What have you found?

So that's a lost and found?
I've often wondered why they called it 'lost and found' rather than 'lost OR found". Now I understand.

when i was a kid i was diving through the shorey in a heap of weed. surfaced on the 1st occasion with a $1 note, then next dive was a pair of sunnies.

I found a ski-rope and bridle attachement for a ski boat - was in perfect condition. Must have got lost in the river and floated out to sea.

A few years ago, at a well known Townsville kiting beach I noticed a beige coloured rectangle (about the size of a cigarette packet) floating in the small waves on the shoreline. Curious about it I picked it up. The rectangle was the base for a freakin huge butt plug!
Great big tapered cone shaped thing on a base, all made of some sort of silicone/rubber. I tossed it back in the briney and was thankful for the washing action of the waves. I still scrubbed my hands pretty well as soon as I got home....

Strange but true....

Back in the day when Mindarie dive was actually in Mindarie we would often follow out and I've behind the charter boat. Swim were they had been previously. We would get all sorts of thing from lights, catch bags, loops but the best was once my mates looked over and i had a brand new spear gun Worst part was i was always ainty spearing (mostly as i didn't want to be in the water with a dead fish) and my mates pissed themselves laughing Until they discovered the safety thing was off..

When I was 15 I found a postie bike CT110 in storm drains near what was the old IKEA in Springwood on the way home from school. Was stoked pushed it 7km's home(Kingston), replaced the magneto and rode it around for a year till I sold it for $500. Was abit of a dunger but meh... Made a great deposit for my yz80..

Was one of my favorite bikes as back then you could fill the tank for $1.20 and would run all day (20cents around 2hrs flat out) . Could not afford oil so I acquired oil from the kitchen cupboard and still ran like a gem.

Another dive story.

Mate of mine just bought a brand new aluminum spear gun cost him close to $200 so we headed to narrow neck with my hand spear, swam out and couldn't see my mate.
So I headed in the direction I thought he was and while swimming I saw that he had dropped his new gun, so I dove down to grab it. Surfaced and found my mate who was still holding his gun.
Turns out I had just found a newer bigger model that was around $300.

Went from me being jealous to him pretty quick that day.

Still didn't catch anything

Just thought of a couple more,

Years ago snorkelling at Lancelin Island I thought I had found something interesting looking in only a metre or so of water right near the shore.
When I got it to the surface I realised by the shape and weight it was a live shell (bomb) of some kind.
I placed it carefully down on some seaweed on the beach and reported it to the police, the area was barricaded off and the defence force flew up a couple of bomb squad guys in a chopper who decided it was stable enough that the didn't detonate it but retrieved it to try to work out where and when it had came from.

Snorkelling again, this time in Parakeet Bay at Rotto, when I thought I could see an old boat propeller on the bottom, I dived down to retrieve it but it turned out to be a vertabrae from a whale.
I donated it to the museum on the island but it turns out they are worth quite a bit, I wonder if it is still there?

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^ ha ha yeah I wondered about that at the time, the mask was rather slimey though and had obviously been in the water quite a while so if there was a diver down there I don't think he would be very healthy.

Lost my boat and anchor briefly while snorkeling. Looked up to see how far away I was to see it drifting off a lot further away than I thought. While a swam after it looking down with my goggles just happened to swim straight over an anchor that looked suspiciously similar to the one that should have been holding my boat in place. Was a long swim dragging that anchor back, lucky it wasn't very windy. So a case of lost and found.

When I was ten my auntie dropped me and my cousins off at adventure world and I had a snorkle and goggles with me so I went looking for change in the pool.

Didnt find much change but found an old gold chain. It looked like a cheapie so I put it in my bag and didnt think of it again until mum went through my bag a few weeks later and found it. At the time she was working at a jewlers shop.
The chain was real gold and was worth at the time $700 mum cleaned it up and put a new clasp on it and is still wearing it today