Showing posts with label Pearling. Cable Beach. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pearling. Cable Beach. Show all posts

Saturday, 3 July 2010

Cable Beach - Her beauty and her terror


Beneath the waters of Roebuck Bay and out into the depths of the Indian Ocean, grow the wild oysters which lured pearling masters such as Ancell Gregory, and led to the inhumane conditions for divers endured by enslaved indigenous boys and desperate Japanese islanders. Yet the beauty on the surface is bewitching.