February 28th, 2009 by Brad Lovell

Everyone likes a story with a happy ending, so I thought I should share this story, even though I was unable to help out this particular occasion. This is a story of Jono, who lost his wedding ring on his honeymoon in waist deep water at Lennox Head. Unfortunately, Lennox Head is a 10 hour drive from here, so obviously it was out of my area. Unable to find anyone with a metal detecting service in Lennox Head, Jono decided to hire a metal detector and search for himself. Below is a copy of his email..

Hi Brad, We are on the last night of our honeymoon and I realise I didn’t get back to you about the missing ring.  I took the metal detector down to the water but had a lot of trouble getting a stable reading.  I think the water and depth changes on the sea floor created problems.  It was difficult to tell what was a real signal and as I presumed the ring was deep I expected it may not give off a strong signal.  I was out there with my wife digging around and the tide had started coming back in, lapping above our knees which made it very difficult to keep searching.  Eventually I thought that it had got to the point where  I would have to give it away and as I turned for one last sweep I saw a glint of what looked to be gold on the edge of the reef.  I reached into the water and felt the shape, it was a ring, I pulled it out of the water and immediately new it was THE ring.  My wife and I couldn’t believe it, we had found it after four days of searching.  We really were overjoyed and relieved.

Nice work on finding your wedding ring on your honeymoon Jono! I can only imagine how relieved you and your new wife are