8-Year-Old Boy Finds Message in a Bottle From 25 Years Ago and Tracks Down Its Sender A handwritten message in a bottle, tossed to sea by a 14-year-old Quebec girl, took a quarter century to travel nearly 60 miles to Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. There, it was found by an 8-year-old boy who was delighted by the earnest message. He wrote back. Eight-year-old Nyima Mitchell found the glass bottle under a pine tree in his Chéticamp back yard while playing with friends and his brother, Mila, in October 2020. (Courtesy of Kelly Mitchell) “Nyima thought it was garbage and he picked it up to clean up our land,” the boys’ father, Kelly Mitchell, told The Epoch Times. “They usually play ‘Tom and Huck,’ which would have been great for a message in a bottle find, but [they] had friends over that day and were just climbing trees.”