@easternklaas, When I read your location, it occurred to me that a few months ago I read about floods in that part of
Australia, so I wonder if it is possible that some of the floods actually caused that paper wallet to appear on the beach? I think that the flood hit some houses and thus took some things with it into the river that flows into the sea, which then threw that wallet onto the beach.
It's just a theory, of course, but somehow it seems more realistic to me than someone walking on the beach with a paper wallet containing 0.6 BTC, losing it and not trying to find it.
Entirely possible Lucius. The paper wallet was wet and had obviously been in the water. The beach also receives lots of rubbish washed upon its shores and some interesting items have been found over the years. An ATM was recently recovered on the shoreline... In my opinion, the most likely scenario.. knowing the motivation of local riff raff, is that it came from some poor souls wallet or home and was deemed neither cash nor drugs. The crims around here are not terribly bright and wouldn't know what it was.