23 Saturday Sep 2017
Posted in Friendship, message in a bottle, ocean currents
A lot of days, I feel like the luckiest person in the world. Thanks to my strange hobby, people send me stories about their own message in a bottle experiences that are downright delightful and heartening.
Not long ago, Norah Brown-Davis wrote from Northern Ireland to share her family’s fascinating and heartwarming story. It’s such a Continue reading
13 Wednesday Sep 2017
Posted in Friendship, message in a bottle, News
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Dumfries, Family, Friendship, Inspiration, message in a bottle, News, Richardson and Starling, Scotland
Anyone who has ever renovated an old house knows it involves a bit of archaeology. Who installed this ceiling fan? Why are the walls insulated but not the ceiling? What lunatic placed a light switch inside the shower? Old houses are a grab-bag of choices made by previous owners, some perplexing, others delightful.
Clarke Elsby knows this well–he directs a team of technicians for Richardson & Starling contractors in Dumfries, Scotland.
12 Saturday Aug 2017
Posted in Adventure, Friendship, message in a bottle, plastic, Pollution
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#2MinuteBeachClean, Aberystwyth, Arklow, Friendship, Inspiration, Ireland, message in a bottle, News, United Kingdom, Wales
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
09 Wednesday Aug 2017
Posted in Friendship, message in a bottle, Mystery Message, News
Another fascinating and old message in a bottle has been discovered on Australia’s west coast! The Australian Broadcasting Corporation reports that Michael Thompson discovered a 35 year old message in a bottle on a remote beach in northwest Australia around Mundabullangana Station.
Look at this thing!
35 year old message in a bottle recently discovered by Michael Thompson. Photo: Michelle Stanley / ABC.net
05 Saturday Aug 2017
Posted in Friendship, Love, Mystery Message, News, ocean currents, weird news
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Cocoa Beach, February 26th 2009, Florida, Inspiration, message in a bottle, message in a shell, News, Shane and Jolene, wedding
Today: a tiny post about a tiny–but very intriguing–message.
At the end of July this year, Amy Mayes was walking Cocoa Beach with her husband and kids when they stumbled upon a shell that appeared to have writing on its inner surface, according to WKMG News 6 in Orlando.
Photo: Amy Mayes
25 Tuesday Jul 2017
Posted in Friendship, history, message in a bottle, News, weird news
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Edinburgh, history, Inspiration, Living Memory Association, message in a bottle, News, Scotland, Time Capsule, Viewforth
Living in the world of messages in bottles, there’s a certain level of coincidence that comes with the job. That’s what makes it so cool 🙂
But occasionally something happens that knocks even my socks off!
Laurence Reid, an Edinburgh resident who recently turned 90, spent his working life as a joiner, constructing the wooden elements of buildings and the like. According to a story published by the Edinburgh Evening News, he recently decided to donate an old carpenter’s plane to the Living Memory Association, which is not exactly a museum, but an organization that nevertheless keeps the past alive.
While there, Laurence and LMA worker Miles Tubbs, struck up a conversation. I can’t imagine the conversation they had that led to this next moment–but somehow Miles got the idea to show Laurence an item the Living Memory Association had recently acquired–a message in a bottle.
The message in a bottle at Living Memory Association. Photo: SWNS.com / Daily Mail
22 Saturday Jul 2017
Posted in Friendship, message in a bottle, Pollution, Science
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2015, Adele, Cambridge New York, Climate Change, Don Lehman, Donald Trump, Friendship, Hoosic River, Inspiration, message in a bottle, News, Owl Kill, The Post Star
My friends, I need your help!
Don Lehman, crime and county government writer for The Post Star in New York state, was fishing in the Hoosic River last week when he found a message in a bottle!
The message, from Evan Hutchinson of Cambridge, New York, is dated 2015, and strikes me as a truly intriguing find.
Evan’s message reads: Continue reading
21 Friday Jul 2017
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Atlantic Beach, Cary, Friendship, Inspiration, Madelyn, message in a bottle, News, north carolina, Raleigh, Wyatt
Woooo hoooo!
ABC11 News in North Carolina reports that Wyatt and his mom managed to track down Madelyn, whose message in a bottle Wyatt found on July 17th.
Turns out she’s 13 and lives just a few miles from Wyatt himself!
According to a note from Wyatt’s mother, the reason Continue reading
20 Thursday Jul 2017
Posted in Friendship, message in a bottle, Mystery Message
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919, Atlantic Beach, Cary, Friendship, Inspiration, Madelyn, message in a bottle, News, north carolina, Raleigh
July 17th, 2017 was a big day for 10-year-old Wyatt Young! He was with his family at Atlantic Beach, North Carolina, when he spotted a bottle with a note inside:
Wyatt Young with his Message in a Bottle find. Photo: Jenny Young
A beautiful find! Amazingly, the note inside Continue reading
28 Wednesday Jun 2017
Posted in Friendship, history, Love, message in a bottle, Romance
I recently stumbled upon a story that is equally heartwarming and heartbreaking…
Off the coast of Massachusetts lies a small island, a world unto itself, called Thacher Island.
In the early days Continue reading
