12 Saturday Aug 2017
Posted in Adventure, Friendship, message in a bottle, plastic, Pollution
There are a few kinds of message in a bottle stories I am a sucker for. Near the top of the list are those involving kiddos, and those highlighting the plastic pollution plague in our ocean. This story does both!
Rachel and Olivia, 12 and 9 respectively, each sent a message in a bottle while on a family outing in Brittas Bay, Ireland, near Arklow, according to BBC Wales.
Rachel, left, and Olivia, right. Photo: Mythen Family / Shemazing.net
26 Friday May 2017
Posted in Adventure, Friendship, Joke, message in a bottle, Mystery Message, News, plastic, Pollution
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1987, Arastradero Lake, California, Daniele Rodolfi, Enid Pearson Arastradero Preserve, Inspiration, message in a bottle, Mystery, News, Palo Alto, Paul Southworth
Well, this is a weird one! A 1987 message in a bottle mystery from a small lake in California.
Enviro-crusader and “litter picker” Paul Southworth (I am a fan!) was recently out cleaning trash from Arastradero Lake in California–it’s nestled in the San Francisco Bay area. Woo hoo!
Paul with his trusty litter grabber and bags of junk from litterpicking the O&W Rail Trail in Kerhonkson, NY.
11 Saturday Mar 2017
Posted in Adventure, Love, message in a bottle, ocean currents, Romance
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Biker Bob, Brian Lynn, Canoe to Ketchikan, cremated, Family, Gary Robert Dupuis, Gordon Skinny Smith, human ashes in a bottle, John Lea, Mel Stanley, message in a bottle
Life is such an amazing adventure that most folks don’t want it to end. And when it inevitably does, some send their loved ones on a final journey–but putting cremated ashes in a bottle and sending it to sea. In recent years, a number of beachcombers have stumbled upon human ashes in bottles. In every case, the person whose ashes are in the bottle was deeply loved by their family, and the family chose this gesture as a way of honoring the person’s love of travel or desire to see the world.
Personally, my favorite version of this memorial is the kind that implores the finder to share a drink with the “person” whose ashes are in the bottle.
If you find human remains in a bottle tomorrow, I guarantee a stiff drink is going to make you feel less nervous. Continue reading
18 Saturday Feb 2017
Posted in Adventure, archives of the sea, hoax, Mystery Message, News, ocean currents, Science, Uncategorized
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archives of the sea, castaway, hoax, Inspiration, Long Island Sound, message in a bottle, New York Times, News, North Atlantic Current, Norwegian Current, shipwreck, SS Crathie, SS Elbe, The North Sea
On January 30th, 1895, a German steamship called Elbe was in the North Sea, making her way from Bremerhaven to New York carrying 354 passengers.
SS Elbe
In the predawn hours of January 31st, she was accidentally rammed by Continue reading
27 Friday Jan 2017
Posted in Adventure, Friendship, Love, message in a bottle, Mystery Message, Romance
One day in 2013, a young woman named Jess and her dog were walking along the beach on the UK’s east coast.
Suddenly, something caught her eye Continue reading
20 Sunday Nov 2016
Posted in Adventure, message in a bottle
It may sound funny coming from me, but the odds of finding even a single message in a bottle are astronomical. Finding two from the same person? That’s just bananas. My family and I have found a few from the same senders, technically–like the Guinness messages in bottles–but they’re a big company, and they sent 150,000 of them! As for individual people, I knew of only one other person in the world who had found two messages in bottles from the same individual person. Until I heard from Continue reading