So if you haven’t been watching the news, a fellow in Alaska found a 21 year old bottle washed ashore. It was from a 4th grader in Seattle. And now, 21 years later, someone found it. I thought this was kinda cool. I’ve often thought about sending letters in bottles, just to see what happens. I realize that most of them just float around and are never ‘found’ per se. But really it all just sounds so… romantic is the word I’m looking for I think.
Remember that movie Message in a Bottle with Kevin Costner and Robin Wright Penn (Jenny!)? I loved that movie. But yeah, something about sending messages in a bottle to be found (hopefully) seems so cool to me. I’m not entirely sure why. I guess this would probably tell a lot about me.
Then you know, there’s the scientist in me that is calculating the odds of the bottle even making it’s course to another shore. There are so many factors we do know about the ocean (sharks, whales, etc), and there are so many unknowns about the ocean (deep sea monsters, godzilla, etc). It’s unimaginable to the scientist in me for a bottle to travel from say the Washington state coast across the Pacific ocean to be found by someone in say Japan.
So I’ve taken enough of your time with this silliness. I guess the romantic in me decided to take over and express his feelings about Messages in bottles.
I remember doing things similar to that when I was in School, the old “Send a Box around the world” thing. It’s interesting to see just how far things like that can go though.
I never did that kinda stuff in school. at least I don’t remember.