Sunday, November 3, 2013

Fiji: Day 101 - Lost Winning Lottery Ticket

Monday, November 4, 2013

I posted yesterday's find on reddit this morning to see if anyone could identify it.

Supposedly there is a high probability that this was the highly sought after gold-of-the-sea, ambergris. It is produced by sperm whales to help their digestion and is the reason they are now nearly extinct. Ambergris is highly valuable for use in perfumes and sells for about 2/3 the price of gold. This guy sold his for $400,000 and the one I found looks identical but was more than double its size.
It is odd because we did hear a HUGE splash in the water the night before that we thought was a whale. And if the thing I found was an organ, then wouldn't we also find a massive dead whale in the area?

Unfortunately, Jan saw it float away last night with the outgoing tide. We are going to search for it again today, but it is very likely lost along with a potential fortune....

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