<h4>Chapter 767: Land of Idyllic Beauty</h4>


    Trantor: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio


    After reading the ocean weather forecast and determining that the weather in the offshore area was rtively calm in the middle of April, Li Du prepared to leave the ind for another area.


    His harvest on King Ind was almostplete. There was plenty of ck gold abalone around, but after years of harvest, there was not much left that was of legal harvesting size or that was easily essible by freediving.


    Most of the rest of the abalone was in rtively deep waters. He wouldn’t dare harvest them by freediving.


    Money was precious, but life was worth more!


    King Ind was located in the Bass Strait, with Melbourne and Victoria to the north, and Tasmania to the south.


    The Bass Strait was very long, and there were many inds around King Ind. These inds were often very small or were wildlife preserves, so they were uninhabited by humans.


    Li Du spected that there was definitely ck gold abalone living in those waters.


    This was not just a guess. It was a fact that many fishermen had caught ck gold abalone around the inds.


    However, it was more difficult to catch them in those ces. First, they were less popted, and second, there were more aquatic creatures and more dangerous conditions.


    For Li Du, that was not a problem. He was not afraid of there being fewer abalone because he wasn’t like the regr fishermen who used their eyes to look for abalone while diving.


    The little bug could locate abalone for him. He just had to follow it.


    Around mid-month, the SeaStar 60 sailed out to sea pulling along the speedboat.


    This time they started at noon, and as usual, they were followed.


    Mostly they were followed by speedboats or small boats. They could not go too far out to sea, or the fierce waves would destroy their boats.


    The SeaStar 60 was a yacht with a length of nearly 20 meters. It had arge discement and could withstand much stronger waves.


    Their yacht went far out to sea, and the boats following them couldn’t keep up.


    The ck gold abalone fishermen were very unfriendly, and when they saw Li Du sailing out to sea to get rid of them, they shouted, “You want to get rid of us? Dream on. You’ll be back, and we’ll be here waiting for you!”


    “Go on, go on! Be careful. You’re going to get hit by a wave out there and die!”


    “Next time, I’lle in a big boat. I’m warning you, don’t keep the harvest to yourself!”


    The insults came in fits and starts, and when Li Du and Hans could stand it no longer, they raised their middle fingers to the boats behind them.


    Lu Guan was also angry and said, “I really wish I had the ability to control the ocean. I would raise a big wave and dump them into the sea so that they would experience the consequences of being jerks!”


    “I wish that, too,” said Hans. “But powers only exist in movies and television. How could they actually exist?”


    “Doesn’t Boss have powers?” asked Big Quinn suddenly.


    Li Du was startled and looked at him in surprise. “What do you mean?”


    Big Quinn grinned with a row of white teeth. “You can see beyond what the average man can. Isn’t that a power? Lu Guan can hear more than an average person, which is a power, too.”


    “It’s a power that tortures me,” Lu Guan said gloomily. “But there’s no chance of it making me rich.”


    Li Du breathed a sigh of relief. “You don’t use it the right way,” he said with a wry smile. “Otherwise, it could help you a lot.”


    “I still want to be like you. Having amazing observation and eyesight,” said Lu Guan.


    “So do I. But if you can give me amazing hearing, the boss is right. That is a gift, and you’re not using it right,” said Big Quinn.


    “How can I use it to make money?” Lu Guan asked earnestly.


    They all began to discuss the topic.


    Li Du, who was not involved in the discussion, took a chart of the rip current distribution in the Bass Strait and Tasman Sea, andpared it with therge map to find the location of the possible distribution of the ck gold abalone.


    ording to his experience, he was looking for ces that fit these criteria: small inds or reefs around the edge of a rip current, surrounding seaweed, and underwater volcanoes.


    The small inds or reefs around them meant shallow water, as they could only survive in shallow water.


    The surrounding seaweed was a key part of the ck gold abalone’s food source, which could be transported by the rip current. The underwater volcanic belt was often a favorite habitat for the ck gold abalone.


    Soon, he determined a few positions and told Brother Wolf to set sail.


    To avoid being followed, they made a big curve and drove half a day at sea before reaching the first target area.


    The area was located between King Ind and the southeast corner of Australia, where there were several small inds.


    Li Du released the little bug to search, but the result was not very optimistic. There was indeed a ck gold abalone habitat, but the number of abalone was too small.


    The SeaStar 60 continued eastward into the Tasman Sea.


    Close to Cape Barren Ind, they reached another possible destination.


    There was no way to get into the sea. Cape Barren Ind had arge poption of sea lions and seals, some of which swam upstream to find food.


    Seals and sea lions were the natural enemies of abalone fishermen. Although these guys were cute and slow onnd, they were worthy beasts of prey in the water.


    These beasts were always hungry, and humans could easily be mistaken for big fish and be attacked. It was dangerous there, so Li Du couldn’t stay.


    They stayed on Cape Barren Ind for the night. Li Du was actually not disappointed.


    Their purpose was to travel, and making money was just icing on the cake.


    As the name suggested, Cape Barren Ind was an ind that one would expect to be small. However, it wasn’t. Australia was quiterge, and Cape Barren Ind was just an “edge” rtive to the Australian maind. However, it was quiterge for an ind.


    The ind was 42.3 kilometers long, 22.7 kilometers wide, and covered an area of 464 square kilometers.


    They came ashore from the east coast, where the ind’s first attraction, thegoons, were an important wend in Australia and around the world.


    Sand dunes and beaches on thegoon coast covered 4,370 hectares and were home to many waterbirds.


    They came ashore in thete afternoon during the warm autumn evening. Many seabirds had not yet left the southern hemisphere or were preparing to cross for the winter at the equator.


    So when they got into the coastal dunes, they saw something spectacr.


    There were numerousrge and small seabirds in the wend including pelicans, anhinga, cormorants, ck swans, various kinds of wild ducks, maskedpwings, purple pheasants, dusky moorhens, coots, African stonechat, Australian white ibis, Australian silver gull, and more. Li Du and the others were amazed.