Treasure Hunters

Updated October 1 2012 - 4:10pm, first published September 28 2012 - 11:30pm
Tankengine, Eynowd (with Tiger-Monkey on his shoulders), Dvixen and Mtrax on the hunt for a geocache in Weston Park
Tankengine, Eynowd (with Tiger-Monkey on his shoulders), Dvixen and Mtrax on the hunt for a geocache in Weston Park
The boulder-like cache in Lyndsay Pryor Arboretum.
The boulder-like cache in Lyndsay Pryor Arboretum.

It has to be one of the more unusual emails to have landed in my inbox. ''Tim, while walking around Lake Burley Griffin near the Lindsay Pryor National Arboretum (opposite the Governor-General's residence) yesterday we came across some sort of time capsule. It was underneath a small boulder near the water's edge and was probably washed down from a Queanbeyan park during the floods earlier in the year. It's the only boulder along that stretch of shoreline so you can't miss it. I didn't want to touch it but thought you should investigate!'' demanded the semi-anonymous missive from Jenny (no last name given) of Ainslie.

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