Overview

• Cara Melia released her mother’s ashes in a glass bottle at Skegness Beach in England with a note reading “This is my mum. Throw her back in – she’s travelling the world.”
• Beach visitors found the bottle just 12 hours later on the same stretch of sand and shared images and video of the discovery on Facebook.
• The finder honored Melia’s request by tossing the ashes back into the North Sea, prompting thousands of emotional reactions online.
• Wendy Chadwick, a 51-year-old single mother of five, died in February from an undiagnosed heart condition and never fulfilled her dream to travel abroad.
• With her mother’s ashes now drifting free, Melia hopes they will reach more distant shores such as Spain or Barbados to complete the journey.