Posted on 03/23/2020 7:34:25 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Liam McNamara, a member of the Burren Shores Beachcombing & More Facebook group, said he found the hat on a beach in Fanore, County Clare, and sought help from social media in tracking down the original owner of the head wear.
The hat's custom paint job, in the purple and gold colors of Louisiana State University, and an intact sticker bearing the name of the International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 25, helped McNamara get into contact with Matthew Bonnette.
McNamara said he is mailing the hat back to Bonnette in Louisiana.
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Amazing if true.
No barnacles, algae, nothing? More than likely BS.
Doesn’t say if they cleaned it or not.
Regards,
Are you suggesting hard hats migrate?
Needs an autograph from Ed Orgeron!
I think Ed O was an LSU defensive coach in 2015. He would get a kick out of this!
Got into Gulf Stream.
Gulf stream current.
It also makes Iceland winters more mild than some of Europe in the same latitude.
In SE Florida we pick up “lucky beans” and “sea hearts” on the beach, which are actually nuts from trees in central America forests. They fall to the ground and rains wash them into streams, tributaries, rivers and into the ocean, where they circle the Gulf of Mexico and ride the Gulf stream eventually wash upon our beaches. Pretty cool to think how far they traveled before you pick one up from the sand.
Not at all they could be carried.
perhaps if two swallows carried it on a string?
European swallows or African swallows?
Go Tigers!
Ed Orgeron!
A master Cajun Mariner who showed the Brits how is done in the North Sea.
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