Popular Post Still Waters Posted March 6, 2018 Popular Post #1 Share Posted March 6, 2018 A Perth family has made an extraordinary historical discovery after becoming bogged on a West Australian beach. Tonya Illman was walking across sand dunes just north of Wedge Island, 180 kilometres north of Perth, when she noticed something sticking out of the sand. "It just looked like a lovely old bottle, so I picked it up thinking it might look good in my bookcase," she said. But Mrs Illman realised she had likely uncovered something far more special when out fell a damp, rolled up piece of paper tied with string. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-06/oldest-known-message-in-a-bottle-found-on-wa-beach/9518632 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astra. Posted March 6, 2018 #2 Share Posted March 6, 2018 It would certainly be awesome to find something as special as that. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarah_444 Posted March 7, 2018 #3 Share Posted March 7, 2018 Well that certainly puts my seaglass collection to shame. What a cool find! 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawken Posted March 7, 2018 #4 Share Posted March 7, 2018 That's really some neat stuff. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paperdyer Posted March 7, 2018 #5 Share Posted March 7, 2018 Talk about snail mail! 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stiff Posted March 7, 2018 #6 Share Posted March 7, 2018 It's still quicker than DHL Express. If you ever want to get rid of a body, package it up and send it off with DHL, it'll never be seen again. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timothy Posted March 8, 2018 #7 Share Posted March 8, 2018 10 hours ago, .saraharas. said: Well that certainly puts my seaglass collection to shame. What a cool find! I’m sure that your seaglass collection is more than sufficient. As for OP, it is a really cool find. Surely there are still many others undiscovered out there. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawken Posted March 8, 2018 #8 Share Posted March 8, 2018 Has anyone ever done that when they were kids? Put a message in a bottle and throw it in a river or stream. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astra. Posted March 8, 2018 #9 Share Posted March 8, 2018 32 minutes ago, Hawkin said: Has anyone ever done that when they were kids? Put a message in a bottle and throw it in a river or stream. No, not that I can remember. But I have thought about it, as it would be nice to put something like a poem, or your own private thoughts into a little bottle and let the ocean take it away to far places and distant shores, where someone may one day find your message. Have you ever sent a little message off into a river or stream Hawkin...if not, what type of message would it be ? .. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawken Posted March 8, 2018 #10 Share Posted March 8, 2018 29 minutes ago, Astra. said: No, not that I can remember. But I have thought about it, as it would be nice to put something like a poem, or your own private thoughts into a little bottle and let the ocean take it away to far places and distant shores, where someone may one day find your message. Have you ever sent a little message off into a river or stream Hawkin...if not, what type of message would it be ? .. In the 6th grade, my school teacher would have us kids fill helium balloons. Put a self addressed stamp postcard in a plastic bag and tie it to the balloon and set it a drift. Whoever found it would it mail it back. We could tell where it landed by the postmark. The balloons went all over the states and some to Canada. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astra. Posted March 8, 2018 #11 Share Posted March 8, 2018 5 minutes ago, Hawkin said: In the 6th grade, my school teacher would have us kids fill helium balloons. Put a self addressed stamp postcard in a plastic bag and tie it to the balloon and set it a drift. Whoever found it would it mail it back. We could tell where it landed by the postmark. The balloons went all over the states and some to Canada. Wow, what a lovely idea. She sounded like a pretty cool and fun school teacher to have had. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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