In my ongoing saga of sending out messages in a bottle, two weeks ago I received the following email:
hi...my name is ali labkem from morocco,south of sahara, i live in tarfaya city 100km north laayoune. i am fisherman....i have find your bottle in the sea near the beach of tarfaya, in a region near 20 km of tarfaya. in the date of 25 july 2010 in sea ( ocean ) we have find your letter in bottle at time 10 pm in the morning.we was in the job, fishing.....we keep your letter; and we are very happy for your friendship, we can be friends forever...the friends of sea.my mobile phone number is : ************* please send me for next soon.
I emailed back to Ali asking what the date on the note was but have not heard back from him.
That now makes a total of eight of my bottles that have been found: 2 in Florida; 3 in the Bahamas; 1 in Bermuda; 1 in the Canary Islands, and now this one in Africa.