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At Christmas, surprises usually come wrapped in glittery paper and tied up with bows. But for one Nova Scotia man, a surprise arrived in the form of a message in a bottle that washed ashore after 29 years.
Wayne Patterson does a lot of beach combing near his home in Joggins, N.S. A couple of weeks ago, he noticed a clear plastic bottle with bits of paper inside.
“I noticed this with the notes in it,” Patterson told CTV Atlantic, holding the bottle and demonstrating where he had to cut open the side to remove the notes.
“I was quite surprised that they were from three little girls.”
The notes asked that whoever found the bottle contact the girls who sent it. The phone numbers and addresses were from Saint John, N.B.
Patterson called one of the numbers, which still belongs to the parents of one of the girls. Michelle Daly was actually at her parents’ home when Patterson’s call came through.
Daly, a 37-year-old mother of two, says that “never in a million years” would she have expected the bottle to be found.
She was nine years old when she and two friends threw the bottle in the water near the Digby ferry in Saint John.
“We were just playing around and decided to write a note and see what would happen,” Daly told CTV. “And here it is.”
The bottle traveled up the Bay of Fundy to Joggins, and Patterson has a theory about why it took so long to be found.
He found the bottle at a spot that used to be a sandbar, which had been completely washed out. The bottle may have spent years buried in the sand.
Patterson will mail the bottle back to Daly, who is looking forward to its return.
“I’m excited to see it,” she said, adding that her kids are excited by the story, too.
With a report from CTV Atlantic’s Dan MacIntosh
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At Christmas, surprises usually come wrapped in glittery paper and tied up with bows. But for one Nova Scotia man, a surprise arrived in the form of a message in a bottle that washed ashore after 29 years.
Wayne Patterson does a lot of beach combing near his home in Joggins, N.S. A couple of weeks ago, he noticed a clear plastic bottle with bits of paper inside.
“I noticed this with the notes in it,” Patterson told CTV Atlantic, holding the bottle and demonstrating where he had to cut open the side to remove the notes.
“I was quite surprised that they were from three little girls.”
The notes asked that whoever found the bottle contact the girls who sent it. The phone numbers and addresses were from Saint John, N.B.
Patterson called one of the numbers, which still belongs to the parents of one of the girls. Michelle Daly was actually at her parents’ home when Patterson’s call came through.
Daly, a 37-year-old mother of two, says that “never in a million years” would she have expected the bottle to be found.
She was nine years old when she and two friends threw the bottle in the water near the Digby ferry in Saint John.
“We were just playing around and decided to write a note and see what would happen,” Daly told CTV. “And here it is.”
The bottle traveled up the Bay of Fundy to Joggins, and Patterson has a theory about why it took so long to be found.
He found the bottle at a spot that used to be a sandbar, which had been completely washed out. The bottle may have spent years buried in the sand.
Patterson will mail the bottle back to Daly, who is looking forward to its return.
“I’m excited to see it,” she said, adding that her kids are excited by the story, too.
With a report from CTV Atlantic’s Dan MacIntosh
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