03 Monday Apr 2017
Posted in Friendship, message in a bottle, Mystery Message, Travel
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! Mystery message solved!
Can you tell I’m excited?
RAY FROM PHILLY HAS BEEN FOUND! And guess what? He’s awesome.
Y’all, when I found this message in a bottle, I thought it was a hopeless case. The bottle was falling apart, and the writing was so faded I couldn’t see anything. I was bummed.
13 Sunday Nov 2016
Posted in Adventure, message in a bottle, Travel
It was by pure luck that I found the senders of this message in a bottle from the sailboat Sara II, which I found in 2011:
Chris and John’s message in a bottle, sent from their sailboat, Sara II.
It came from this sailboat in 2004: Continue reading
30 Sunday Oct 2016
Posted in Adventure, message in a bottle, Mystery Message, Travel
Five days after I found Kelvin’s message in a bottle, I was hiking with my brother on an uninhabited island when I found what looked like a calendar in a bottle with writing on the inside. Check out how rocky the shore is! Can you spot the bottle?
The calendar was for 2004, which would make it Continue reading
07 Wednesday Sep 2016
Posted in message in a bottle, Travel
Tags
beachcombing, Breda O'Sullivan, dog, dogs, Frank Hayostek, good news, happy news, lost and hound, message in a bottle, Sting
I love doggos. I love their intelligence and their remarkable curiosity–I know dogs who simply can’t sniff enough things in this life to be satisfied. Maybe it shouldn’t be surprising that so many doggos have found messages in bottles, but it flips me out! This post is dedicated to all the messages in bottles found by doggos yappers, puppers, woofers, and floofers out there. These doggos have found some truly fascinating messages in bottles–one even saved a life. Continue reading
17 Wednesday Feb 2016
Posted in Adventure, message in a bottle, Travel
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Canterbury, Chaucer, Clint Buffington, Garden of England, Geoffrey Chaucer, Letterboxing, message in a bottle, Pilgrim's Way, public footpath
Here’s that bottle I found while shuffling past a bunch of plastic body parts on the beach in 2011:
10 Wednesday Feb 2016
Posted in Adventure, message in a bottle, Travel
There’s something beautiful but unsettling about cloudy days in the Caribbean. You expect every day on every Caribbean island to look more or less like a Corona commercial: blue skies, turquoise water, blinding white sand. When it’s not like that, something just feels…off. And so it was that I set out on a gray, cloudy beach hike May 26th, 2011 feeling all gray and cloudy myself.
Somehow, that mood transferred to my beachcombing and it affected what I saw. I kept zooming in on stuff like this:
