Messages in the bottles

Finding a bottle floating in the sea, pulling it up and finding a message inside: is a very romantic thing, transporting us to adventures and tragedies that someone wanted to leave to the chance of the waves and currents, to have someone completely unknown read their story.

In January 2018, Tonya Illman and her husband Kim were walking on the beach at Wedge Island, near Perth, Western Australia. The currents had washed a lot of trash onto the sand, and Tonya picked up a plastic bag to dump all the stuff that was ruining their walk. At one point she picked up a glass bottle which appeared…