The Hallelujah Rock!

While cleaning up the beach my husband found an interesting ‘rock’ today. It’s funny because I told him (via text) this morning when he was on his way out to the beach to be on the lookout for ambergris, which is of course I am hoping his rock is. Ambergris is something I blogged about back on March 16^th in 2013. It is excreted (vomited or through other digestive channels) by sperm whales and used in the perfume industry. In my previous blog I mentioned that it was something I was keeping an eye out for on my beach walks because of its value, upwards of $10,000 per pound and the fact that it has been known to be found on the beaches in the Bahamas. So I wasn't surprised when my husband sent me this photo of the ‘rock’ he found in the high tide wrack line today but I was excited. Then I read online about a lady that found a diamond the size of a pinto bean, 3.96 carat, in Arkansas' Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfreesboro. She has named it the Hallelujah Diamond and its value is easily comparable to that of a pound of ambergris. She is planning to keep it. Of course I figure my husband would prefer to keep money over a smelly beach rock, at least that’s what I think. If it isn't ambergris and hence it does become a keeper I’m naming it the Hallelujah Rock!