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Mystery Message in a Bottle: Ray from Philly has been found!!!

03 Monday Apr 2017

Posted by Clint Buffington | Message in a Bottle Hunter in Friendship, message in a bottle, Mystery Message, Travel

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6abc, Carnival Conquest, Inspiration, message in a bottle, Philadelphia

Another Mystery Message in a Bottle Solved!

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.

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A Message in a Bottle From the Sara II: Romance, Racing, & Reminiscing

13 Sunday Nov 2016

Posted by Clint Buffington | Message in a Bottle Hunter in Adventure, message in a bottle, Travel

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courtesy flag, Isle of Wight, Lymington, message in a bottle, sailing, Sara II, The Gun Inn

How I Found and Met the Authors of a Message in a Bottle from the Sara II

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:

Message in a Bottle from Sara II

Chris and John’s message in a bottle, sent from their sailboat, Sara II.

It came from this sailboat in 2004: Continue reading →

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A Message in a Bottle from the Sara II

30 Sunday Oct 2016

Posted by Clint Buffington | Message in a Bottle Hunter in Adventure, message in a bottle, Mystery Message, Travel

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Clint Buffington, message in a bottle, mystery message, Sailboat, Sara II

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?Chris and John Message in a Bottle 2011 2

The calendar was for 2004, which would make it Continue reading →

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Lost & Hound: 7 Messages in Bottles Found By Doggos

07 Wednesday Sep 2016

Posted by Clint Buffington | Message in a Bottle Hunter in message in a bottle, Travel

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beachcombing, Breda O'Sullivan, dog, dogs, Frank Hayostek, good news, happy news, lost and hound, message in a bottle, Sting

The Message in a Bottle Finding Doggos Who Fetched Treasure

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 →

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Canterbury Trails

17 Wednesday Feb 2016

Posted by Clint Buffington | Message in a Bottle Hunter 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:

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Litter

10 Wednesday Feb 2016

Posted by Clint Buffington | Message in a Bottle Hunter in Adventure, message in a bottle, Travel

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beachcombing, Clint Buffington, litter, message in a bottle, plastic trash

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:

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