Little girl shocked as message in bottle travels 10,000 miles

A four-year-old girl from Tamworth was shocked to receive a reply all the way from Australia after throwing a message in a bottle into the sea.

Jasmine Hudson was on a family holiday in Bournemouth when she threw the bottle from the pier on the 10th April 2012.

Jasmine received a kit from her grandparents, and wrote a message including her name, age, address and where she had thrown the bottle into the sea.

She hoped it would reach her Aunt Jodie who lives in Guernsey, but four months later she received a letter in the post from a woman who found the message in a bottle as she walked along Largs Bay Beach, South Australia.

The woman who found the message was a grandmother called Barbara Richards who was taking a stroll along the beach with her brother.

She wrote to Jasmine to tell her she had found her message.

Jasmine and her Mum Louise had forgotten about the message in a bottle, until they were surprised by the letter in the post:

Jasmine is now writing a special letter back to Barbara and they are planning to talk on Skype to one another.

Jasmine says that she plans to send another message in a bottle soon and would quite like a reply from Brazil this time.