Spending the day on the beach always provides plenty of family memories to cherish, although we’re not sure if this family will be cherishing theirs. 

 

A family in Wales have made the headlines after their two kids played with what they thought was a buoy, but in fact turned out to be a World War II bomb.

 

Mum Kelly Gravell took pictures and videos of her son and daughter playing with the ‘buoy’ not realising that it was something more sinister, until a few days later.

 

“We were more fascinated by the barnacles on it. My son was touching it and was knocking on it a little bit, and that was it really,” Kelly told ABC News.

 

However, a few days after their trip, the family found out that it was a United States military mine bomb, which dates back to WWII.

 

“The realisation that it was a bomb — it was completely shocking for us. We realise now just how lucky we were," she admitted. 

 

 

Explaining that it is common for buoys to wash up in the area, Allison Thomas-David from Carmarthenshire County Council, said: “It very much looks like a buoy - which we get on the regular - but around it was gooseneck barnacles."

 

"Of course as the barnacles started dropping off, that’s when we could see writings exposed,” she added.

 

The bomb was later detonated in a controlled explosion and no one was hurt.

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