29 Wednesday Mar 2017
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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 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
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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. 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
01 Wednesday Mar 2017
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On the morning of July 26th, 2016, Kristin Morin was out for a walk on Cape Neddick beach in York, Maine, with two of her four children. The out-of-the-way beach was quiet, and the tide was low. Perfect beachcombing conditions.
“There’s an exposed sand bar,” Kristin wrote in her message to Continue reading
18 Saturday Feb 2017
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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
07 Tuesday Feb 2017
Posted in Friendship, message in a bottle, Mystery Message, ocean currents
As fond as I am of finding and responding to messages in bottles, I am not the best at listening to or responding to voice messages on my phone. I know, I know. That’s bad of me…
But it seems I am not alone in this bad habit!
In late January, 2017, Vince Stango (cool name, hey?) was walking along the beach in Long Beach Island, New Jersey, when he spotted a bottle with paper inside.
Stuart’s Message in a Bottle, found by Vince Stango. Photo Courtesy: Peter Ackerman / Asbury Park Press
06 Tuesday Dec 2016
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Dagny Arnarsdottir was just 9 years old when her class sent out messages in bottles to see where they would end up. But the lesson wasn’t complete until now, as IceNews reports.
It’s a lovely story! In her message, Dagny says she is interested in Visual Arts. Today, she goes to Art School!
Read the whole story at the link above, if you want. Here’s the message though:
Dagny’s Message. Photo Credit: Dagny Arnarsdottir
04 Sunday Dec 2016
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It’s crazy–it doesn’t matter how many messages in bottles I find, each one feels like magic.
Now, I know Continue reading
04 Thursday Feb 2016
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12 Wednesday Aug 2015
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Sabine’s message in a bottle had proven to be such a mystery for so long, I really didn’t know what I expected to happen if I tried to visit her in Dusseldorf…
Nevertheless, July 1st, 2015 I found myself on a Germanwings flight from London to Dusseldorf. I had just flown from Chicago to London the night before on a flight I shared with a former student from 4 or 5 years before–Crazy! It felt like leaving the states was like going through a portal—here on the other side, in Europe, anything was possible.
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