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Lost – Men’s 14k gold wedding band, New Smyrna Beach – FOUND !!!

  • from New Smyrna Beach (Florida, United States)
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Tuesday had started like so many Tuesdays do. My wife and I had settled into one of our favorite spots in DeLeon Springs when my phone buzzed with a text from Christian.

He had lost his wedding band on New Smyrna Beach.

I gave him a quick call. He sounded worried—almost desperate. He explained that he had lost his 14K gold wedding band the day before. He had placed it in the cup holder of his beach chair, but when they packed up to leave, the ring was gone. They searched for it but came up empty-handed.

I told Christian where I was and that I expected to be back in New Smyrna Beach by noon. Before heading out, I whispered a quick prayer, asking the Lord to protect the ring and keep it there until I could find it.

Once I returned to New Smyrna, I called Christian and told him I was on my way to the beach. When I arrived, he directed me to the area where they had been sitting.

I fired up my Minelab Manticore and began gridding the dry sand near the roadway. The heat was intense, with the bright sun beating down and radiating off the sand.

On my second pass, I got a promising signal.

I looked down, and there it was—a small, round circle barely protruding from the sand.

Could it really be?  I reached down and picked it up.  It was the ring!

I checked the inscription, and there was no doubt. I had found Christian’s wedding band.

I was incredibly grateful. The ring had been sitting there since the day before, and somehow no one had found it. I truly believe the Lord led me straight to it—and answered my prayer by getting it back to Christian and his wife Sarah, quickly.

Another ring saved. Another story of something thought to be lost forever, found.

I’m Detector Ed – Florida metal detecting specialist focused on recovering lost items. Whether it’s a ring, jewelry, keys, or even a phone, I search beaches, parks, yards, and shallow water—just about anywhere it might be hiding. 757-419-0299

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Gold, Diamond and Ruby Ring Missing for 25+ years

  • from Dallas (Texas, United States)
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We got a call from Kathleen, she is selling her family home and remembered that her Grandfather lost a very important ring in the yard one day 25+ Years Ago.  She said she had a dream about the ring and that it was in the front yard on the left side of the house.  Knowing the home would sell soon she got on the Internet and found us on “The Ring Finders.com”.  We came out the next day when it was 103 degrees in Garland, Texas.  Kathleen told us the story so Ellen and I geared up to start the search.  I began on the front left side of the house (just like Kathleen had seen in her dream) and had not gotten 10ft into my search next to a metal flower bed edging and got a 49-51 signal on my Garrett AT Pro so naturally I began to dig.  I turned over my first 5 inch scoop of dirt and the ring popped out.   I could not believe it myself.  25+ years and it was only 3-4 inches down.

Kathleen and her partner were so excited, tears and hugs and lot’s of “I can’t believe it” along with big smiles…. Another Great Find for the Ring Finders!

 

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Wedding Ring Recovered in Clayton

  • from Raleigh (North Carolina, United States)
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I got a text from Seth, telling me that he had just lost his wedding ring – that’s the usual part. The *UN*usual part is that he and his wife have been married almost two years and they’ve just now finally paid off the rings. Yikes! What a time to lose the ring! We made arrangements to get together at his house. It turns put that Seth had been trimming a holly bush and between getting stuck by the holly leaves and sweating heavily (95 degrees and >90% humidity), the ring had come off his finger and he hadn’t noticed. Seth and his wife had searched, but hadn’t been able to locate it, so they contacted me. After seeing the size of the bush, I decided to start at the bottom and work up, figuring that the ring had probably bounced its way down to the ground, but if it had snagged on the way down, I could always start working my way back up. The ring was indeed on the ground, but was covered by holly leaves and branches that had fallen during the trimming. Not a difficult recovery, but because of the extra motivation to get it back to Seth and his wife, a very meaningful recovery. Another happy ending!

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Lost ring in yard while mowing…Found

  • from Johnson City (Tennessee, United States)
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Received a call earlier this week from a gentleman. He was mowing his yard on a hot day and while trying to clean grass from his hand the ring went flying. He heard it bounce off of something but not sure what direction it went. He purchasing a metal detector but soon decided it would be best to have a ring finder come out. After searching his front yard and his neighbors front yard, I crossed the street and found it in the grass on the other side of the road. So glad to be a help to this family and return his ring.

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Recovered Gold Chain and Gold Bar pendant!!!

