This isn't the actual bottle, but you get the idea. Getty In November 2018, a Canadian teenager named Lucas MacDonald wrote his name and phone number on a note while he was on his dad’s tuna-fishing boat off of Prince Edward Island, about 120 miles north of Halifax, Nova Scotia. He tucked the message inside a bottle and tossed it into the water, then forgot about it and went about his life. Two and a half years later, on May 7, Dianne Jurek was visiting Matagorda Beach—a ninety-minute drive from her home in Fresno, south of Houston—when, according to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, she found a long glass object poking out of the sand. She retrieved the bottle, unearthed MacDonald’s note, and decided to send him a text to let him know that his bottle had made the journey from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to the Gulf of Mexico—a trip that would’ve meant traversing at least 2,800 miles on land.