Chapter 738 737. Golden Island (1/5)

Chapter 738 737. Golden Island (15)

Back and forth, Li Du touched more than 20 large abalones a day.

This is not a lot of harvest, but the sea area where he is located is not rich in black gold abalone, and he has to hold his breath again and again to pry the abalone underwater. This is not like looking for gems in a national park, just bend down to pick it up.

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

However, underwater is cold and resistant, so Li Du has to rest for half an hour to drink hot cocoa and bask in the sun.

Compared with others, his work efficiency is already very high. In the evening, they put the abalones into the frozen storage box, ready to go to the market for sale the next morning.

There is a seafood market in Melbourne, and there are stalls collecting black gold abalone.

But in the morning, Li Du learned from the thieves that the local abalone fishermen would not sell these things in Melbourne, they would go to Tasmania across the water.

Tasmania is the only island state in the Commonwealth of Australia. It mainly includes the main island of Tasmania, Bruny Island, King Island, Flinders Island, Macquarie Island and many small coastal islands. "Natural State", also known as "Island of Apples", "Holiday State" and "Australian version of New Zealand".

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

The state's scenery is the most beautiful in Australia, with rolling mountains, rolling pastures, dense virgin forests and untouched white beaches.

Tasmania's wild world reserve accounts for about 20% of the state's area. The air on the island is fresh, the water is sweet and pure, and the land is even more fertile. It produces the best fresh fruits, vegetables and wine in Australia.

Li Du has heard of this beautiful island of Taoyuan for a long time, but he has not had the chance to set foot on the island. This time his destination is Jindao.

Jindao has a certain relationship with Heijin abalone. This island is the place where Heijin abalone was first produced, and until now, it is still the place where Heijin abalone and other abalones are produced most.

Therefore, the island has the largest abalone market in the southern hemisphere. This market also sells seafood, but the most is abalone. The world's top hotels purchase abalone from here.

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

After a night's rest, they took a fast ship to Jindao early the next morning, and traveled 140 kilometers for more than three hours.

However, Li Du had never been on a boat at sea, so he didn't think the journey was boring. He felt pretty good lying on the side of the boat and looking at the vast and waveless ocean.

Ah Ao also has a good feeling for the ocean, and he followed him to lie on the railing and look down. The ship was moving fast, and the sea breeze was blowing, and it opened its mouth and whined against the wind.

Some people thought it was a dog and thought it was very interesting, so they came to tease it.

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

First of all, unlike mainland Australia, the public security on the island is relatively poor. Hooligans and hooligans hang out on it all day long. Try not to reveal your money when you travel, and try to bring as little cash as possible. Keep other important things in the hotel safe.

Secondly, the most annoying people on shore are not the local hooligans, but the sailors.

Sailors often go ashore to get a rest, and they will continue to go to sea soon. If they are beaten, robbed or something, it will be difficult to find them later.

In short, sailors are more unscrupulous than punks.

Furthermore, there are many helicopter tourist spots in Jindao. You can spend money to take a helicopter to go around the island twice, overlooking the ocean and the island to appreciate another style.

With these experiences and several subordinates, Li Du finally set foot on the port of this small island.

Today happens to be Sunday. There are very few residents on the island, and the economy is mainly dependent on tourism, so weekends will be very lively. All shops and supermarkets open early, and vendors are constantly walking around on the street pushing sales carts.

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

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

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

The Tasmanians are the aboriginals of Tasmania, which can be judged from the name, but they became extinct in the middle of the nineteenth century, because the European white colonists came to Australia to persecute them.

The young man selling art was lying, but the wood carvings and stone carvings he sold were both good. After looking at them, Li Du chose a very beautiful shell carving.

Shell carving is a work of art carved out of shells. The colorful and gorgeous color 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 deserves 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, and it only costs 500 Australian dollars to buy."

This price surprised Li Du, five hundred Australian dollars? It's also 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 of good color and appearance. The most valuable thing about a black golden abalone is its meat, and the shells are worth dozens of dollars at most.

As a result, it was sold for 500 yuan after a simple polish, which was unacceptable to Li Du.

He shook his head and refused, and the young man was displeased: "Sir, this kind of shell carving is the belief of our local people. Since you don't want to buy it, you can't touch it. If you touch it, then you have to buy it, otherwise we will buy it." It is not convenient to sell it again.”

As soon as Li Du listened to the music, is he planning to buy and sell by force? Still using words like trust in faith to fool people, treating him as a coward who has never seen the world?

However, he didn't want to be as knowledgeable as a young man, so he waved to the people behind him and told the young man, "These are my bodyguards. Their monthly salary is only 500 Australian dollars. How about you give me a shell carving?" Shall I lend you one as a bodyguard?"

Looking up at the astonishingly tall Godzilla and Dao, the young man left in despair. They are good at bullying the weak and fearing the strong and playing rogues, rather than head-on.

As soon as this kind of thing happened when he left the port, Li Du became more careful. The security of this island is not ordinary.