I'm amazed by how many people *do* send messages in bottles--though really I shouldn't be. I think lots of us love leaving message for the world to find, and bottles are natural message holders.

I really hope I can find some stories from outside the anglophone world. So far there's just one at the messages-in-bottles page--a message in a bottle written in devanagari script.

I think people put prayers or messages of thanks in bottles too. I remember when I successfully transferred colleges, I tied a message of thanks to a tree--same idea.