One of my life goals is to release a message in a bottle that is found at least 1,000 miles from its place of release. Today, I released a stoppered glass salsa bottle that I prepared from home in California and that I had taken with me to Maui, Hawaii. From Quicksilver, the boat we took out on a snorkeling trip to Molokini, I threw out the bottle off the top of two levels, just off the coast of Big Beach, Kanahena.
My original goal was to release the bottle on Maui’s eastern end, past the Road to Hana, but I unfortunately forgot the bottle back in our room. I felt that the release from Quicksilver was the next best choice.
For those most interested, the exact time and position of release was N20 36.866 W156 27.083 on October 2, 2004, at 2:19 p.m.
Author’s Note: Yes, I realize this blog entry is dated September 30, but due to the screwup of releasing the bottle at the wrong location on the wrong day, and the fact that the month changed between the day of intended release and the day of actual release, and the preprinted note inserted into the bottle referenced a URL pointing to this blog that required an entry with a date in September, I had no choice but to pre-date this entry.
I chose the time and location primarily to take advantage of the waning high tide, and the southernmost spot that I reached in the ocean at the southern end of Maui to try to catch the currents that sweep between Hawaii and Maui — hoping, of course, to have the bottle avoid the nearby rocky beaches and on instead to Australasia or the American mainlands.
If you reached this website because of the information contained within the note in the bottle and you are here to leave me a comment about when and where you found the bottle, please provide as much information as possible. Don’t forget to mention the code word mentioned in bold on the note to separate your comments from the people that may attempt to fake the find. Thank you!
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