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adventure, Art, beachcombing, Caribbean, Clint Buffington, John Piper, message in a bottle, ocean, romance, travel
One crazy day in 2008, I found two messages in bottles on an uninhabited Caribbean island.
I’ve already told the story of the message on the right, which was from a woman named Janet.
But the one on the left is a different story…
I found it jammed under a rock ledge on a section of rocky coast. This is how rocky the coast was. Like my high socks?
Check out those socks! AND those rocks…
I found the bottles on my mom’s birthday. For her birthday present, my mom chose to open the plastic bottle.
So, sitting there on the blue/floral couch you see above (with my mom’s knees in the bottom right corner!), my mom opened this bottle. My dad was there, too, and all three of us were completely stunned when she pulled these out of the bottle:
Stunned, I tell you! It’s stunning, right? On the back side of the guy playing steel drums was this message:
Now let’s zoom in on the sketches:
“The Caribbean”
“Bathsheba” – Barbados
“Sledging in Trinidad”
Madness! Who puts artwork in a bottle and then tosses it into the sea?!
John Piper, apparently. That’s who. But…who was he?
Click here to read the second part of this story and find out!
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can i request a message in a bottle for my bday. ta
How about another story looking forward to it.
I’m looking forward to it, too! Stay tuned for a new post in the next 24 hours 🙂
were is the page were you can buy stuff??????????????
do you sell shirts??
As a 25 year old young woman, (55 now) I accepted a job working as a deckhand on Exxon’s deep seagoing fleet of oil tankers. I think I must have put messages in bottles and tossed one overboard almost every day. Being on an oil tanker, my bottle choices were limited. This was before plastic was used so much, so they were glass. I used ketchup bottles, the dark brown A-1 sauce or soy sauce bottles, jars, liquor bottles – you name it. I don’t know if any of them were ever found, as I’ve never heard a peep from anyone about any of them. Maybe you’ll yet find one some day, Clint. 🙂
Certainly not THE John Piper from Desiring God??
http://www.desiringgod.org/
Hehe…
This John Piper lives in the Uk and is from a family which dates back to at least 1165 AD. and probably longer …………
so fairl;y well established here .
John.W. Piper
What a find! Original artwork from various parts of the world! I am so inspired, so now do I not only want to throw a message in bottle in the sea next time I get there, but as an artist, I now want to add some of my own sketches.
Do you know how many miles this bottle has traveled? Has anyone been able to get in touch with you who knows about this. I am sure there are stories!
Thanks Gail!
Stay tuned…