For much of the first part of our trip it rained, as you can see in this photo by the lack of color.
We took a rather unexciting trip down the river with a jeep ride through flower "plantations" back to the dock. To get there we passed a number of these black pearl shacks/homes. When we went on our Baltic cruise everywhere we went they were selling amber, this cruise it was black pearls. We learned a lot about these beautiful pearls & yes I did get a necklace.
The oysters that house the black pearls are the most pampered oysters in the world so I didn't feel bad about getting a pearl.