How often do you lose something memorable and get it back? Not often.
A woman who lost her digital camera while on a trip was found by a local fisherman and returned to her 13 years later.
In 2010, Coral Amayi went to her best friend’s wedding and lost her camera after, while tubing on the Animus River in Colorado.
“I had gotten tossed from my tube at Smelter Rapid,” Amayi told FOX 31 Denver.
“And I came back up, got my tube, and my camera was missing,” she told the station.
Amayi took a lot of pictures on her trip but had not uploaded all of them to her computer, leaving her “heartbroken,” according to FOX 31.
“I remember getting back to my boyfriend’s house and uncontrollably crying and upset,” she said.
Naturally, Amayi thought she would never see her camera again.
But all of that changed when a fisherman found the camera in shallow water.
“I was walking along and saw it sticking out of the sand,” the angler, Spencer Greiner, told FOX 31.
“It was in rough shape, so I really didn’t have any hopes of getting anything off of it, I was just planning to throw it away, and then curiosity got the best of me, and I had to see what was on it,” he said.
Greiner used a screwdriver to open the door to access the camera’s memory card and did not think there was any chance it would even work due to its poor state.
“But I plugged it into the computer, and it read immediately and I was like, ‘Oh cool, let’s see what sort of treasures we’re going to find on this memory card.'”
While going through the photos, Greiner found images of a tubing trip, a bachelorette party, and a wedding, FOX 31 reported.
Greiner was determined to get the camera back to its owner and posted some of the images in a local Durango Facebook group.
He asked: “Did you get married on June 12th, 2010 in the Durango area? Did you have an ugly brown stretch station wagon at your bachelorette party? Do you recognize any of these people? If so please contact me.“
Less than an hour later, he got a few responses from people who knew the owner and eventually it was returned to her.
Within an hour, Greiner had people coming forward after recognizing themselves in several of the images, FOX 31 reported.
“It was less than an hour after I made the post and the groom from the wedding was like, ‘That’s me and my wife!’” Greiner told the station.
“So, I was shocked that it happened so quickly,” Greiner said.
FOX 31 reported that the bride and groom from the wedding who recognized the photos, reached out to Amayi with the good news that her camera had been found.
“I got up and was like dancing in the bathroom, and I was like, ‘Who am I going to tell?! I need to tell this to somebody like right now,'” Amayi shared.
From where the camera was lost to where it was found downstream, Greiner believes the camera traveled 1.2 miles down the Colorado river, FOX 31 shared.
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Source: NY Post