Overview

• Cara Melia placed her mother Wendy Chadwick’s ashes in a bottle off Skegness with a note asking finders to return her to the sea so she could “travel the world.”
• Within 12 hours, beach visitor Kelly Sheridan found the bottle and posted about it on Facebook, where the story quickly went viral.
• Honoring the note, a local boy tossed the bottle back into the North Sea, fulfilling the daughter’s request.
• Wendy Chadwick, who died in February of an undiagnosed heart condition, had never fulfilled her dream of exploring the globe while raising five children.
• With the ashes once again at sea, Melia hopes they will drift farther, potentially reaching shores in Spain, Barbados or beyond.