Gillian Devon (50), who lives in St Brelade, said she has no idea what the heavy, odourless object could be.
‘I kicked it with my Wellington boot and I ended up with a red toe. It is greasy, waxy, almost resin-like and has got plastic, rope and bottle-tops sticking out of it,’ she said. ‘I phoned the Environment Department and they said that it looks like a buoy but it’s not a buoy – it is really heavy.
‘It looks like it has been tossed around in the sea collecting debris but I do not know what it is made of.’
Fisheries and Marine Resources officers were due to collect the object yesterday afternoon to try to find out what it is.
Earlier this week a three-metre-tall American coastguard marker buoy was found bobbing around off the south coast after crossing the Atlantic.
Other unusual objects have been discovered around the coast in recent years, including a manual for an aircraft carrier’s nuclear reactor, and an ocean data recorder which washed ashore at La Pulente in 2016 after travelling all the way from Florida.
