Two Wexford cousins discovered a message in a bottle that had travelled from Massachusetts in the United States. The bottle was tossed into the Atlantic Ocean in July 2014 and was found on Cullenstown Strand by teenagers Cian O’Grady (15) and Tiarnan O’Grady (15). The cousins came across the 18-month-old message in the wake of Storm Frank.
The message reads as follows:
Hi my name is Ken Baker (46yrs). I live in Scituate MA with my wife Suzanne and kids Jenna (18) and Ryan (15). We started tossing messages in bottles into the ocean in Dec. 2012. This is bottle #79. 21 of them have been found so far. Some have been found in Humarock Beach (Scituate), others made it to Long Island NY. One made it to Blaine (Minnesota) but that’s another story. Most of them (about 1/2) end up on the outer cape. My kids and their friends add notes at times but not this time, sorry. I will toss this one off of the end of the breakwater at the mouth of Scituate Harbour. The wind is out of the SW. Hopefully it will go further than Humarock. We like hearing back from the bottles. Let us know where and how you found bottle #79. Talk to you soon.
Cian’s father responded to the email address that Ken Baker had included in the bottle, and Baker expressed admiration for Cullenstown and County Wexford after receiving photographs of the area.
Suzanne Baker’s maiden name is Grady, meaning that her husband’s message travelled 3,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean before two teenagers with the surname O’Grady discovered it.