  • from Destin (Florida, United States)
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Joel reached out to me devastated that he lost his Chain and Gold bar Pendant. I assured him i could find it and not to worry. After i asked all the right questions i headed out to meet him in Santa Rosa Beach, Fl. It was a large beach, but after almost an hour I thought it may have came off on the walk back since he had it in a towel and within 15 minutes I had it in the scoop!! Experience matters!

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Recovered a Diamond wedding ring on 30A!

  • from Destin (Florida, United States)
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Maddie.lost her wedding ring in the water and contacted me to help her recover it. Wasn’t the best of conditions, but I had it in the scoop after an hour! Another great recovery!

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Ring recovered in Pacific Grove!

  • from Carmel-by-the-Sea (California, United States)
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In all the excitement of Car-Week on the Monterey Peninsula, many families come out to see all the flashy sports cars and picnic on the beach. Junior must have executed quite the ace-serve playing beach volleyball with his kids, because his 24k white gold and diamond ring went flying into the pea-sand and vanished.  This all went down at the John Denver Memorial rock in Pacific Grove. He told me the story, we used some deductive logic, walked over to the likely zone, and in three minutes time, a reliable 19 kept ringing on my Nox, next to a big boulder. It took some persistent scoop work but out popped this beauty. It’s always fun when the caller gets to reach in and pull the wedding band out of the basket! Congrats Junior, you’re out of the doghouse!

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Two 24k Gold rings recovered

  • from Kent (England, United Kingdom)
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After receiving a call from Oliver yesterday evening , he asked for help in finding both his very sentimental 24k gold wedding ring , and his 24k signet ring , he explained he had lost both at the same time whilst playing water volleyball in his large out of the ground swimming pool ,during a large family gathering a couple of days earlier .

We arranged to meet up this morning , and he showed me the area of garden around his pool that he assumed the rings would be laying in , after an hours diligent search I had a hit that rang up 40 on my Manticore detector, a quick search with my pin-pointer revealed a bright yellow wedding band laying in the dry grass , this ring was laying in the complete opposite direction that Oliver had assumed the rings would have  flown off his finger in , a few swings further away from the pool and I had a hit of 60 on my detector , again as with the wedding ring , this signet ring was not visible to the naked eye as it was again laying under a few inches of very dry grass, which  my pin-pointer soon uncovered an equally bright yellow signet ring .

Oliver and his wife were extremely happy to be reunited with these precious family heirlooms , he said he hadn’t slept well these past couple of nights , as he was thinking about these two lost Gold rings , thanks to theringfinders.com Oliver can get a  better nights sleep with a huge weight off his mind .

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14K St Anthony Pendant Lost In The Atlantic Ocean Water, Found With A Metal Detector At Short Sands Beach, York, Maine

