Facebook post helps track down Anita and Brad, who had been dating for a year at time of message and wed in 2016
In September 2012, a young couple capped a romantic date in Newfoundland, on Canada’s eastern tip, by putting a message in a bottle and dropping it into the Atlantic.
“Anita and Brad’s day trip to Bell Island. Today, we enjoyed dinner, this bottle of wine and each other, at the edge of the island,” it said. It asked whomever might find the message to “please call us”, followed by a scribbled number.
Thirteen years later and 2,000 miles away, another couple, Kate and John Gay, found the bottle at Scraggane Bay in County Kerry, on Ireland’s western tip. They read the note, toasted Anita and Brad and wondered: were they still together?
They rang the number but there was no answer. So on Monday night they posted a message on the Facebook page of Maharees Heritage and Conservation, an environmental group that had organised the bay cleanup that led to the bottle’s discovery, and waited.
