Message in a Bottle - Biker Bob

[LovelyLadyLux]

Somewhat touching story of a message in a bottle of Biker Bob and his final life journey.

http://www.cheknews.ca/145816-145816/

(Cut and paste this URL)

[Kiya]

Wow! that's amazing

[Jayway]

The rest of the news items were very interesting.

[LovelyLadyLux]

Update to the Biker Bob saga (the URL is at the bottom):

The mysterious discovery of a man’s ashes and a message in a bottle that CHEK News shared with you Thursday has touched many hearts on Vancouver Island. But one Nanaimo woman more than any other, because “Biker Bob” was her beloved husband. When a message in a bottle holding “Biker Bob’s” ashes washed up on Sooke’s China Beach, Maudine Previl almost fell over in her chair.

“I cried, I cried. I recorded it six times,” says the Nanaimo woman.

Because Biker Bob is her late husband, Bob Nisbet and the last time she saw the bottle was last November when she tossed it and this message off Nanaimo’s Jack Point, Bob’s favourite hiking spot.

“I threw that bottle in there so that he could travel and that no one could keep him down,” says Previl.

The avid outdoorsman, was a paddler and a biker. A man who was happiest with the wind at his back and open spaces around him.

“He just loved the freedom of it. He thought he should have been born 100 years ago and rode a horse carrying a six gun,” she says.

She calls him the love of her life. “He was the best person,” says Previl.

He died on his beloved Harley when the vibrant 71-year-old set out on the first ride of the season August 6th of 2013 and was fatally hit by a car in a Saanich intersection.

She wanted his free spirit to continue, so she took Bob’s ashes, a note and bottle to his favourite spot overlooking the ocean and Nanaimo, and tried over and over to throw the bottle to sea. With Teeka the dog repeatedly bringing it back.

“Well that was his dog,” says Previl.

Before Biker Bob’s new journey began. Turning up in front of a curious Justun Bevis not far away a few days later.

“I was just appreciative of what I’d found. Wanted him to go off and keep sailing,” says the Nanaimo man.

Then again this past weekend, he was found by this Victoria couple at China Beach near Sooke.

“It’s gorgeous it really is,” says Previl.

Continuing a journey as free as Biker Bob could have ever asked for, in life. Years now after his death.

http://www.cheknews.ca/146243-146243/