A message finds its way...

University of Michigan senior Cassidy Beach was studying abroad on the island of South Caicos in the West Indies, when she stumbled upon a message in a bottle. 

After running back to join her classmates and break open the bottle, she and the others were shocked to find a letter in perfect condition inside, dated September 30, 2004.

✍️ Meeting the author... The letter was signed by Nantucket fisherman Pennel Ames.

• As it turns out, the retired fisherman had a bit of a thing for throwing letters into the ocean – he and his wife released hundreds of messages in bottles over a six-year stretch in the early 2000s. Their letters have since been found all over the world.

🌍 It's a small world... Cassidy reached out to Pennel after finding the letter back in April, and it turned out both of them would be on the East Coast this summer. They met up in Nantucket last week to swap travel stories and discuss the adventures of Pennel's other letters.