by layer. The black pearls on the market that cost about a thousand yuan are estimated to be worth a few hundred yuan here.

But the price sold to tourists is actually 250 euros!

At least 300% profit!

But, many tourists are so happy about this activity. After all, this black pearl was collected by tourists "handedly", and the sense of accomplishment is absolutely different.

Liu Mo'ang was not very interested in this kind of activity. But he couldn't resist the attractiveness of things like black pearls to women is no less than diamond jade. In order to make his wife happy, Liu Mo'ang had to accompany his wife to collect black pearls.

The price of 250 euros is nothing to the net worth of two people, as long as the wife is happy.

When the boss of Big Nose finished speaking, the next step is the project of collecting black pearls that tourists are most concerned about.

The Big Nose Boss has several local hires here who are both bead-picking and can serve as tour guides. Visitors will go into the water to pick beads with their help.

Liu Mo'ang's water quality is still great, so Chu Qian is naturally not bad either. Both of them are still good at diving. However, Chu Qian has really professionally trained diving, while Liu Mo'ang is purely a dirt path.

However, because of his perverted physical fitness and Old Liu's already great aquatic nature, he is definitely a master even when playing free diving. When he was in the Maldives, Liu Mo'ang said that he had been holding his breath for a long time, but Chu Qian didn't believe it. As a result, Liu Mo'ang breathed in front of Chu Qian for five or six minutes, almost shocking Chu Qian's chin shell.

In fact, five or six minutes of breathing is far from Liu Mo'ang's limit, but he doesn't dare to be too arrogant, so he has never tried to challenge his own limit.

Chu Qian also likes free diving instead of wearing scuba diving. After all, compared with free diving, the probability of decompression illness in wearing scuba diving is higher.

Moreover, although Chu Qian likes free diving, she almost never goes deep. The deepest depth of her diving is only seven or eight meters, and most of her time she spends playing free diving at a depth of four or five meters.

Wear scuba diving for deep diving. If you don’t pay attention after the depth exceeds 30 meters, you will easily get decompression disease. If you dive frequently to a depth of 20 meters, you will also easily get decompression disease.

Although free diving can also cause decompression disease if it is too frequent, if it is a shallow depth, it will not cause decompression disease.

Accompanied by the farm, the two came down to a wooden trest bridge that penetrated deep into the sea. At the end of the trest bridge, there was a wooden house with snorkeling tools such as masks, flippers, and scuba tools. The key was to see what method the tourists chose to dive.

After changing into diving equipment, you will take the canoe of the farm to the real farm.

Sitting on the canoe, you can clearly see the breeding lines floating more than two meters below the water surface. These breeding lines, the thickness of the arm, are the main lines, the depth of the main lines sag from two meters to a depth of forty or fifty meters. By pulling the main lines, you can bring the sub-line in the deep water area, and then tourists can choose the black butterfly shell on the sub-line.

Once a secondary line is selected, the employee will cut off the secondary line and bring the secondary line together with the black butterfly shell onto the boat. When you return to the other side of the pier, you can choose one of the black butterfly shells to open.

Liu Mo'ang subconsciously opened the small world of the Five Elements again, but this time he was controlled, so he did not emit life energy outward, but opened a three-dimensional vision and felt the majestic life energy in the sea water.

This is a tropical sea, with countless animals living in the sea water. Not to mention anything else, the coral reefs here and the countless still alive coral polyps have made the life energy here extremely abundant.

To be honest, this abundant life energy made Liu Mo'ang feel a little regretful. If the Five Elements Small World had not been anchored to Tianlu Inn, he really wanted to bring the Five Elements Small World here.

This abundant life energy is simply not comparable to that of the barren Yubacuo.

But this idea is just to think about it. The energy supporting the small world of the Five Elements is not only life energy, but also the energy of the Five Elements is also indispensable. On such islands, there is no shortage of water or wood, but where does the fire come from? Well, maybe there is fire on the volcano under the sea, but what about gold? Where is the earth?

So, let’s be honestly anchored to Tianlu Inn.

Once the three-dimensional vision is opened, you can immediately see clearly what individuals exuding life energy.

From dense coral polyps to constantly swimming tropical fish, to the dense black butterfly shells under the water of the farm...

Suddenly, Liu Mo'ang felt three different life energies. He was sure that these three different life energies were the same as those emitted by the black butterfly shells in the farm, but why are these three life energies far more abundant than the black butterfly shells artificially grown!
Chapter completed!