A boater discovered 65 pounds of cocaine, valued at an estimated $1 million, floating in the Florida Keys, according to the U.S. Border Patrol.

The packages, adorned with images of bald eagles, were found around noon on Saturday. The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office reported that “mariners in a private vessel found a package containing approximately 21 individually wrapped kilograms of suspected cocaine.

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