The Pandora bracelet found on Garden City Beach is headed back to its owner.
Cary Nelson, a retired firefighter from Virginia, found the bracelet with his medal detector. “I come out here usually three or four times a week, several hours at a time,” Nelson said.
Nelson says he usually finds coins or trash, but during a morning sweep on July 17, he found something much more expensive near the water next to The Pier at Garden City.
“It wasn’t connected at first and I could only see a little bit of it in the sand,” he said.
It was a Pandora bracelet with about 20 charms on it.
“Once I pulled it out, I was like, this is definitely something different and something that somebody really misses,” said Nelson.
Nelson sent a picture to his wife Dawn, who asked on Facebook for help finding the bracelet’s owner. The bracelet has a 30-year anniversary pendant, a grandma heart with an engraved message on the back, and a West Virginia University Mountaineers charm.
On July 26, Dawn posted an update to her Facebook page, saying the owner of the bracelet has been found and the bracelet will be sent back on Friday.
Dawn also says in another post the owner of the bracelet is from West Virginia, and now lives in Michigan. She says the owner “described every charm and the inscription. She is ecstatic, she thought she would never see it again.”
