On Monday I was counting dead stuff on Sunset beach and came across a stoppered green bottle with a note in it. I've been walking beaches for 20 some years now and this is my first message in a bottle. The folks who'd put the note in the bottle said they'd got married in Garibaldi on March 24. The problem was that I found it on March 24. It seemed unlikely that it could have got from Garibaldi to Sunset Beach in such a short amount of time.
I received an email today from the couple who set the bottle adrift. They released the bottle from a chartered fishing boat 14 miles west of Garibaldi on March 22. They got married two days later on the 24th.
Michelle and I released the bottle in the Columbia River at 6th Street on an outgoing tide. When last we saw it, it was being drawn out into the channel. Hopefully, it made it past the bar with the river plume and is once again ocean bound. We've added our name on a separate piece of paper. Perhaps we'll hear from another beach comber soon.
Posted by mbalame at March 26, 2008 1:14 PM