25 July 2026.
About 6:30 PM, as I was sitting contently on my back deck, basking in lazy late afternoon sunshine with a cold drink in hand, the phone rang for the third time today. Chelsea was calling from Bowerman’s Beach (where I always leave a Ring Finders card) in hopes that I could come and recover her lost gold band. Having been in the water for much of the day, and it now being high tide, I naturally asked when and how deep in the water the ring was lost. To my relief Chelsea assured me that the ring was in dry sand, lost where they had been relaxing ashore near the beach house.
The beach is only a few minutes away from my home, so I arrived not long after Chelsea’s call. The sand had been smoothed out a bit over the general area where she had been sitting, which made it easier to swing my detector. It took only a couple of swaths and a couple of minutes to recover her ring. The band was fine and slender, half of a pair of twins. It gave a lighter signal than the usual chunkier versions, but the signal was plenty strong enough to leave no doubt that it was a good, ring-like target. Following some happy conversation and thanks from Chelsea and the beach manager, I headed home, detector secured, for the fourth time since sunrise.
And that, my friends, concluded a very productive and gratifying day!
The completed pair of Chelsea’s gold rings.
Chelsea’s rings, settled where they belong.
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