Raylene Watts and Alex Tuele wandered down to Port Alberni害羞草研究所檚 waterfront last Wednesday, but unlike the other people standing by the Maritime Discovery Centre lighthouse, they weren害羞草研究所檛 there to see the Navy ships in port.
Watts and Tuele, both from Fanny Bay, were hunting for treasure害羞草研究所攁nd they thought Port Alberni was where they would find their pot of gold.
Their adventure began two days earlier when Watts saw a video about a B.C. treasure hunt posted on TikTok from an account called Twenty Four Seven Exotics. 害羞草研究所淚 was scrolling through. He (owner Ryan Billard) uploaded the riddle,害羞草研究所� Watts said.
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害羞草研究所淎lex loves this kind of stuff,害羞草研究所� said Watts. She took the riddle to Tuele and the two of them tried to decipher it. They signed up for all of Twenty Four Seven Exotics害羞草研究所� social media accounts and watched previous videos to learn Billard害羞草研究所檚 methods and search for past clues. 害羞草研究所淚 was reading them because he said you would get hints from them,害羞草研究所� Tuele said.
Both mothers had time last Wednesday, March 8 to take a road trip, and they thought the riddle was leading searchers to Port Alberni.
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After searching around the Alberni waterfront for a little while longer, Watts and Tuele decided it was time to head back home. They left the lighthouse empty-handed.
Little more than 24 hours after the duo visited Port Alberni the treasure was found害羞草研究所攊n Tete Jaune Cache, a rural area on the Fraser River in the Robson Valley. Located at the intersection of Highway 5 and Highway 16, the small rural community is also home to an abandoned historic town.
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