Woman threw a message in a bottle from Scotland in the sea. 25 tears later, this happened
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Joanna Buchan was just 8 years old when she threw the bottle into the sea from Scotland.
A 34-year-old woman from Scotland, now living in New Wales, Australia, was in for a treat when she came to know about a thing she did as a child. A doctor by profession, Joanna Buchan was an 8-year-old when she went on a school trip. She wrote a message on a piece of paper and threw it in the ocean. Little did she know that the bottle would be discovered 25 years later far away along the shores of Norway!
The bottle was found by 37-year-old Elena Andreassen Haga and her son Eliah in Gasvaer, northern Norway, 800 miles (approx 1280Km) away from where Joanna left it. Elena reached out to Joanna on Facebook and told her about the discovery.
According to a report by DailyMail, Elena found the bottle in 2020 and took some time to track down Joanna on social media.
"We were out with a small boat just looking around the area, picking some berries and looking for trash to take care of. We found the bottle, and immediately saw there was something inside. I was very excited, you never know - is it just from another small island in the area, or what could be inside. My son did not understand why this was so exciting. I sent Joanna a message the same day we found the bottle, and forgot about it after that holiday. And suddenly, late one evening here in Norway, my Messenger app notified me she had seen the message," Elena told DailyMail.
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Joanna was surprised and overjoyed to discover that her bottle had been found. "I vaguely remember doing a message in a bottle at Peterhead Central School that we sent off Peterhead in 1996. When I read it I just died laughing. There's some really lovely lines in there, like what was important to me at the time. I wish I could tell my teachers of the time, whose idea it would have been. It's clearly done its time in the North Sea," she told DailyMail.
