The Weirdest & Funniest Pearl Farm in the World

And this is basically the way we were designated by National Geographic in their “World’s Weirdest” TV Series, under the “Funniest Farms” banner. The program aired back in February 14th of 2014 in NatGeo’s TV network but we were totally oblivious since the program has not been dubbed nor sub-titled and has never aired in Spanish speaking countries. So we just kind of forgot that we had been visited by Nick Patterson and Pete Allibone of WAG.TV productions back in December of 2012 to film our pearl farming operation (you can go back an read all about it here), but then about a month ago we heard from some of our visitors that they had seen the episode were our farm was featured!

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I started looking for the program and almost immediately hit a wall: not available in YouTube and when I found it in both Amazon’s video service and on Xbox Video I was really happy! until I noticed it would not allow me to buy it because it is not available in “My Region” (whatever this means while on the Internet). This was a total let down…so I got in contact with good old Nick (who was placidly tanning himself somewhere in the Caribbean) and he sent me a link to watch the whole show. Finally, after only 18 months, we could finally see the end product of that long and interesting work day with these absolute TV professionals. The results were amazing.

Since I cannot share the entire video for obvious reasons, I decided to make a very short (40 seconds) video of the episode on the pearl farm. It obviously lacks everything but gives you an idea of what to expect, so I do hope you will enjoy watching it.

 

Personal Thoughts

I really enjoyed the show. Found it has a disturbingly interesting way to entertain, amuse and befuddle you with words like “feces”, “testicles” or witty comments such as “…if the oyster dies, I can always eat it!” when I was operating an oyster. But above these…the imagery: Pete had a great chance to film that day when they visited us. A cold-front was coming in and we had a major fog-bank in the bay, which led to one of the best and most beautiful time-lapses I have seen of this area. Simply stunning.

The end result was entirely eclectic: a mixture of seriousness and humor, of marvelous photography of Bacochibampo Bay amidst the fog and of the pearl seeding operation, of the pearl farm and of the pearl harvest. Basically: the whole enchilada.

It was truly a very professional job and we are very grateful to Nick, Pete, the crew at WAG.TV and NatGeo for their visit and for showing the world our curiously weird and little pearl farm in the Sea of Cortez.

Do you want to know our Pearl Farm??? What are you waiting for!!! Guaymas and San Carlos are a marvelous place to vacation and you can also visit one of the World’s Funniest and Weirdest Pearl Farms in the World…right here in Sonora, Mexico.