A Father's Day Ring Recovery

[Skate]

I lost my dad a couple of years ago and this is my second Father's day without having the chance to say I love him so I've been in a funk as today approached. The other part of my funk is my own kids are 1200 and 3000 miles away and I get to see them next to never due to one's career in the Air Force and the other who flies for Delta. So with that in mind I got a chance today to get up off my pity party butt and get out there and do something nice for someone. I got a text late last night (Saturday) from a young lady who had lost her diamond engagement ring somewhere on the beach at Rincon Beach Park. She told me that she has only had it for 3 weeks and after waiting 9 years for her boyfriend to finally ask her she goes and loses it. We needed to hit low tide so I agreed to meet her at 7am. 

Rincon beach is popular for surfers due to it's sweet break around the point where if you catch it right you can get an awesome ride.

 

The tide pools though are just below the surface so it requires skill to just get out to the break! Ashley and her friends were just in front of the houses when a sneaker wave came in and as fate would have it she had just taken her ring off to put sunscreen on and so she gathered up her towel and pulled everything up and away. Logic would lead you, me and her to think the ring fell out right there and I could swoop in and save the day in less than a minute. If there is one thing I have learned in finding folks rings is that the logical place is usually not where the ring is at and today that was the case. I gridded a basketball size court area and came up empty. There was a secondary location 100 yards away that she and her friends retreated to with all their belongings and so I began to search a path from point A to point B. Ashley was beginning to have doubts and I reassured her the ring wasn't lost, it was here on the beach and that we just had to find it. 

I began to envision the scenario in which it was dropped. She had gathered up her towel and the ring in it, dragging an ice chest to the new location in the dry sand around the corner. I finally got the sweet pitch tone on my D2 and a 42 and I figured this had to be it and then bingo, this beauty was in my scoop.

Needless to say I quit feeling the funk and realized that Father's Day was/is the perfect day to do something nice for someone else which is what a Dad does. It was a great reminder that we are to be selfless and put others first. Ashley was crying and man oh man, what a great moment it was. I tried to film it with my new camera but having my hat on made the sky look great but nothing else LOL. I retired last week so I have plenty of time to figure that camera out.

Happy Father's Day to everyone and do what you do best! Just being a dad who is there!

Dave

[Gold Seeker]

That's awesome, great job!

[Joe Beechnut OBN]

Wow! Nice work and a Beautiful smile! 

[Joe D.]

   Great story, and thankfully a happy ending! I'm guessing she will now be leaving the ring at home, or at least, secure it before doing anything else!👍👍

[jim tn]

Good on you, smiling young lady and lost funk. Pretty good fathers day I think! HH Jim Tn

[Skate]

It was definitely a funk buster. She helped me as much as I helped her. 

[Valens Legacy]

So glad that you were able to save her day and make yours a little better at the same time.

Good luck on your next hunt and find something you can keep for yourself.

[ColonelDan]

Absolutely wonderful!

[schoolofhardNox]

Something she will never forget! Great story.

 

[strick]

Nice work skate...better in her hands then some greedy pirate 😁

strick