So great to hear such a cool happy ending! Good job Daisyd and family! :)

What a happy story daisyd! I had a camera fall overboard from my boat one time and besides loving the camera I lost all my pictures. And our camera was stolen while on our honeymoon so another sad loss. Thanks for sharing your great news!

Everyone should do exactly what you did because it's the right thing to do. Too bad people don't always do right.

How great!! Like every good Detective, you tracked them down :)
I love Happy Endings ((F))

:) Good work!

Daisy, thanks for making my day. It's nice to hear how much you cared about someone else's precious pictures. Excellent job!

What an amazing ending! Kudos to you for your efforts!

Not everybody would have gone to so much trouble to find the owner. You deserve to be congratulated on your kindness and honesty.

Good for you going to that trouble to locate the owners! And what a stroke of luck, too! Great story!

Long ago, when I was in college I had a 35 mm Canon that I had bought with all of my savings from a summer's work. I had taken dark room classes. I loved the camera.

I took it on my first trip abroad and made the mistake of leaving it in a restaurant in Florence IT. I realized this after a couple of hours and returned to the restaurant, hoping against hope that it would still be there. It was. The people in the restaurant had found it and put it in safe-keeping, hoping I would return. I will never forget how grateful I was. That event left a good taste in my mouth to this day.

Thanks for all your kind words everyone! Sad to hear others' stories that didn't turn out so well, but also happy that at least one other person had their camera returned. My husband is a spotter for CBS Sports so I know it was his good eyes that spotted it on the ground.
Our family has a nice digital camera and I am the picture freak - I take way too many and then review them every night and make deletions. I really LOVE our camera, and would be devastated to lose it, especially the pics inside. This helps us all to be mindful in the future and keep precious things close.
Since this is a travel site... our next trips are to New Mexico in Dec, to Hawaii in March 07, a Mediterranian Cruise in Oct 07, and to China for the Olympics in Aug of 08. I will take our camera and watch it like a hawk on every one of these trips! Hopefully we'll chat again on a different message. Thanks again everyone... light and blessings to you all.

daisyd: I think there's a movie in this! What a lovely story! Now, b/c you are such a great detective, can you help me w/ this one? About 5 years ago we rec'd a Christmas present in the mail that was intended for somebody else. It was a beautiful "Coffee Table" book on Yosemite. The original packaging had been torn away. No address on the Christmas wrapping. The postal workers simply stuck it inside another package that had our address on it! I still have the book but have no clue how to get it to its rightful owners. I did place an ad in the local paper but no one responded. Any ideas?

wow, After 5 years, I think the trail is cold. Is there a show like "America's Most Wanted" for lost or stolen items? Lol.

So far I haven't lost a camera, but I did lose 6 rolls of exposed film (back in the non digital days) that I put into a mailer and sent from the north shore of Kauai. It included photos of our hike of the NaPali coast and a backpack trip to the bottom of Haleakala crater to name a few. Anyway, they must have come out of the mailer and I never got them back. The lesson I learned was to put an address label on each film canester (sp?) in case someone like mr & mrs daisyd found them and wanted to return them. This won't help with digital, but it may with non digital video cameras.