04 Saturday Nov 2017
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They went looking for trash. What they found was pure treasure: A 1988 message in a bottle.
David Humphries cleaning Nanny Goat Beach. Photo: Linda Humprhies.
Linda and David Humphries were cleaning up Nanny Goat Beach–which obviously has the best beach name ever–in the wake of Hurricane Irma on October 14th, 2017, when David stumbled upon a piece of paper in a bottle. Continue reading
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. These stories are almost always delightful and heartening. Often, a simple letter in a bottle has the power to change lives.
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
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. 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 Wednesday Mar 2017
Posted in archives of the sea, message in a bottle, ocean currents, weird news
What if I told you that an entire community once used messages in bottles as their actual postal system? Meet the Islands of St. Kilda.
18 Saturday Mar 2017
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In its early days, Australia had two main newspapers. One was The Argus. On Friday, July 9th, 1909, The Argus told of a castaway message in a bottle found in Singapore. It was signed by two men, Palmerston and Flenn, who asked the finder to send help, as they were “lost in one of the New Guinea islands”.
The brief message simply read: Continue reading
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