“People would send us great letters and often photos of their found bottles,” she said.
Hearing from the people who found the bottles was always exciting. The fourth was dropped in September 2004 and found in 2008. One dropped in the ocean on Augwas found here by Manuel Moura the following January. Another from that same batch was not found until 2012. The first arrived in September 2004, a year after being tossed. Ms Zuill’s was the fifth bottle to have washed up here. “For a while many were being found in France, Spain, England, Portugal, Scotland and Ireland, but then some would spend years maybe stuck on rocks on small islands not visited frequently like Abaco in Bahamas.” “It was all dependent on the winter weather patterns, and which current the bottles would catch and travel on. “Bottles do not cross the equator,” Mrs Ames said. One bottle travelled for three years before it was found in Cuba. We soon found that we needed to save a copy of each letter batch dropped because the letters were being found in so many directions – from France to Canada and several islands in the Caribbean.” “The bottles would get washed, letters would get typed and printed up,” Mrs Ames said. Over the years they collected caseloads of empty wine bottles from Nantucket restaurants and deposited them into the ocean. “When he would go offshore fishing our two young daughters would help him make up bottles for him to drop in the ocean,” Mrs Ames said. Pennel Ames’s wife Sharon told The Royal Gazette that her husband was a commercial fisherman until he retired 15 years ago. Ames and included a post office box address in Nantucket. Please take the time to send us a note of your find. “I would be interested in knowing the location and the date / year that you found this message in a bottle. I assume it will land some place between Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard, or may even travel back to Nantucket! It was dropped into the ocean with many other bottles at the very same time, so look around and you may find other bottles in the area. “This bottle was thrown from a boat that was travelling between Nantucket, and Hyannis, Massachusetts. “Congratulations on finding a real message in a bottle,” it said. Then out of the blue, literally, I found one.”Īt home she read the later inside, which was dated April 18, 2016: “I was so excited that I found this message in a bottle, because every day I am out looking for one. “He kayaked up to a certain level and then said he was just going to throw it on the rocks. Will Collins agreed to collect the bottle for her. “I thought if I got to a certain level on the cliff, I could go over to that side.
From her perch on the railway trail above it, Ms Zuill deliberated for about 20 minutes.Ĭlimbing down seemed dangerous she thought about running home to Smith’s, to collect her pool net and “put a long extension on it”. There was just one problem – the bottle was located at the foot of a steep cliff. “I thought, that looks like a message in a bottle,” she said. She could just make out what looked like a piece of paper rolled up inside the brown wine bottle, which was floating on top of the water. “The long tails became a bit idle, so I glanced at the water. “I was out taking photos of long tails,” said the photographer, who frequently posts her shots on Facebook pages 441 Photo Bermuda and Bermuda’s Best Shots Photography. So when she spotted one floating in Bailey’s Bay last month, it was a dream come true. Laurie Zuill had been on the lookout for a message in a bottle her whole life. The bottle Laurie Zuill found floating in Bailey’s Bay (Photograph supplied)
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