Albany – 19 April 2012
Albany – 19 April 2012
Albany – 19 April 2012
Eden – 30 September 2012
Eden – 30 September 2012
Themes Connected to my Bottle Story
1) The push and pull factors of immigration . Why did immigrants come to Australia ?
2) Shipping routes to Australia
3) Ships that brought immigrants to Australia e.g. Shaw Savill & Albion Company Limited
4) Provisions passengers had on board – this was written on the ticket
5) The ticket
6) Ocean currents
7) Grannie’s log kept a daily record of latitude /longitude, the weather conditions and the distance travelled.
8) I have some household and personal items my Grannie brought with her 100 years ago.
9) Family history
10) Adventure
11) The people whom I met, or had contact with, in preparation for my journeys, and in the actual execution of these journeys.
12) The coincidences in my journey……
13) The preparation of the bottles in the same manner as Mark ( in Albany) had prepared his bottle ,when circumnavigating Cape Horn.
14) My journey to both Albany, Western Australia and Eden, NSW did not happen without substantial research ……..
Anne Field
Youtube Link (July 16 2013): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lruuq_n8XZ0&t=111s
Article:
MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE
COFFEE NEWS REMUERA / NEWMARKET EDITION, AUCKLAND NEW ZEALAND April 23,2018 ( courtesy of my girlfriend, Anne Brogden who found this newsletter in an Auckland coffee shop.)
A man in Zandvoot in the Netherlands likes to receive communication from others in an old fashioned way by messages in bottles. Wim Kruiswijk found his first message in a bottle on the beach near his home in 1983. He wrote to the return address, and to his surprise, the message writer replied to his letter. This began the hobby of looking for messages in bottles.
He has collected over 1,200 throughout the years. When he first began his collection, Kruiswijk used to find 50 bottles a year. Since the year 2000, that number has begun to wane to about 20 or 30 bottles a year. He suspects that the Internet has something to do with that decrease.
