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Artlantic Message in a Bottle, Part Two: The Real John Piper of Exeter

27 Saturday Aug 2011

Posted by Clint Buffington | Message in a Bottle Hunter in Adventure, archives of the sea, Finding and Meeting the Senders, Friendship, message in a bottle, plastic, Romance, Travel

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Three pencil sketches in a bottle I found washed ashore in the Caribbean in 2008.

That night, after my mom had taken the drawings out of the bottle, we passed them around, speculating.  Was this the work of a famous artist we weren’t familiar with?  Did we hold priceless treasure in our hands, the flippant gesture of an artist bored at sea?  What was this?!

I emailed John the very night I got home.

Dear Mr. Piper,

We are strangers to each other, or were, but you should know this: I found your pencil sketches—the ones you put in a big plastic bottle and tossed in the sea!

Two hour later, he wrote back to me!

What an amazing thing to happen. It has been drifting around since November 2006! When I threw it over the side of P & O cruise ship Oceana, (but then you might know that already, I can’t really remember what I put on the notes? It was only a bit of fun and just a very long shot). I had no idea where it would end up; probably swallowed by some passing whale perhaps? So where on earth did you find it? I am so totally overcome by this event.

I live in Exeter, in the County of Devon, in the South West of England. I am retired and painting and writing full time.

John Piper in the Caribbean in 2007

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Artlantic Message in a Bottle, Part One

17 Wednesday Aug 2011

Posted by Clint Buffington | Message in a Bottle Hunter in Adventure, archives of the sea, message in a bottle, plastic, Romance, Travel

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One crazy day in 2008, I found two messages in bottles on an uninhabited Caribbean island.

I’ve already told the story of the message on the right, which was from a woman named Janet.

But the one on the left is a different story…

I found it jammed under a rock ledge on a section of rocky coast.  This is how rocky the coast was. Like my high socks?

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Transubstantiation

09 Tuesday Aug 2011

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

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New Hope, Part Two: Finding and Meeting Janet

27 Wednesday Jul 2011

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

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Well, I found Janet and Bruce LaClair’s message in a bottle in February 2008. They had sent it from the bridge in New Hope, Pennsylvania, in 1981.

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"April 4, 1981. Launched from the Delaware River, New Hope, Pennsylvania. To Whomever is the finder and keeper of this bottle. This is the date of our wedding and the start of our life together. We are leaving Pennsylvania on April 6th, 1981 to go on our honeymoon at Key Largo, Florida until April 12 of the same year. We hope to find this bottle while there and figure out the traveling time of which the botle took (if it is a good time, the next time we come down there we will build a raft and just float down). If found, please respond with place found and date. Thank you. Mr. & Mrs. Bruce La Clair, P.O. Box 131, Pipersville, PA"
“April 4, 1981. Launched from the Delaware River, New Hope, Pennsylvania. To Whomever is the finder and keeper of this bottle. This is the date of our wedding and the start of our life together. We are leaving Pennsylvania on April 6th, 1981 to go on our honeymoon at Key Largo, Florida until April 12 of the same year. We hope to find this bottle while there and figure out the traveling time of which the botle took (if it is a good time, the next time we come down there we will build a raft and just float down). If found, please respond with place found and date. Thank you. Mr. & Mrs. Bruce La Clair, P.O. Box 131, Pipersville, PA”

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New Hope, Part One: Finding a Message in a Bottle Older Than Me

21 Thursday Jul 2011

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

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How I Found a Message in a Bottle Older Than Me – By Stepping on It!

One day in February of 2008, I stepped on this message in a bottle:

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That’s how I found it—no kidding: I stepped on it.  I was walking on dunes covered in vines and succulent tropical plants, and suddenly my foot slipped off something roundish.  When I pulled back the vines, there was this bottle, glinting sunlight back at me.

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Business Card in a Bottle, Part Two: Finding and Meeting Richard Kaplan

16 Saturday Jul 2011

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

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How a Business Card in a Bottle Led Me to New York City

After meeting Ed and Carol Meyers in Washington, D.C., I was back on the train, heading to New York City to meet Richard Kaplan. I was determined to get my money’s worth from my Amtrak Rail Pass! And, I needed to meet the man on the other end of this business card in a bottle I found two years earlier.

Richard Kaplan's business card in a bottle.

Richard Kaplan’s business card in a bottle.

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