  • from Old Orchard Beach (Maine, United States)
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🌊 𝐋𝐎𝐒𝐓 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐀𝐓𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐂 𝐎𝐂𝐄𝐀𝐍: 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐓. 𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐍𝐘 𝐏𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐀𝐍𝐓 𝐏𝐔𝐙𝐙𝐋𝐄 🌊
I received a call from Joanne. Her son, Rob, had been enjoying the day at Short Sands Beach in York Beach, Maine , when disaster struck. After getting out of the ocean, Rob looked down and realized his 14k gold St. Anthony pendant was no longer on his necklace. It was lost somewhere in the rolling surf. 🛑
📈 𝐑𝐔𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐓𝐈𝐃𝐄 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐒 📈
Joanne asked if I could help. I immediately checked the tide charts and saw that the tide was currently coming in. When she told me the pendant was lost around 1:00 PM, I knew that meant it went missing at mid-tide. 🕒
I explained to Joanne that our absolute best chance for a recovery would be to arrive at Short Sands at 7:00 PM. By then, the tide would be heading back out, hitting that exact same mid-tide level, allowing me to follow the water out as it receded. She told me Rob would meet us there. 🤝
🔍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐍𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 𝐒𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐂𝐇 𝐁𝐄𝐆𝐈𝐍𝐒 🔍
When Cheryl and I arrived at 7:00 PM, Rob was waiting. He brought us right down to the beach and pointed out the exact area where he had been swimming when he first noticed the pendant was gone.
I mapped out my strategy and told Rob I would grid search parallel to the shore, expanding the search area by an extra 25 feet to both the north and the south to guarantee we covered every square inch of the zone. 📐 Duty called for Rob, and he had to leave the beach shortly after to head back to Boston for work the next morning. 🚙
Cheryl and I pushed on. I grid searched the area for more than two hours, finally calling it a night after 9:00 PM as darkness completely took over. 🌙 I had covered the entire designated area, but the ocean only gave up coins and the usual pull tabs and small pieces of aluminum. No gold. 🪙
💡 𝐀 𝐂𝐑𝐔𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋 𝐂𝐋𝐔𝐄 𝐎𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐃𝐑𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐇𝐎𝐌𝐄 💡
On the drive back home to Saco, Maine, I called Rob to give him the update. I told him the pendant simply wasn’t in that specific grid. I asked him if he had actually felt or seen the pendant slip off his neck, and he said no. Then I asked a crucial question:
“Had you been swimming earlier in the day?” 🤔
“Yes,” he replied. “Three or four other times.”
Right then, a lightbulb went off. It all made perfect sense! The St. Anthony pendant hadn’t come off during his 1:00 PM swim—it had likely slipped off during one of his earlier swims, and he just hadn’t noticed it was missing until later in the day. 💡
🌅 𝐒𝐋𝐄𝐄𝐏𝐋𝐄𝐒𝐒 𝐍𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 & 𝐀 𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐍 🌅
Knowing he had most likely lost the pendant earlier in the day, my mind immediately went back to the tide charts. I saw that the morning low tide was set for 10:39 AM. My new plan was to get back to Short Sands Beach by 7:00 AM, matching the receding water and following it all the way down until low tide three and a half hours later. I was highly optimistic that the earlier swimming area would finally be exposed. 🌊
After a restless night with maybe three hours of sleep—because my mind just wouldn’t stop racing over that missing gold—I pulled back up to Short Sands Beach. 🥱
I wasted no time getting to work, picking up the grid search from north to south, moving parallel to the shoreline once again. For the first hour and a half, the beach was stubborn. I was only digging up the usual suspects: coins and pull-tabs. By 8:30 AM, with two hours left until low tide, I knew I just had to keep grinding. 🦾
🎯 𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐆𝐄𝐓 𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍: 𝟑𝟓! 🎯
Just ten minutes later, everything changed. 💥
My detector screamed with a LOUD, LOW TONE, locking in at a solid 35 on my Target Identification Screen (TID)! 🎶 It sounded absolutely beautiful, and my adrenaline instantly spiked. 📈
I scooped up a heavy load of sand, flipped it onto the wet, hard-packed surface, and pulled out my pinpointer. As I located the target and began brushing away the top layer of sand, there it was—a bright, unmistakable glint of SHINY GOLD! ✨👑
I pulled it out, and holding it in my hand was Rob’s St. Anthony pendant! My theory had been spot on. After two separate days and four and a half total hours of searching, the puzzle was solved. The pendant was resting about 40 to 50 feet further out toward the water than where Rob originally thought he lost it, proving he had dropped it during one of those earlier swims. 🧭
📱 𝐀𝐍 𝐄𝐂𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐂 𝐅𝐀𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐘 📱
I immediately captured a video of the recovery and sent it to Rob and Joanne. Within minutes, both of their phones were ringing off the hook—they were absolutely ecstatic! 🥳🎉
Since Rob was already back at work in Boston and Joanne was also down in Massachusetts, Rob asked if I could hand the precious heirloom over to his girlfriend’s brother, Jay, who was still vacationing in York with his family. I told him, “Absolutely!” 🤝
Meeting up with Jay and handing over the pendant felt incredible. Job done. But the real icing on the cake came a short time later when I received a text from Rob that truly says it all: ❤️
💬 𝐀 𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐆𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐒𝐀𝐘𝐒 𝐈𝐓 𝐀𝐋𝐋 💬
“𝙏𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙠 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙨𝙤 𝙢𝙪𝙘𝙝 𝙖𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣. 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙜𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙣 𝙩𝙤 𝙢𝙚 𝙗𝙮 𝙢𝙮 𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙗𝙞𝙧𝙩𝙝𝙙𝙖𝙮 𝙬𝙚 𝙨𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙤𝙜𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧. 𝙄𝙩 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙖 𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙝𝙤𝙬 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙢𝙗𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙙𝙧𝙚𝙣 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙜𝙞𝙛𝙩𝙨. 𝙄 𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙡𝙮 𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙚𝙛𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙩, 𝙥𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙙. 𝙏𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙥𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙢𝙚𝙖𝙣𝙨 𝙖 𝙡𝙤𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙢𝙚, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙄 𝙝𝙤𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙡𝙮 𝙙𝙞𝙙𝙣’𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙠 𝙄’𝙙 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙨𝙚𝙚 𝙞𝙩 𝙖𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣. 𝘽𝙚𝙘𝙖𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙮𝙤𝙪, 𝙄 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙗𝙖𝙘𝙠 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙄 𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙜𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧. 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙥 𝙖 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙩𝙚 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙧 𝙢𝙚𝙖𝙣𝙨 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣 𝙄 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙥𝙪𝙩 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙤 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙨. 𝙏𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙠 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙖𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣, 𝙄 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙣𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙜𝙚𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨. 𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙣 𝙖𝙢𝙖𝙯𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙢𝙖𝙣. 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙙𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙬𝙨 𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙜𝙤𝙤𝙙 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙄 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙣𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙜𝙚𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙢𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩.” 🥹😭
❤️ 𝐖𝐇𝐘 𝐖𝐄 𝐃𝐎 𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐖𝐄 𝐃𝐎 ❤️
Well, if a message like that doesn’t warm your heart, absolutely nothing will. It is exactly for reasons like this that we do what we do. The jewelry we recover holds deep family bonds and irreplaceable memories that a retail store can never replicate. These items represent family history. 📜✨
I truly have the best job in the world, and I love my job! 🌍🥇
𝐈𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐚 𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐤𝐞𝐲𝐬, 𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐦, 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐜, 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐠 𝐮𝐩 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐚, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐧 𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚! 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐮𝐬 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐚𝐭 𝟐𝟎𝟕-𝟒𝟐𝟑-𝟑𝟎𝟐𝟕 📞
Remember: “𝐈𝐟 𝐢𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮, 𝐢𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐮𝐬.” 🌊✨
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Found In The Dark Diamond Eternity Ring Returned Dennis, MA

