This ring find began on Thursday, 10 October when I got a text from Andrea who was on vacation from Clive, Iowa and staying with her husband at the Hale Koa. They were flying out the next day, right at the low tide, when I intended to hunt as they had been in the water and weren’t actually sure when the ring came off. It was going to be a mail back ring scenario. When I arrived at low tide I searched the dry sand area where they had been relaxing on beach chairs. No luck. Andrea mentioned they had only gone out to about waist deep water and had been thrown around by the waves and rolled around a bit. I started on the upper slope going down into the water out to at least chest deep to be sure I covered the area well. I just hunted this area the weekend before so it was sterile. Then on the 4th leg of the grid going up the wet sand slope I got a nice loud tone and in one scoop there was Andrea’s gorgeous ring in the scoop. A rather large 1.5 carat diamond was my guess. I immediately texted her the great news but the flight had already departed. I got a text at 1:10 AM asking, Any luck? then, « No way! Woah! Amazing! Ya! When it’s morning give me a call. » I mailed the ring back and you can see in the pic above Andrea and her husband have smiles of joy back in Iowa! Much Aloha to Andrea & her husband!
I’m so glad I reached out to Joe.! He was expeditious in his search and mailing the ring to me. I wasn’t even going to reach out as I thought this was a needle in a haystack situation. I couldn’t believe when I got off the flight that Joe had found it. I was shocked an extremely grateful! I am so glad I connected with Joe! Thank you Joe! You are the best!