![]() ![]() ![]() it’s peak WA,” Ms Riddy said, agreeing the pearl was “really amazing because they’re so unusual”. The excitement didn’t end after the amazing find.Īs guests tucked into pearl meat ceviche on the boat overlooking Cable Beach, prepared by on-board chefs as part of a seven-course sunset seafood banquet, humpback whales - just starting to arrive in Broome on their annual winter migration - frolicked nearby. Pictured today with the pearl after having it set as a necklace pendant. Camera Icon Colleen Sheehan, the now retired Weeding Women founder who bagged a rare gold pearl on her 70th birthday on Monday during a Broome gourmet tour. “It was just wonderful, it was just magical and I couldn’t believe it,” Ms Sheehan said. ![]() “I’d already thought to myself ‘if there’s a pearl, I want to buy that as a memento of my 70th’.” “The first one he opened, he said ‘oh my God!’ He’s never seen one before and was absolutely raving,” Ms Sheehan told The West Australian. Weeding Women founder Colleen Sheehan said one of the captains had warned the shells sometimes contained no pearl. Camera Icon The golden pearl was valued at $280 as it has a slight imperfection, compared to $1200 for the more perfect white pearl (right) also uncovered on the tour. ![]()
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