09 Wednesday Aug 2017
Posted in Friendship, message in a bottle, Mystery Message, News
Another fascinating and mysterious 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
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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. A message in a shell.
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
29 Saturday Jul 2017
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history, Inspiration, Japan, Lt. Col. Eugene J. McNamara, message in a bottle, military, News, Stars and Stripes, Yokohama
According to an article published by Stars and Stripes on June 15th, 2017, a 70 year old message in a bottle has been discovered in the Hotel New Grand in Japan’s Yokohama Harbor during renovations. The message dates to the years after the war when the US occupied Japan. Now, the hotel is searching for McNamara’s surviving descendants, if he has any, to connect them with this piece of their family history. As a military message in a bottle from the era of post – World War II, this bottled note is especially intriguing.
Whiskey bottle with McNamara’s name on the front, and his business card within. Photo credit: Erik Slavin / Stars and Stripes.
The front of the business card simply lists McNamara’s name and rank. The brief note written on the back of the business card is pretty straightforward: Continue reading
20 Thursday Jul 2017
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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
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.
13 Saturday May 2017
Posted in Flaschenpost, Friendship, Love, message in a bottle, Mystery Message, plastic, Pollution, Romance
Manon van der Molen is the kind of person who picks up trash off the beach. Plenty of people get upset about plastic trash at sea, mucking up our beaches. But Manon? She actually does something about it. That’s how she stumbled upon a photo in a bottle.
“I hate all the trash in the ocean,” Manon told me. A kindred spirit! She has even volunteered with the Archelon Marine Turtle Protection Association.
“My kids are amazed by all the plastic in the ocean and do not understand why people do that. See–even kids understand!” Indeed. I think kids often understand these things better than adults. It’s obvious, even to children, that too many of us are not taking care of the ocean. But we could.
So, when Manon was walking the beach with her family–her husband and three kids–on May 5th, 2017, at De Haan, Belgium, she was picking up plastic trash. That’s a great way to help! And sometimes, among the trash, we stumble upon a little “treasure”–a reward for cleaning the beach, in the form of an unexpected human connection. A reminder, perhaps, that while most of what’s floating around in the ocean is simply trash that shouldn’t be there, still…maybe, just maybe, one in a billion or so pieces of flotsam can create an amazing and beautiful connection between strangers.
“That’s when I found the tube,” she told Continue reading