In June 2003, Tracy and Len Eyre were newly engaged and walking blissfully along one of the many rocky beaches of B.C.’s Haida Gwaii archipelago when Len noticed something on the shore.
It was a brown glass bottle with a plastic lid on it, around the size of a peanut butter jar.
Inside were a few letters with Japanese text neatly written on lined paper surrounded by pictures of flowers, fruit and cartoon characters.
“My first thought was that, ‘Oh, this is probably somebody that lives about three or four miles down the beach [that] threw this in the water,’” Len said, recalling the initial discovery.
“It was a bit of a shock to open it up and see that everything was dry and intact and that it all was in Japanese characters … ‘Wow, we actually found something really quite, quite exciting here.’”
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