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We took a mini-vacation with our friends G. & D. This time to the mountains of Wintergreen VA. It was kind of a long drive (3+ hours), but a beautiful place. Again, since I didn’t expect to SCUBA dive, I took my amphibious AT Pro instead of any one of my underwater detectors. I got to detect a couple of local lakes and found the usual trash and clad coins. Incredibly, the detector is so sensitive, I even found the back of an earring! In retrospect, I should have brought my SCUBA gear. While I was on a beach, a woman asked me to look for her GoPro camera. She had the spot, but it was too murky at about ten feet to find while snorkeling. The day before we left, I tried detecting a couple of hours on a ski slope. It was August, and pretty steep terrain. I felt a little like an anthropologist as I found clusters of items at certain areas. For instance, near the lift, there were many beer bottle caps and broken coat snaps. I can see in my mind the skiers settling down & enjoying a beer on the ride up. At the bottom of the actual slope, there were a few coins and broken pieces of ski boots. I’d love to go back in the spring, but I think I would need to be part billy goat because it was so steep. The photo is what I found at the lift and the slope. Afterwards, we had a fantastic dinner with G&D at Devils Backbone Basecamp Brewpub.

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Stuff from the ski slope.

Katherine is the first cousin of my son’s best friend from high school and I am friends with her grandfather.  They had heard about Ringfinders and knew I was involved, but with the number of years gone by from when the ring was lost they assumed it was futile to look for it.

O.D., the grandfather, finally mentioned the lost ring to me and I immediately said, « Let’s go and get it. »  Katherine had been playing in waist deep water at the campground beach four years ago when she noticed her white-gold ring with three stones was missing.  Gretchen, Katherine’s mother, and Katherine were working at the campground this week and we made arrangements to meet there for the hunt.

Gregg Larabel, my fellow Ringfinder, and I arrived at about noon and in about ten minutes I had the ring in my scoop.  Katherine knew exactly where she was when the ring was lost, and this made for a fast recovery.

Gretchen and Katherine were watching us from the beach and we called them over and presented the ring to Katherine by having her take it off my pinky finger.  They were delighted to have the ring back, and Mom even shed a tear or two.

It is always fun to return a ring, but especially rewarding when you are friends with the family.

July 11, 2017, gold wedding band lost in the surf. About 2 hour later I returned the ring to the happy couple.

Gold and diamond ring found and returned to Antonio at the Caribe Hilton, Puerto Rico. July 2, 2017

Made someone very happy! I got a call for two lost rings on Sunday. While vacationing in Puerto Rico, Daisy had been in the surf when a wave snatched the rings right off her finger. Three days later a heartbroken Daisy stumbled across the Ringfinders page and found me. After gathering some information form Daisy I made my way to the beach with an approximate location where the rings were lost. After fighting the heavy surf the engagement ring was recovered. I returned the ring back to Daisy Rosario who was very very happy and grateful to have this ring back. Due to the heavy surf this has been by far my most challenging recovery.