Girl Finds Real-Life Message In A Bottle On Florida Beach

(Mix 93-1) It's one of those things that I've always thought about doing, but I'm never in the right place to do it.

Tossing A Message In A Bottle In The Sea

In 1979, The Police wrote a song about this situation and simply called it "Message In A Bottle". The meaning of the song is rather simple - a desire for connection. Even in loneliness, there is hope to be found.

In the case of the song, a castaway sends a message in a bottle to find someone, and in return, they find messages from other castaways.

A 13-year-old Tosses A Message In A Bottle In The Ocean

In 2018, a 13-year-old girl and her brother wrote a simple message and sealed it away in a clear bottle and threw it into the ocean outside of Oahu, Hawaii.

The message had been floating around the globe just following the currents until it washed up in the surf on a beach in Florida.

A Real-Life Message In A Bottle Washes Ashore

A Michigan fifth grader was on vacation recently with her family in Florida, walking along a beach on Anna Maria Island, and found a very interesting treasure in the surf.

While out searching for seashells, like we all do while on a beach vacation, Josie Law spotted a little bottle. Thinking it was trash at first, she picked it up and noticed it contained a note, and quickly took it to her mom to look at.

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After opening the bottle, they discovered a faded handwritten note that read,

Hello, people who found this, you will be happy that you found this. Why, cause you will know me with this number. 808.7xx.xxx7 Date 8-17-2018

Connecting Across Time And Oceans

And with that, she and her mom sent a text to the number and received a message back. Now an adult, the 21-year-old woman in Hawaii confirmed sending the message in the bottle and wished to remain anonymous.

The woman admitted to sending the message when she was 13 and her brother was 8.

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Is It Really Possible? Experts Weigh In

Turns out the message traveled the globe for nearly eight years and traveled 4600 miles before being discovered on a Florida beach.

Chief Meteorologist Bobby Deskins for WTSP-TV tells UPI, that while it seems unlikely that the bottle floated from Hawaii to Florida, it is "technically possible."

It makes you wonder how many other messages are still floating out there, tossed from cruise ships or beaches, waiting to be found.