March 18 (UPI) —<\/span> A visitor to a British beach found a message in a bottle that had been launched from the Bahamas by a Canadian girl 21 years earlier.<\/p>\n Crispin Benton said he was taking a post-work walk on Castle Beach in Falmouth, England, when he spotted a bottle on the tide line.\n<\/p>\n<\/article>\n “It was hide tide, so it was likely it had freshly washed in. I picked it up, then I thought ‘Oh my goodness, there’s a message in there’ and got a bit excited,” Benton told The Falmouth Packet.<\/p>\n A student photographer visiting the same beach snapped a photo of Benton and read the note with him.<\/p>\n The letter, dated June 21, 2001, was authored by a 6-year-old Canadian girl named Anna who was visiting the Bahamas.<\/p>\n “Please don’t pollute. Thank you,” Anna wrote.<\/p>\n Anna included a mailing address and asked for the finder to write her a letter, but Benton said a search online revealed the address has since been converted into an industrial estate.<\/p>\n Benton said he is now hoping Anna will find out about the bottle’s discovery and get in contact.<\/p>\n “It’s just one of those things you don’t think will ever happen, to find a message in a bottle. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime experience, and to think someone wrote that 20-odd years ago. What’s she doing now?” he said.\n<\/p>\n A couple taking a walk on Magheraroarty beach, on the Dooey Peninsula in Ireland’s County Donegal, made a similar discovery in January.<\/p>\n Rita Simmonds and Ciaran Marronn found a message in a bottle that turned out to have been authored by an 11-year-old girl named Sasha and was launched from Ocean City, Md., in 2019.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Crispin Benton found a message in a bottle on Castle Beach in Falmouth, England, that had been launched from the Bahamas in 2001. The letter inside was authored by a 6-year-old Canadian girl named Anna. Photo by Marvinton\/Pixabay.com March 18 (UPI) — A visitor to a British beach found a message in a bottle that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1026304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1026303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n<\/div>\nCrispin Benton found a message in a bottle on Castle Beach in Falmouth, England, that had been launched from the Bahamas in 2001. The letter inside was authored by a 6-year-old Canadian girl named Anna. Photo by Marvinton\/Pixabay.com<\/div>\n\n