737.Gold Island (1/5)

Before and after, Li Du touched more than 20 large abalone in one day. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

It's not a lot of money, but the area he's in is not a black gold abalone production area, and he has to hold his breath again and again to pry the abalone underwater, which is no better than looking for gems in the national park, just bend down and pick them up.

Often, it takes him more than ten minutes to catch a black abalone.

And the cold underwater resistance is great, Li Dugan has to rest for half an hour for half an hour, drink some hot cocoa, and bask in the sun.

He was already very productive compared to the others, and in the evening, they put the abalone in a freezer and prepared to sell it at the market the next morning.

Melbourne has a seafood market with black gold abalone collection stalls.

But in the morning he learned from the thieves that the local abalone fishermen would not sell the stuff in Melbourne and would go across the water to Tasmania.

Tasmania is the only island state in the Commonwealth of Australia, mainly including the main island of Tasmania and Bruny Island, Gold Island, Flinders Island, Macquarie Island and many coastal islands.

The main island of Tasmania is located 240 kilometres south of Melbourne, separated by Bass Strait, while the abalone market is not on the main island, it is located on the Golden Island in the middle of Bass Strait, about 140 kilometres away from Melbourne.

The state's landscape is one of the most beautiful in Australia, with rolling mountains, rolling pastures, lush native forests and unspoiled white sand beaches.

Tasmania's Wild World Reserve covers about 20% of the state's area, with clean air, sweet water and fertile land that produces some of Australia's finest fresh fruit, vegetables and wine.

Li Du had heard of this beautiful island of paradise for a long time, but he had not yet had a chance to set foot on the island, and this time his destination was on Golden Island.

There is a certain connection between Golden Island and Black Gold Abalone, this island was the first place to produce Black Gold Abalone, and to this day, it is still the place where the most abalone such as Black Gold Abalone are produced.

As a result, the island has the largest abalone market in the southern hemisphere, and this market also sells seafood, but the most abundant abalone is the source of abalone, and the world's top hotels buy abalone from here.

In this case, it is easy to understand that abalone at the Golden Island Seafood Market can be sold at a higher price than other places, because there are no second-class sellers here, and it is directly the customers and fishermen who trade face-to-face.

After a night's rest, they took a fast steamer to Golden Island early the next morning, a journey of more than three hours on a 140-kilometer journey.

However, Li Du has never been on a boat at sea, so he doesn't feel that the journey is boring, and he feels good when he lies on the side of the boat and looks at the vast ocean.

Ah Hao also felt good about the ocean, and followed him to lie on the railing and look down, the ship was moving fast, and the sea breeze was 'whirring', and it opened its mouth to whine against the wind.

Some people thought it was a dog and thought it was funny, so they came over and played with it.

During such a three-hour flight, there were always people chatting with Li Du, many of whom were residents living on Golden Island, and told him some experiences of living on the island.

First of all, unlike the mainland of Australia, the security on the island is relatively poor, gangsters and hooligans float on it all day long, and try not to expose money when traveling, try to bring as little cash as possible, and leave other important things in the hotel safe.

Secondly, the last people to be messed with on the shore are not local hooligans, but sailors.

Sailors often go ashore to trim themselves, and they will soon continue to go to sea, and if they are beaten, robbed, or whatever, it will be difficult to find them later.

In short, the sailors were more unscrupulous than the gangsters.

In addition, there are many helicopter tourist spots in Golden Island, and you can spend money to take a helicopter around the island twice, overlooking the ocean and the island, you can enjoy another style.

With this experience and a few of his men, Li Du finally set foot on the harbor of this small island.

Today happens to be a Sunday, the island has few residents, and the economy is mainly dependent on tourism, so the weekend will be lively, with all the shops and supermarkets opening early, and vendors constantly pushing sales carts around the streets.

The infrastructure of the island is relatively average, compared to Melbourne, it is simply a sky and an underground.

There are only two streets in the center of the island, which intersect like a cross, and then divide the agglomeration of the island into four parts.

Li Du walked out of the port, and someone immediately came to him to sell: "Sir, do you need traditional Tasmanian handicrafts? My family has Tasmanian ancestry, which is an orthodox Aboriginal art." ”

Tasmanians are indigenous to Tasmania, as the name suggests, but they became extinct in the mid-nineteenth century due to the persecution of white European colonists who came to Australia to persecute them.

The young man who sold the art was lying, but the wood and stone carvings he was selling were good, and Li Du looked at it and chose a very beautiful shell carving artwork.

The shell carving is a work of art carved out of shells, and the colorful and colorful one he chose is a rare black gold abalone shell carving.

From this shell carving, you can see how beautiful the black gold abalone shell is, and it lives up to its nickname of underwater rainbow.

Seeing that he had chosen this work of art, the young man said, "Your vision is very good, sir, this is a very rare black gold abalone shell carving, which can be bought for only five hundred Australian dollars." ”

This price shocked Li Du, five hundred Australian dollars? This is too expensive.

An ordinary black gold abalone is only 500 Australian dollars, and it can be sold for 1,000 Australian dollars if it is in good condition and in excellent condition, and the most valuable thing about black gold abalone is its meat, and the shell is worth dozens of dollars at most.

As a result, after a simple polishing, it was sold for 500 yuan, which Li Du couldn't accept.

He shook his head and refused, and the young man was displeased: "Sir, this kind of shell carving is the belief of our locals, since you don't want to buy it, then you can't touch it, if you touch it, then you have to buy it, otherwise it is inconvenient for us to sell it again." ”

Li Du was amused when he heard it, this is planning to buy and sell by force? He also used this kind of words of faith to fool people, when he was a coward who had never seen the world?

However, he didn't want to be like a young man, so he beckoned to a few people behind him, and then told the young man: "These are my bodyguards, and their monthly salary is only 500 Australian dollars, why don't you give me a shell carving, and I will lend you one as a bodyguard?"

Looking up at the tall and amazing Godzilla and O'O, the young people left in a gray way, they are good at bullying the weak and afraid of the hard and playing scoundrels, not hard to fight.

As soon as he came out of the port, Li Du became careful, the security of this island is not ordinary.