Description

The Old Pearler Restaurant claims that it is the only restaurant in the world built entirely of tiny coquina shells from near Hamelin Pool. The restaurant was reputedly built by an Englishman who in 1974 took more than three years cutting the shell blocks at a local quarry site and subsequently constructing the building. The blocks are formed when tiny cockle shells (Fragum erugatum) compact and cement themselves. There are also other buildings in this area made of the material, take a look at information boards around the town.