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Welcome, CBS Viewers!

28 Thursday Jul 2011

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

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I hope you’ll take a minute to check out the additional message-in-a-bottle stories I have posted below.  Click here for the original post on the Beachcomber Coke bottle.

Come back soon.

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New Hope, Part Two: Finding and Meeting Janet

27 Wednesday Jul 2011

Posted by 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”

But how would I find them? The message was older than I was! Continue reading →

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Business Card in a Bottle, Part One: Finding the Message

11 Monday Jul 2011

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One day in May of 2007, I decided to go on a big hike over some rocky bluffs along the ocean, and I ended up finding this message in a bottle:

My original goal was to get from one beach to another, but I wanted to see what the coastline was like between the two beaches. Here’s a map of my hike, and what I discovered:

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Video of NBC LEX 18 Interview

03 Sunday Jul 2011

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Trumpets! Fanfare! Here is the story LEX 18 ran on me July 1st. Devon Patton is the reporter.

Naturally, this video is the work of LEX 18 News.

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An Old Message in an Old Coke Bottle

02 Saturday Jul 2011

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

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Ye Olde Timey Coke Bottle

Thanks again to Devon Patton from LEX18 News who interviewed me yesterday.  We spent 2 hours talking and deciphering messages, but of course air time is limited and this post provides a bit more detail about what we found.
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Message in a Bottle Hunter

30 Thursday Jun 2011

Posted by Message in a Bottle Hunter in How it All Started

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In this blog, I will be posting about my experiences with finding messages in bottles, tracking down the senders, and hopefully, my experiences with meeting them in person.

Ready to pop some corks!

I found my first message in a bottle in 2007. Somehow, my family has developed a sort of instinct over the years for seeking out unusual things—like morel mushrooms and glass fishing buoys.  So, when I found that first message—one of a million pieces of garbage on a desolate beach—something strangely familiar clicked for me, and finding messages in bottles became the latest manifestation of that instinct.

It started with a graduation present from my parents: a two-week trip to the Caribbean with my dad. When dad and I landed, we were in search of adventure, as always, and in search of interesting stuff, as always. One day, we traveled to a desolate island and walked the beach, picking through the bizarre trash that washes up on the shore there: toilet seats, shoes, hard hats, dolls, chairs, port-a-potties, and countless bottles.

I must have walked past several thousand bottles that day—it is almost unbelievable, the variety of bottles on this beach.  In fact, I had almost zoned out when something caught my eye—it was a blue bottle lying right on the sand, like it had just washed up.  It hit me like a snakebite—I could see there was something inside.  I stumbled over to the bottle and held it up, examining the contents: bright orange paper rolled up tightly and tied with a piece of string that poked out the top of the bottle which had a rubber cork.  Wrapped around the message inside were two US dollars.

First Message. Photo altered to protect the identities of the senders.

That bottle sparked something in me, something that led to finding many more messages, something that led to this blog. As for now—who knows?  I hope I can find these senders, and meet them.

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