While tubing down Colorado’s Animas River in July 2010, Coral Amayi flipped off her tube at Smelter Rapids. After climbing back on her tube, she realized the lanyard that had held her camera was broken. Amayi, now 35, had a good cry, figuring the camera and the photos on it were lost forever.
Coral Amayi floats down the Animas River near Durango, Colorado in July, 2010. This was one of the last photos taken before her camera was lost. (Courtesy Coral Amayi)
But 13 years later, and more than a mile down river, Spencer Greiner, 34, of Durango Colorado, was fly fishing last week, when he spotted possible “river booty,” that is, the occasional treasure found washed on shore….