This weekend was awesome!
I started it by meeting my two new friends, Lawson and Jordyn, at the crack of dawn in Fort Morgan. The day before, they had been throwing a football in the Gulf when Jordyn suddenly felt her ring slip off her finger. It was actually three rings—her engagement ring with the two wedding bands soldered to it. When she called, I knew I needed to make the long drive over the next morning.
It was a beautiful morning, and something big was chasing huge schools of mullet in the deeper, darker water. It was a little spooky… but also pretty exciting.
After about an hour and a half of searching, I started to realize the rings weren’t where we thought they should be. Jordyn is pretty athletic, so I figured she may have chased the football into deeper water. The tide was also over a foot higher than it had been the day before, so I worked my way out until the water was up to my ribs, keeping one eye on the detector and the other on the dark shapes moving beneath the mullet schools.
Thankfully, I didn’t have to go much farther before I heard an unmistakable, booming gold tone. (That’s what three gold rings together will do! 😃)
When I looked into my scoop and saw the rings, I knew I was about to make two people very happy.
The teary-eyed hug from Jordyn and the sincere handshake from Lawson said it all. Those special rings represent so many memories, and I was grateful to help put them back where they belong.
Thanks for trusting me, y’all! I’m so glad I could help.
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