Jimi’s spending time in a bottle

A couple visiting Bermuda on their 25th anniversary found a bottle on the beach with a man’s ashes and a message inside.

Roseanne and Steven Dornan from Canada were at John Smith’s Bay on Monday when they spotted the bottle on the beach.

Mrs Dornan said: “The message said ‘Hi, my name is Jimi and I’m on my extended vacation. Please look on Facebook for me and notify my wife for me. Please release me back in the water so that I can continue my journey’.”

Inside the bottle along with the message were ashes, believed to be Jimi’s. The number 25 was also on the message, leading the Dornan’s to believe this bottle was number 25.

Mrs Dornan said they went onto Facebook and found the group where they posted a message.

But, she still has many questions about Jimi.

“Did they talk about this before he died? Did he have children? How many bottles are there? Who is this Jimi?”

Mrs Dornan also said she believes the bottle was released from Cuba because of the information on it.

“It said when he got released, he would let us get a shot of Tequila and wish him well on his way. 

“It says to release him back into the water so that he can continue his journey.”

The Dornan’s plan to put the bottle back in the water before they leave the island.

In the about section on Jimi’s Facebook page, it says:

Release me at the Matanzas to begin my extended vacation,

I intend to float North to Hempstead Harbor, from there the winds will take me up to London and over to Spain, from Spain the South winds will pick me up and carry me to the islands, from there I will catch a North wind to bring me back to the tip of Cuba then the North winds will return me to the islands.

So whenever you come down to the beach, bring that bottle of Tequila and let’s have a shot together, you can say hello and goodbye, for I am on my extended vacation and I am not staying anywhere long. I am a travelling man now!

Jimi

August 21st, 2012