A Vietnamese man praying for refugee status in Australia has had his message in a bottle received.
A clear, cone-shaped bottle with the words “I am a Cat” washed up on Wollongong’s North Beach, outside Stuart Park.
In the palm-sized bottle are six carefully rolled pieces of paper with fine metal rings closing them into tiny scrolls.
The glass bottle was spotted by skydiver Fabio Augusto Baldissera who saw it glistening in the water, while working at Skydive Australia Wollongong.
The notes written in Vietnamese were undecipherable to the English and Portuguese-speaker, who decided to have them translated at a local Vietnamese restaurant.
The words are wishes for a happy life for a refugee family, who Fabio thinks might live in Sydney.
There are no dates on the message, nor names.
Fabio keeps the message-filled bottle in his lounge room, and hopes the writer of the notes has had his wishes granted.
Yoga teacher, skydiver, martial artist and journalist. Yoga keeps her centred and reinforces her core belief that the greatest gift to each of us is ourselves. When Dawn isn’t teaching yoga, she works as a skydive camerawoman, grapples with her mates at Gracie Barra Shellharbour, and does media and promotions for stuff she loves.
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