Stand still. A ring that comes off in the sand lies within a step of where it went. The surf does not carry it anywhere; it is heavy and it stays.
La Pared is a surf beach on the wild side of the island: big waves, hard wind, and a bay with rock at both ends. The rock is bad for swimming and very good for finding your way back to a spot.
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Unlike the hotel beaches on the other coast, La Pared has edges. Dark rock closes the bay at both ends and runs out into the water, and the path down from the car park is one place, not twenty. Say how far you were from the rocks on either side and from the path, and whether you were on the main beach or round at Playa del Viejo Rey to the north. That is enough for somebody to stand where you stood.
This is a surf beach, and most of the rings lost here never see the water. They come off in the car park or at the top of the path, when cold fingers pull at a wetsuit, or in the sand where the boards were lying. If you noticed it after the session, think about where you got changed and where your things were, not about the line-up. A ring that went into dry sand by the boards is a small search. A ring lost in the surf at La Pared is a hard one, and an honest searcher will tell you so.
At low water the bay opens into a wide, firm flat that is easy to walk and easy to search. At high water the sea comes up close to the foot of the slope. A ring lost in the wet sand is best searched at the next low tide, and the time you lost it tells a searcher which strip of that flat to walk. Say the time, and say whether the water was coming in or going out if you know.
The currents at La Pared are strong, and there is not always a lifeguard. Nobody should wade out looking for a ring here. If it went into the water, the sand at the edge at low tide is the place to look, with a detector, by somebody who knows the beach.
The beach is a bathing and surf beach, and looking for your own ring on it is not what the Canary heritage law regulates, though no Canary law says that in so many words. The ground behind the beach and the slopes are another matter, and whoever comes to search checks where the line runs before they switch on. That is their job, not yours. More on the islands: Is metal detecting legal in Spain?
Under Spanish law whoever finds a ring has to give it back or hand it in to the town (Article 615 of the Civil Code). La Pared belongs to Pájara. Ask at the surf school and the bar by the beach first, they see everything that gets picked up, and then at the Policía Local of Pájara.
You do not need to be on the island. The beach, the rocks you were near, the day and the time are enough to start with, and the searchers who work this coast know La Pared.
Retrievly does not search. It connects the person who lost something with people nearby who own a detector and will go and look.
The first searches on Retrievly happened on Fuerteventura, one of them at La Pared. There may still be nobody signed up near the beach on the day you need them; if not, we go and look for someone and send them your request.
Only a rough circle is shown in public. The exact spot goes to the one person you choose.
Posting is free and no money goes through Retrievly. A thank-you, if you want to give one, is between you and whoever goes out.
Post the same day and draw the circle tight: those two decide it more than anything else. Retrievly vets nobody, so meet in daylight, somewhere public.
Post a requestNo account needed, not even to post. We ask for your email at the very end, nothing else.
Kenny built Retrievly. He has snorkelled the Danube for years and keeps bringing up things that belong to other people: wallets with the ID still in them, phones, keys. That is where Retrievly came from.
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