FreeRangeAsparagus
Well-Known Member
Hi folks,
Last week I said “I think my usual spot is running out.” I’m not sure I could have been more wrong if I tried.
Saturday I was just getting into the water when someone told me a girl lost her phone upstream by the railroad bridge. I told myself the bottles will always be here and there’s no downside to doing a good deed. I found her phone but she had already left so I made the best of my situation and dove at the railroad bridge. Lots of old pieces of cars, machinery, signs, other rusty metal. I managed to pull out 6 or so bottles before I decided to head back to my regular spot.
I was planning to only be there for ten or fifteen minutes and sweep the area but when I dove down I found a whole run of bottles just on the surface. 3 bottles wide and probably 20 feet long. We just had a nasty storm rip through and I think that must have blown them down from upstream.
Enough backstory, I know you folks like photos. I present the best day of collecting I’ll ever have: 87 bottles, 46 partials, part of a crock jug, and an iPhone (returned).
Of those, I kept 46. I cleaned almost all of them last night. Here they are before cleaning when I sorted my keepers.
Notably I pulled 15 Coca-Cola’s from 7 different plants, 3 7Up’s, 2 Canada Dry’s, a NuGrape, 3 Pepsi’s (I gave one away to someone who helped me bring up my kayak), a Simpson Spring, a Milton Spring, a Sanford’s Genuine Ginger, and my first medicine bottle in cobalt!
I’ll post photos of individual bottles later in the day. I typed this up on my morning break at work, have to wait til lunch to update!
Last week I said “I think my usual spot is running out.” I’m not sure I could have been more wrong if I tried.
Saturday I was just getting into the water when someone told me a girl lost her phone upstream by the railroad bridge. I told myself the bottles will always be here and there’s no downside to doing a good deed. I found her phone but she had already left so I made the best of my situation and dove at the railroad bridge. Lots of old pieces of cars, machinery, signs, other rusty metal. I managed to pull out 6 or so bottles before I decided to head back to my regular spot.
I was planning to only be there for ten or fifteen minutes and sweep the area but when I dove down I found a whole run of bottles just on the surface. 3 bottles wide and probably 20 feet long. We just had a nasty storm rip through and I think that must have blown them down from upstream.
Enough backstory, I know you folks like photos. I present the best day of collecting I’ll ever have: 87 bottles, 46 partials, part of a crock jug, and an iPhone (returned).
Of those, I kept 46. I cleaned almost all of them last night. Here they are before cleaning when I sorted my keepers.
Notably I pulled 15 Coca-Cola’s from 7 different plants, 3 7Up’s, 2 Canada Dry’s, a NuGrape, 3 Pepsi’s (I gave one away to someone who helped me bring up my kayak), a Simpson Spring, a Milton Spring, a Sanford’s Genuine Ginger, and my first medicine bottle in cobalt!
I’ll post photos of individual bottles later in the day. I typed this up on my morning break at work, have to wait til lunch to update!
