A message in a bottle dropped in the ocean by a young girl traveled halfway around the globe before being discovered and read by a Park ranger.
In December 2006, thirteen year old Alexus Monds and her brother dropped theses bottles into the sea, while holidaying in Atlantic City with family, and promptly forgot all about it. A year later, a park ranger in North Cornwall, England, found and opened the bottle. The lettering had been damaged, but he could faintly make out the girl’s name and age.
He got in touch with the Durham Conventions and Visitor’s Bureau and managed to locate the girl’s school, Durham School of Arts, where Monds is an eighth grade student. The two spoke and the ranger Coltart hopes they’ll “remain friends.”