/ 20 January 2006

Message in a bottle arrives in Australia from Britain

A bottle with a message inside thrown in the sea in Britain has turned up in Australia six months later, news reports said on Friday.

Alesha Johnson (4) threw the message-in-a-bottle into Morecambe Bay in the north of the United Kingdom in July.

According to Australia’s ABC Radio, Johnson received a reply earlier this week from a 10-year-old boy in Perth, Western Australia, who had found the bottle in a boatyard on Australia’s eastern seaboard. – Sapa-DPA