00:00.
00:27They were picking up rubbish.
00:28Peter was tying some rubbish on the front of the quad bike
00:30to take back to the bins.
00:31And Felicity saw a bottle floating around in the shoreline
00:36and she picked it up and said,
00:37oh, Dad, this bottle's pretty cool.
00:39It's very thick glass and it's got messages in it.
00:42We'd better take it home.
00:44That'll be what, mantle?
00:46Yeah.
00:47On the windowsill.
00:49Oh, wow, that's fantastic.
00:51So when we got the bottle home,
00:53it had this little tiny cork in it, which has survived.
00:57It must have been tucked up in the sand dunes now, we believe,
01:00because there was no growth on the bottle from the ocean
01:03and also the words were protected.
01:06So when we got it home,
01:07I thought we would put a hole in the cork
01:10and then turn it upside down so that we could drain the water out.
01:13But luckily, when I put the skewer very carefully into the cork,
01:17the whole cork came out.
01:18So then we sat it on the windowsill for a couple of days to dry a bit
01:22and I could see one of the letters was dry enough for me to attempt to get it out,
01:26never dreaming that we'd be able to read words.
01:29And so I stuck a pair of surgical tweezers down inside and twisted
01:33and twisted and twisted until it was thin enough to pull up through the neck.
01:37And then we put the rolled up letter on the windowsill for another day to dry
01:42because it was damp.
01:43And when we opened it up,
01:45we were just...
01:47We could not believe that the writing was so clear from...
01:52So it's very emotional,
02:04but we're also very excited that we found it,
02:07that a local family found it
02:09because we've made it into something really special for the families.
02:13One of the great nephews is coming over to Esperance to meet us
02:18and he was going to pick up his letter in person,
02:21but he's decided that might take a bit long.
02:23So we're going to post it to him.
02:25So that's what you're doing.
02:26So that's how you wanted to keep
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