UK boy's message in a bottle reaches Perth

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UK boy's message in a bottle reaches Perth

By Corey Stephenson

A nine-year-old schoolboy in the UK has a made a new friend in WA after his message in a bottle washed up on a Perth beach.

Cade Scott from Sunderland, north-east England, placed a Doctor Who postcard into an old wine bottle and let it loose in the North Sea in August 2011.

Cade Scott set his message in a bottle off the north east coast of England in August 2011.

Cade Scott set his message in a bottle off the north east coast of England in August 2011.Credit: Sunderland Echo

After travelling 15,000 kilometres in 16 months it was discovered by Matthew Elam from Mosman Park as he celebrated Christmas at the beach.

Matthew, 25, sent the Doctor Who postcard back to Cade with a WA postcard, writing: "Thanks for your postcard. I found it whilst celebrating Christmas on the beach here in Perth, Western Australia, Happy New Year."

The UK schoolboy's and dad Terry Scott, 42, told the Sunderland Echo he had first tried to send the bottle out to sea in Seaburn, but it washed back on shore after travelling only a mere few metres.

They then took a trip to Roker Harbour determined to succeed second time round.

"We tried to send off the bottle at Seaburn but it kept washing up, so we drove up to Roker and tried again. It is phenomenal. You wonder where that bottle has been and what it has seen. It is a once-in-a-life-time thing. The fact it even got out of the English Channel was impressive enough."

Cade has already taken the returned postcard and message from Australia into school to impress his mates.

He said: "I had got some Doctor Who postcards in a magazine and decided to use one of them to put in the bottle.

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"I was just amazed it had gone so far. I thought it had sunk in the North Sea."

Last year a message in a bottle travelled from Bournemouth on the UK's south coast to Largs Bay in South Australia.

Jasmine Hudson had dropped her bottle into the English Channel hoping it would find its way to her aunt who lives in Guernsey.

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