Diamonds might not be a girls best friend. May 30

During the muster there are 3 bus tours offered to the Argyle diamond mine at $100 a head.
Any other time of the year it's fly in from Kununarra at $500 a head. We've booked
ourselves in for today. The one thing that is repeatedly stressed as we drive to the mine is
the degree of security involved and the number of cameras watching our every move. We are
told that if we drop anything on the ground we are not to pick it up but must ask the bus
driver or tour guide to do so. Rocks are not to be picked up as they may contain diamonds
and we are later shown the biggest diamond found in the wheels of one of the trucks known as
the star of the sump. The consequences of inadvertently do so are either a pat down, strip
search or body cavity search. Most of the time is spent on the bus looking at the
operations but we do get out to look at the open pit which coincides with a blasting. It was
a tad disappointing as apart from a loud bang and a small puff of smoke you wouldn't
have known it had happened. While wandering around the lookout it happened, Gavern dropped
his sunglasses. It all seemed to happen in slow motion. I'm sitting on the bus mouthing
nooooooooo as he slowly bends down towards his glasses. Im expecting a swarm of cars to come
screeching into the area, grab Gavern forcefully, throw him into one of the cars and drive
off. Thankfully he stopped mid bend and asked the guide to pick them up for him. He does
seem to spend at lot of time after that looking over his shoulder for a security guard
wearing rubber gloves. He's not that hard to pick out with the Santa beard. We are shown
the display room which features the necklace worn by Jennifer Hawkins, worth a cool half
million. I drag Gavern into the shop but our stay is short lived as the prices for the rarer
pink diamonds are way way way way out of our price range.