Topical Salve

My family was at the beach this past weekend. In the wash, buried in the sand amongst the sand fleas and bivalves, my wife found a digital camera. Nifty thing, these newer cameras. They’re water resistant, usually to 3 meters or so. And they can take some abuse. Say being buried in the sand in saltwater.

This particular camera remained water tight from the point it was lost to the time it was found. After rinsing the sand out of its crevices (a very strange sensation, deliberately putting electronics under running water), and drying it off, I managed to download the pictures off the memory card.

I know this has been done before with rather dramatic, and most likely unrepeatable, results, but I’d be very interested in seeing if the owner of this camera can be located via the power of the Internet. I believe the person in the photo at the bottom of this post is the owner of the camera (She is the only one in the photos on the memory card that was doing self portraits). If you are the owner of the camera, and you’re reading this post, contact me via email (see the about page. Your email just has to get past Google’s spam filters), and convince me you’re the owner. I’ll mail the camera and all your pictures back to you.

The camera was found on a beach in San Diego, California. I’ve taken the bother to remove the EXIF data from the photo to discourage the more unscrupulous out there from trying to score a free camera.

Okay, Internet. Go!