27 Friday Jan 2017
Posted in Adventure, Friendship, Love, message in a bottle, Mystery Message, Romance
One day in 2013, a young woman named Jess and her dog were walking along the beach on the UK’s east coast.
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21 Saturday Jan 2017
Posted in archives of the sea, Friendship, message in a bottle, Mystery Message, News
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Bernd Igwerks, donkeyman, Edinburgh, Flaschenpost, Help, Inspiration, James Robertson, message in a bottle, Mystery, Norderney
My friends, we have a mystery to solve!
On January 12th, 2017, Nomo Online published a brief article–just a wee little paragraph–about a man named Bernd Igwerks who had just found a message in a bottle sent in 1970.
Bernd Igwerks, with the 46 Year Old Message in a Bottle He Found. Photo courtesy: Nomo Online / nomo-norderney.de
Whoa. That caught my eye! As best I could tell, they Continue reading
31 Saturday Dec 2016
Posted in Friendship, message in a bottle
Rebecca Whittaker discovered a note in a bottle while walking along Widemouth Bay on November 16th, 2016. After posting a photo of the message online, she connected with the 12 year old sender, Ciara, from Ireland.
Ciara’s Message in a Bottle
Ciara then sent Rebecca a card wishing her Continue reading
24 Tuesday Nov 2015
Posted in Adventure, archives of the sea, Friendship, Love, message in a bottle, Romance, Travel
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Clint Buffington, Gwen and Clinton Bennett, Inspiration, love, marseille, message in a bottle, travel
Marseille’s shoreline glitters under the Mediterranean sun. Legend has it the first messages in bottles were sent in these very waters a couple thousand years ago by a Greek fellow named Theophrastus who hung out with both Plato and Aristotle.
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12 Wednesday Aug 2015
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2015 European Heat Wave, algalita marine research foundation, Clint Buffington, Dusseldorf, Energie Pyramide, Frank O. Gehry, German TV Tower, Germany, Inspiration, Kaiserpfalz, Kaiserswerth, Konigsallee, Maxim Gorkiy, message in a bottle, Meteora Grill, plastic, Pollution, Rhein, Rhine, Sabine, Thomas Schonauer
Sabine’s message in a bottle had proven to be such a mystery for so long, I really didn’t know what I expected to happen if I tried to visit her in Dusseldorf…
Nevertheless, July 1st, 2015 I found myself on a Germanwings flight from London to Dusseldorf. I had just flown from Chicago to London the night before on a flight I shared with a former student from 4 or 5 years before–Crazy! It felt like leaving the states was like going through a portal—here on the other side, in Europe, anything was possible.
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07 Tuesday Jul 2015
Posted in Adventure, archives of the sea, message in a bottle, Mystery Message, plastic, Pollution, weird news
I’ve often marveled at the variety of things that end up in bottles on the beach. I mean, the variety among the messages folks write is amazing in itself. But then, beyond that, there’s a lot of other…stuff…that people put into bottles, often for reasons unknown.
In truth, every bottle on the beach sends a message, doesn’t it? Sometimes, the message seems to be: “I was sent here by someone who doesn’t care about destroying fragile ecosystems!” Sometimes, the message is more like: “Oops! I was using this bottle when the wind kicked up and blew it into the sea.” Many bottles (and other objects) are spilled from ships during storms, or find their way into the ocean after having been dumped in a river. In any case, lying there in piles of thousands on the beach, the collective message is clear: this is not good.