A message in a bottle dropped in New York harbour in 2013 by an American painter has been found years later, and 5,700kms (3,500 miles) away, on a beach in southwest France ... by a French artist, reports The Guardian.
George Boorujy threw the bottle, containing a drawing of a cormorant and a signed letter into the harbour at Staten Island in October 2013, regional French newspaper Sud Ouest reported.
It washed up two and a half years later on a beach in the Aquitaine region of France where it was found last week by Brigitte Barthelemy, a painter, and her husband Alain who were out walking their dog Elton.
Brigitte was intrigued by the perfectly preserved drawing and the letter congratulating the finders of the bottle and jokingly asking that they did not respond with another letter in a bottle, a “very inefficient” means of communication.