Some ideas always sound good and look good on paper. However, when it comes to implementation of that idea, it often becomes problematic. And that is the case with my Message In A Bottle task.
My plan was to send a message in a bottle off the coast of Cape Cod when I visited my brother and sister in October. However, I went on a whale watch adventure out of Gloucester, Massachusetts. Although I was already thinking about the consequences of launching a bottle into the ocean, this event changed my position...During the whale watch trip we saw humpback and fin whales. In addition we saw a rare Northern Right Whale of which there are only 400 in the world! They are sometimes found in New England waters in the fall. According to the captain this was an unbelievably rare sighting. They had to stay at least 500ft from the whale and could not stay viewing it for long, so we only saw the back cresting the water two or thee times. The crew was very excited, the passengers not so much! In addition the crew had stated how important it was not to throw anything overboard (of course not!) This got me thinking, that although it seems very romantic to send a message in a bottle whether it's a poem, some philosophical tid bit (or whatever I was going to write or draw as the message), it is simply polluting the ocean! As a result, I decided to scrap this task in favor of the environment.
