Captain finds message in bottle that has ties to Brunswick beaches
Date Posted: March 19, 2019
Source: WWAY

It’s not something you find every day, a message in a bottle. A boat crew cleaning up after Hurricane Florence found one on Friday, and the boat’s captain is committed to returning the letter to its author.

Captain Matt Littleton and his crew never expected to find the bottle. They were out cleaning up our waterways when they came across a Duplin wine bottle, with a note inside.

"I had a nice little childish moment for a little bit,” Littleton said. “You live here your whole life and you hear the stories about messages in a bottle but then you actually run across one, a story coming to life. It was fun.”

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