Kevin Eichelberger was in the middle of a Bahamas getaway with friends when they found something that immediately made the trip worthwhile.

"It was about 100 to 200 yards out," he told weather.com. "We saw it from the steps of our beach house."

What they found last Friday were pieces of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket wreckage, which had washed up on the shores of Elbow Cay weeks after the ship's booster crash-landed in mid-April. The metal chunk was covered in barnacles, he said. It didn't take them long to identify it as SpaceX wreckage.

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When the men examined the debris more closely, they noticed there were two housing units for GoPro cameras that still held the devices, as well as SpaceX identification. They removed the cameras and tried to access data from their memory cards, but didn't find anything on those cards.

As soon as he made the discovery, Eichelberger sent a tweet toElon Musk, CEO of SpaceX. After a weekend of silence, he finally heard back, and Musk expressed his appreciation for Eichelberger's discovery along the beach.

Eichelberger, the founder and CEO of Charleston, South Carolina-based eCommerce agency Blue Acorn, said it was thrilling to see Musk in his Twitter mentions, but SpaceX did not express interest in retrieving the debris.

The Falcon 9 rocket successfully delivered supplies to the International Space Station last month. Attempts to land the rocket's booster on a platform in the ocean failed, however, causing it to ,Wired said.

Eichelberger joked that the wreckage was far too large and heavy to get through customs on a flight back to America, so they left artifact on the beach. A few more photos of the debris are below.

Rocket Wreckage

Debris from the SpaceX Falcon 9 crash is seen along the beach of Elbow Cay in the Bahamas on Friday, May 29, 2015. (All photos courtesy of Kevin Eichelberger)