At a time when others only dreamed of growing pearls in Broomes giant oysters, the pioneering Brown family mastered the secrets to coax the perfect pearls to life. With an Aussie can-do attitude they created Cygnet Bay Pearl Farm in the 1960s, the oldest Australian-owned and-operated pearl farm and producer of the worlds largest fine-quality pearlthe size of a 10-cent coin.
From seven years living in a paperbark hut alongside the local Bardi Jawi people, to herding goats and snakes, and managing a male work crew of pearl technicians, divers and deckhands, Australias First Lady of Pearls shares her life of adventure raising two children and building an entire community in the isolated tropical paradise of Western Australias north.