  • from Cape Cod (Massachusetts, United States)
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August 16, 2025

I received a text about a lost Eternity ring. Great, another chance to practice my hobby. Oh no, the ring had been lost on Mayflower Beach one of Cape Cod’s many bay side beaches. The reason for the “Oh no” is that the wet sand of the beach at low tide goes on for miles and pin-pointing a location is very difficult to say the least. A beach photo with a marking is of great help, but not always very accurate. And that was going to be the case in this search. A search at low tide is best on the bay side as I can drag my scoop leaving a mark as to the area covered, unlike when the tide is high.

All that being said, I had time for dinner and would fight the crowd trying to get onto the beach along with all the sunset seakers trying to get a good view of theevening’s sunset. That was the easy part. I geared up, and headed for the search area. The word about the lost ring had spread and a very helpful woman confronted me and asked if I was there to find the lost ring. I answered with a “yes” and was pointed to the woman who had lost the ring, Lauren. The photo I had was marked as the first sand bar and Lauren was on the second. I was not surprised. By the time I reached the area Scott, met me and pointed out the “pools” the children and been playing in and an area north just beyond a group playing basket ball, yes – basket ball on the wet sand of Cape Cod Bay at dusk. The area east and west was also pointed out. The search was on.

The area, less the basketball “court”, was covered with only one bottle cap being found. Not a surprise, the ball players were taking care of their trash. “Bravo” to them! The sun had set, the hoop was lost in the darkness and the game was called. Now it was my turn on the court, with high hopes the ring would be my next target. No such luck…back to talk with Lauren and Scott.

Well if it was not in this court, the ring might have fallen out of Lauren’s pocket while playing ball, an area as big as the one I had already covered. The last light had gone and soon Lauren and Scott were on their way home. Me, heck no, I had a ring to find. Lauren’s player position kept her closest to the line of pools. It was there I had my first signal in this area. Yes, it was the ring. I removed my gear, got my phone out and tested “COME BACK” but I did not get a reply before I reached the dry sand and the parking lot. I called the number on the phone and it went to voice mail. OK, I can return the ring tomorrow, and my wife would have a good look at the beautiful ring.

Almost ready to leave and a phone call and a question…Where are you? I put on my 4-way flashers and then a heavy panting Scott was at the car, he had run from home. About a minute later Lauren showed up with I think a tear in her eye and a big hug. Things could not be better until a truck full of friend and relatives showed up to join in on the joyous return.

Hey, this is why I enjoy my hobby so much. You could never get the feelings I do without experiencing the happening as I do. Offers from myself and the truck driver to give Lauren and Scott a ride back home were declined, they wanted a peaceful stroll back to reflect on the day’s experience and a good night’s sleep.

PS: Many thanks to Kelly for starting my experience with this great and wonderful group of family and friends. Rick

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