Photo: CTV

A group out canoeing made an unusual find in Victoria's inner harbour.

Now, they plan to honour the message they found in a bottle.

Tucked inside, they found a note reading: “If you find this bottle, please throw it back in the water, my wish is to see the world,” Russell Henry told CTV.

He's one of six members of the Soggy Beavers canoe team.

The bottle also contains what appear to be cremated human ashes, so the group nicknamed the bottle and its contents "Ash."

"There's really no way he's going to see much of the world (in the harbour),” Henry said.

So they decided to bring the bottle when they paddle 1,200 kilometres from Port Townsend, Wash., to Ketchikan, Alaska, in June.

The group plans to drop the bottle far enough north in the Pacific Ocean that currents take it all the way to Asia.

– with files from CTV Vancouver