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Patience

07 Wednesday Sep 2011

Posted by Message in a Bottle Hunter in Adventure, archives of the sea, Breaking a bottle, Love, message in a bottle, Romance, Travel

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Finding a message in a bottle is fun!

It’s also extremely addicting.  And when I’m landlocked and working, and my mind wanders back to the beach, and to bottles shining in sunlight–

I start getting a little batty!  The unopened bottles in my home become the tell-tale hearts of my life, always pulsing in their cardboard box, hijacking my concentration.  I stare at them and want to open them and yes, yes, their time will come!

But I have to be extremely careful.  The papers inside are the only links I have to the senders, soon to be (hopefully!) my friends.  Each one is priceless, each brittle paper.  So I wait until the time is right for each bottle, wait till I have time and a quiet day stretching out before me, when I can gather the tools and supplies I need.  And then, the bottles know: there is no escape!

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

27 Saturday Aug 2011

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

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Mystery Messages!

01 Monday Aug 2011

Posted by Message in a Bottle Hunter in Adventure, message in a bottle, Mystery Message, News, Romance, Travel

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Every now and then, I will be posting “mystery messages”. These are messages in bottles whose senders I cannot find—and I need your help!

Sometimes, mystery messages do not contain enough information. For example, Ed and Carol Meyers’ message, which only included their names—no contact info. Luckily, Cathy Dyson was able to unite us!

Other times, mystery messages are simply inscrutable—that is, they are totally, completely confusing:

What does this message say?! Baaahhh!!!

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New Hope, Part Two: Finding and Meeting Janet

27 Wednesday Jul 2011

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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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