CORNWALL, England, Dec. 23 (UPI) — A woman discovered a buoy washed up on a UK beach only to discover that it had travelled all the way from Florida.
Jessica Collins, 34, posted about her findings on Facebook along with photos of the buoy, which traveled 4,000 miles from Manatee County, Fla. to England’s Poldhu beach.
“Not quite as exciting as a space shuttle but found this buoy on Poldhu, Cornwall which has come all the way from Manatee County, Florida,” she wrote.
Upon finding the buoy, Collins immediately thought of Florida and reached out to Manatee County via email to find out more about the buoy’s origins.
“I read the word Manatee and I thought well, Manatee is definitely from Florida,” Collins told Bay News 9.
Manatee County staff responded to Collins’ email and informed her that the type of buoy she found had only been used between 2005 and 2008.
“It is quite likely that they buoy has been at sea for the last 7-10 years before it finally washed up on your shore,” they wrote in the email.
Collins had visited Florida once when she was 11 but admitted that her journey was likely much shorter than that of the buoy.
“It took eight hours to fly, not eight years of riding on the Gulf stream,” she told The Bradenton Herald.
This is not the first time a Manatee County buoy has turned up somewhere else after breaking loose, but it’s certainly the farthest.
“We had a buoy go to Texas that I got a call about,” Manatee County environmental program manager said.
Collins hopes to keep the buoy, but due to its size she will have to wait until the National Trust is able to remove it from the beach.
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