Wonderful story, Eduardo.  I lost my wedding ring at a beach along the Texas
coast (not, on my honeymoon but many years later).  When can you get to
Texas?
 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jose Eduardo de Alencar Moreira [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 1999 10:27 AM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      achives thanks and a curious story
>
> Many many thanks to all those who sent me messages with the Conus Wars
> material. I got all the messages I wanted.
>
> To do not leave this message without something shell related, here comes a
> 10% shell related story, but curious and unbelievable.
>
> In my vacations, a month ago, I spent part of it in Fernando de Noronha
> Island, off the Brazilian Northeastern coast. It is a really beautiful
> place
> to dive but not as good to shelling since 70% of the island is a Marine
> National Park. Shell collecting is only allowed outside the MNP, where you
> can find, among others, Nerita ascencionis chlorostoma (endemic) and big
> Conus regius.
>
> My curious story started while snorkeling in a beach, inside the MNP,
> known
> as Sancho, when I found a wedding ring shining in a rock crevice. I put it
> in my finger (close to it my wedding ring almost disapeared) and headed to
> the beach. I showed  it to my wife and in the ring we found "Roseane
> 24/04/99". Since it was found on May 1st, we though it was lost by someone
> in a honeymoon.
>
> We left that beach, walked on a trail up the hill, stayed half an hour in
> another beach. Another trail, another hill, another beach ... up we
> reached
> a beach about two hours after my finding.
>
> There we stopped to drink some water and we found two couples. One couple
> left the area and the other started to kiss. Then I realized that the guy
> didn't have a wedding ring and the lady had hers. I asked her name and she
> said it, followed with a "Why are you asking?"
>
> I told her: "It is a real pity. If your name was Roseane, I would have
> found
> your husband's wedding ring".
>
> They both said together, pointing to the other lady that was leaving: "But
> her name is Roseane and her husband lost a wedding ring yesterday in
> Sancho
> Beach".
>
> We started to call them back. I asked the date of their marriage:
> 24/04/99.
> Then I said that I had something that belonged to them and I put the ring
> in
> his finger.
>
> You can't imagine their emotion. You can't imagine our emotion. The other
> couple also married on 24/04/99 and he also lost his ring during the
> honeymoon trip.
>
> I'm not a mathematician, but the probability of something like this
> happens
> is VERY VERY VERY LOW.
>
> All started with a snorkeling to see some live shells.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Eduardo
> Brasilia, Brazil