Earlier this year Norfolk Island resident Susan Prior was disheartened to see yet another sea creature with one of those plastic rings from a milk or juice bottle around the neck of a mullet. "These fish snuffle through the sand looking for food making it so easy for a ring or
hair tie to flip over their noses and get stuck," she explained. But on closer inspection she realised there was something odd about the ring. "This one looked a shiny metallic gold, with a lot less algal growth compared to the plastic ones. I recalled that someone had posted on our local community social media pages about a large man's wedding ring that had gone missing in the bay earlier this year, so I decided to see if I could find the possible owner. It didn't take long for my suspicion to be confirmed; we now have a poor mullet weighed down with someone's (expensive) gold wedding ring." In a similar vein, in 2017, a Canadian woman lost her wedding ring while pulling weeds. Impressively, it was retrieved 13 years later wrapped around a carrot that had been dug up for supper.
