Lost...but found again

Kelly Sheehan ruled out ever seeing her engagement ring again.

After dropping the ring in waist deep water at Cowes on Easter Monday, she knew it would be nothing short of a miracle for someone to find it washed up on the sandy shore.

That was until more than 120 shares of her social media post caught the attention of a Warragul man with a metal detector.

Desperate, and in the hope another holiday maker or local may find her engagement ring, Kelly posted a “lost” notice on the Phillip Island and surrounds buy swap and sell Facebook page.

Kelly admits she was starting to design a new engagement ring in her mind when people responding to her post reassured her it would be found.

She said if it wasn’t for the kindness and hope of people in the Phillip Island Facebook group, she probably wouldn’t have pursued it.

Kelly was swimming and feeling cold, she could feel her wedding and engagement rings become loose on her finger.

As she grabbed at her rings to check them, she knocked them off her finger and they fell into the water.  A quick instinctive grab caught her wedding ring but her engagement ring disappeared.

For the next 45 minutes Kelly and her family walked gently in the area, being careful not to disturb the sand but desperately searching for her lost ring.

Kelly searched online to hire metal detectors and then out of desperation posted her loss on social media.

The post caught the attention of a mutual friend in Warragul who had a metal detector.