I am curious about this because I am, most likely, moving to Florida soon and have always wanted to put a note in a sealed bottle and throw it into the ocean. (but now that I think about it, it seems dangerous to the marine animals)
It doesn’t necessarily have to be in a bottle, but has anyone sent a message attached to a balloon or other methods. If you did, did you receive a message back?
This makes me think of the “Stay Curious” promo on PBS where the woman attaches a disposable camera to a large balloon, with instructions for the finder to take a picture and send the camera back to her.
I sent several messages tied to balloons in years past. I never got a reply. I do know people though who have found balloons with messages and contacted the senders.
Once when I was fishing with my dad (and not catching anything), I became bored so I put a message in a bottle and tossed it overboard. Basically the message read “My name is Gilligan, and I am trapped on a deserted island with six other people. Please send help.” Like I said, I was bored. :rolleyes:
Once, when I was really really bored (and we were planning a trip to the beach), I got ten bottles and put the same message in each one. The message was “This is a message.”
When I was in grade school the entire grade sent messages in balloons. We included our names and the school address. One of the teachers set up a large map of the US in the auditorium. When replies came in the teacher put pins on the map to indicate where the balloons had been found. I can’t remember the details of where they were found but I remember that there were quite a few replies and seemed to come from far away. Of course when I was in grade shool, any car trip over 20 minutes was considered really far away.
When I was 10-ish, I put my name and address on a helium balloon and let it fly from my back yard in Springfield, IL.
A few weeks later I got it sent back to me in an envelope. It was from an insurance agency in some town in Indiana.
I was ecstatic. My balloon had made it to ANOTHER STATE ! Looking back, of course, I realize that for the balloon to merely cross the Indiana border it would only have to travel about 120 miles as the crow flies.
I’ve repeated the experiment several times since then and have never had my balloon returned to me.
! Looking back, of course, I realize that for the balloon to merely cross the Indiana border it would only have to travel about 120 miles as the crow flies.