05 Saturday Aug 2017
Posted in Friendship, Love, Mystery Message, News, ocean currents, weird news
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Cocoa Beach, February 26th 2009, Florida, Inspiration, message in a bottle, message in a shell, News, Shane and Jolene, wedding
Today: a tiny post about a tiny–but very intriguing–message. A message in a shell.
At the end of July this year, Amy Mayes was walking Cocoa Beach with her husband and kids when they stumbled upon a shell that appeared to have writing on its inner surface, according to WKMG News 6 in Orlando.
Photo: Amy Mayes
29 Saturday Jul 2017
Posted in message in a bottle, Mystery Message, News
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history, Inspiration, Japan, Lt. Col. Eugene J. McNamara, message in a bottle, military, News, Stars and Stripes, Yokohama
According to an article published by Stars and Stripes on June 15th, 2017, a 70 year old message in a bottle has been discovered in the Hotel New Grand in Japan’s Yokohama Harbor during renovations. The message dates to the years after the war when the US occupied Japan. Now, the hotel is searching for McNamara’s surviving descendants, if he has any, to connect them with this piece of their family history. As a military message in a bottle from the era of post – World War II, this bottled note is especially intriguing.
Whiskey bottle with McNamara’s name on the front, and his business card within. Photo credit: Erik Slavin / Stars and Stripes.
The front of the business card simply lists McNamara’s name and rank. The brief note written on the back of the business card is pretty straightforward: Continue reading
22 Saturday Jul 2017
Posted in Friendship, message in a bottle, Pollution, Science
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2015, Adele, Cambridge New York, Climate Change, Don Lehman, Donald Trump, Friendship, Hoosic River, Inspiration, message in a bottle, News, Owl Kill, The Post Star
A lot of famous people’s names end up in messages in bottles, and to that list we can now add Adele and Donald Trump.
Don Lehman, crime and county government writer for The Post Star in New York state, was fishing in the Hoosic River last week when he found a message in a bottle!
The message, from Evan Hutchinson of Cambridge, New York, is dated 2015, and strikes me as a truly intriguing find.
Evan’s message reads: Continue reading
21 Friday Jul 2017
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Atlantic Beach, Cary, Friendship, Inspiration, Madelyn, message in a bottle, News, north carolina, Raleigh, Wyatt
Woooo hoooo! Another message in a bottle solved!
ABC11 News in North Carolina reports that Wyatt and his mom managed to track down Madelyn, whose message in a bottle Wyatt found on July 17th.
Turns out she’s 13 and lives just a few miles from Wyatt himself!
According to a note from Wyatt’s mother, the reason Continue reading
20 Thursday Jul 2017
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919, Atlantic Beach, Cary, Friendship, Inspiration, Madelyn, message in a bottle, News, north carolina, Raleigh
July 17th, 2017 was a big day for 10-year-old Wyatt Young! He was with his family at Atlantic Beach, North Carolina, when he spotted a bottle with a note inside:
Wyatt Young with his Message in a Bottle find. Photo: Jenny Young
A beautiful find! Amazingly, the note inside Continue reading
26 Friday May 2017
Posted in Adventure, Friendship, Joke, message in a bottle, Mystery Message, News, plastic, Pollution
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1987, Arastradero Lake, California, Daniele Rodolfi, Enid Pearson Arastradero Preserve, Inspiration, message in a bottle, Mystery, News, Palo Alto, Paul Southworth
Well, this is a weird one! A 1987 message in a bottle mystery from a small lake in California.
Enviro-crusader and “litter picker” Paul Southworth (I am a fan!) was recently out cleaning trash from Arastradero Lake in California–it’s nestled in the San Francisco Bay area. Woo hoo!
Paul with his trusty litter grabber and bags of junk from litterpicking the O&W Rail Trail in Kerhonkson, NY.