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
30 Tuesday Aug 2016
Posted in message in a bottle, Mystery Message
This post is named inaccurately. See, this was actually the first mystery message I solved–not the seventh!
It was 2007, and I had just found my very first messages in bottles. I couldn’t believe it was happening–this thing I’d dreamed of for years (finding a message in a bottle) had suddenly become a reality. Crazy!
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28 Tuesday Jun 2016
Posted in Adventure, message in a bottle, Mystery Message
It has been a while since I have posted one of the “Mystery Messages” that keep me up nights, wondering who on earth sent them and why.
You might remember The Case of the Crazy Dollar Bill, or the mystery message from Christopher aboard the Gripsholm, also known as the Sagafjord. You might recall The Mystery of the Beautiful Terrorist, or the Mystery Cameras I found washed ashore–one of which contained photos of a man I am hoping to identify. 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:
04 Thursday Feb 2016
Posted in Adventure, message in a bottle, ocean currents, Travel
