On April 19, 2012 I put a bottle into the Southern Ocean, south of West Cape Howe ,the most southerly point in Western Australia. This was to commemorate 100 years to the day since my Scottish Grannie sailed by on her way to Sydney to get married . She married the day after her arrival , a lady of precise timing.(my grandfather had arrived 3 years before her )
I have my Grannie’s 100 ticket and log, which is a wonderful historic record to have . I had decided to think outside the square to do something different to honour my Grannie’s brave journey 100 years ago . Hence my adventure developed from my initial idea……
My bottle washed back in at Bremer Bay, Western Australia after being at sea for approximately 32 days. It was found as flotsam on the beach by a Perth fisherman , and was returned to me by the fisherman’s wife, in Perth, in late July 2012.
I then decided to recommit it, and had to decide where this would be . I spoke to fishermen who fished in Bass Strait, and also contacted an oceanographer at CSIRO in Hobart , Tasmania . Eden was the consensus in order to get the East Australian current. Much research went into my bottle overboard adventure……
I decided to recommit Grannie’s bottle out of Eden ,Southern NSW, on the first anniversary of the passing of my late partner , Harold(Archie)Ward . I also put a bottle out to acknowledge Harold , my great grandfather , William Field who came from Wakefield , Yorkshire along with my Cavalier King Charles Spaniel , William whom I had named after my great grandfather.
Harold was a good football player in Yorkshire . I returned in late May 2013, to attend the 50 year celebration of his team winning the West Riding County FA Challenge Cup . The team ‘s exploits are recorded in “Coal , Goals and Ashes” by Professor Dave Waddington of Sheffield Hallam University .
Grannie’s bottle, and my Yorkshire bottle, were put out ten minutes apart and some distance from each other. I believe that I recorded latitude and longitude of the bottle’s entry into the Pacific Ocean .
The Yorkshire bottle was found on March 30 ,2015 on the beach at Yeppoon near Rockhampton , Capricorn Coast ,Queensland after a 2.5 year journey at sea. I contacted the oceanographer at the CSIRO in Hobart, who replied to me in an email “ that it is likely that the bottle reached almost the top of the North Island of New Zealand before the South East Trade winds pushed it back to Queensland. “
My Yorkshire bottle has had one great journey. Grannie’s bottle is still out bobbing along, safely I hope . Grannie , I suspect , does not want to take the limelight off the other bottle being found ……
I will fly to Rockhampton later this year to meet the finder of my bottle, Jason and his niece Tiah. The story was written up in the Capricorn Coast Rockhampton Morning Bulletin Wednesday April 8, 2015 under the heading Surprise Message in a Bottle found on the Capricorn Coast . This article also included my You Tube , which a friend, Jeanette made for me . The You Tube, which runs for 8 minutes , is called Anne’s Adventure and details the story of my 2 bottles .
My website annefield.net.au has a number of articles on it of my Bottle Overboard Adventure- in the Speeches and Blog Section .
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Mark , the around the world sailor, who took me out to sea from Albany, Western Australia prepared Grannie’s bottle, in the same manner as he did his bottle,when circumnavigating Cape Horn in approximately 2007 . Mark got his bottle back 3 years later, when it washed on to a beach south of Mt Gambier , South Australia . It was found on a beach in an area in which he learned to sail on as a young man ,and was found by an elderly man, who knew his Aunt in the nearby town …… My girlfriend, Maree and I prepared my Yorkshire bottle in Eden the night before I went to sea.
This story has been an amazing adventure . I have acknowledged my family history –and United Kingdom connections, met wonderful people along the way , and loved being out on the ocean . I acknowledge that my journeys out to sea were not for the faint hearted ….
A POSSSIBLE STORY – APRIL 13 2015 FROM KOGARAH , SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
Anne Field
Kogarah
Sydney
Australia
