. >> amazement from a group of hikers from townsville, australia friday. moments after opening up a message in a bottle. >> it's like every childhood sort of fantasy, fairy tale sort of thing. you send a message away and someone actually reads it. >> the townsville hike and explorer group found the bottle while on a beach cleanup, so here's the note that geoff found in the bottle. >> we opened it up. it was a little bit difficult to open and it was a note, and i read it out to the group. and dear reader, we wrote this note because we heard so many stories about doing this. >> the note went to on say that the writers were leaving their resort in fiji at 5:00, and to please write back to their sunnyvale address. it was signed in july of 2016 by savannah kate and janis, but there was no last name. the group, hoping to connect with the three ladies, discovered that they no longer lived at that sunnyvale address, but the discovery of the bottle made local headlines in australia, eventually getting the attention of the messengers behind that message in a bottle.

. >> amazement from a group of hikers from townsville, australia friday. after opening up a message in a bottle. >> it's like every childhood sort of fantasy, fairy tale sort of thing. you send a message away and someone actually reads it. >> the townsville hike and explorer group found the bottle while on a beach cleanup, so here's the note that geoff found in the bottle. >> we opened it up. it was a little bit difficult to open and it was a note, and i read it out to the group. and dear reader, we wrote this note because we heard so many stories about doing this. >> the note went to on say that the writers were leaving their resort in fiji at 5:00, and to please write back to their sunnyvale address. it was signed in july of 2016 by savannah kate and janis, but there was no last name. the group, hoping to connect with the three ladies, discovered that they no longer lived at that sunnyvale address, but the discovery of the bottle made local headlines in australia, eventually getting the attention of the messengers behind that message in a bottle. >> we h

this group of hikers found that bottle along the shore of townsville off the east coast of australia.e was dated back july 2016, signed by savannah, kate and janis from sunnyvale, california. the three friends dropped the bottle in the ocean while vacationing in fiji, but those australian hikers couldn't locate the women, so our investigative team stepped in and found them. it kind of felt like almost spiritual, like the way that it survived eight years and was still like legible and my hair tie was still on the note. it's really impressive. and they are all now hoping to meet in person. that is so cool. all right. the curtain came down at the oakland coliseum as the a's played their final home game, and 49ers quarterback brock purdy may be getting one of his weapons bacfor the game memorable and moving day between the tears and excitement of the last home game at oakland coliseum, there was still a ball game to be played. yeah, you know, it happened, but it's still so hard to comprehend. final time this season, the a's took to the last season world series champs, the texas rangers. m

that's what a group of hikers found in townsville, australia, during a beach cleanup. dear reader, we wrote this note because we heard so many stories about doing this. a note dated july 2016, tossed in the ocean in evy, fiji, by three american girls on their last day of vacation. it included a return address, yorktown drive, sunnyvale, california. california wow. savannah kate and janis. the hikers launched an international search for the authors. she looked up the address in california and sunnyvale, and it turned out that the home had actually sold back in 2018. so we hit a brick wall there, but we picked up the search on our own and located the three close friends. savannah turns out to be savannah greene. i was in class, or i was just getting out of class and i was just on my phone. and then i saw the email from janis, and i texted like five different people because i was so like, i was like, oh my god, this is crazy. especially because they found it all the way in australia. this picture of savannah from eight years ago shows her holding the bottle before they dr

this group of hikers found the bottle along the shore in townsville, australia. the note was dated july 2016, signed by savannah kate and janice from sunnyvale, california. the three women dropped the bottle in the ocean while vacationing in fiji. the australian hikers immediately started searching for the authors of the note, but they actually got stuck when they found the sunnyvale home reference in the note had been sold, but our investigative unit picked up the search and located the three women who sent the message in a bottle. it kind of felt like almost spiritual, like the way that it survived eight years and was still, like legible. and my hair tie was still on the note. so cool. wow. savannah green says that she had forgotten all about that bottle until they went back to fiji. this august. wondered what happened to it, and they're now hoping to meet the australian hikers in person. you can watch hilda's full story on our website, nbcbayarea.com. a public service announcement. 22 years ago, my wife and i threw a message in a bottle off. okay. portugal. ok

well, earlier this week, the group townsville hike and explore, located in queensland, posted on facebook that they were collecting trash when they made the discovery. the note refers to a group of three named savannah, kate and janis, who wrote that they were departing fiji and were inspired by similar stories of messages found in bottles. they also encourage whoever discovered the bottle to write them in sunnyvale. the hikers posted yesterday they were able to connect with janis, one of the notes authors. isn't that cool? that is cool. and they probably had to first have a lesson on why do you send a message on paper? oh, i thought you were going to say about littering. oh future investment. i think they did. yeah. i was going to say it took a really long time for it to get to australia. and then they instagram followed each other and they talked within seconds after messaging. yeah all right. well it is. we've been talking about it all morning. the a's final game. yes. today i know a lot of fans emotional, possibly teary, but yeah, but yeah sun's going to be out. it's going to be a rea