Things to do in Mooney Mooney, NSW: Can I visit Broken Bay Pearl Farm?
A visit to Broken Bay Pearl Farm is one of the best things to do in Mooney Mooney on the New South Wales Central Coast. Tours include learning how pearls are cultivated and a Hawkesbury River cruise.
Mooney Mooney, NSW, is the first neighbourhood of the Central Coast you arrive in after driving north from Sydney over the Pacific Motorway. It’s the other side of the Hawkesbury River from Brooklyn in Sydney.
Things to do in Mooney Mooney, NSW
Top of the list of things to do in Mooney Mooney is visiting Broken Bay Pearl Farm. Ayoka pearls are grown at this working pearl farm. The owners claim that Ayoka pearls are more than 1,000 times rarer than diamonds.
Broken Bay Pearl Farm is also a tourist experience. Visitors can also rock up to a revamped oyster shed by the Hawkesbury River, then go on a two hour pearl farm tour.
Broken Bay Pearl Farm and Hawkesbury River cruise
These Hawkesbury River pearl farm tours start with a short theatre presentation. This covers what pearls are, how they get inside the oysters and the history of pearl farming in Australia. But you also go out to the oysters themselves on a mini Hawkesbury River cruise. These cruises aboard the oyster punt Rose show how the oysters are farmed and cultivated.
The Broken Bay Pearl Farm tour in Mooney Mooney costs $85, and lasts around two hours. Advance bookings are essential.
At the end, you can buy pearl jewellery and Indigenous artwork.
Broken Bay Pearl Farm is the sister farm of the Cygnet Bay Pearl Farm on the Dampier Peninsula near Broome in Western Australia. For more information, visit the Broken Bay Pearl Farm website.
You’ll pass through Mooney Mooney on the drive from Sydney to Newcastle or Sydney to Port Macquarie.
More New South Wales travel
Go fishing, birdwatching or swimming at Yarramundi Reserve on the Grose River
Go walking in the Macquarie Pass National Park on the drive from Bowral to Wollongong.
Stop for wine tasting at Clonakilla on the Yass to Canberra drive.
Try stand-up paddleboarding on Lake Illawarra near Wollongong.
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