Father, son find hidden treasure amid search for seashells

A father and son duo who journeyed from Central Texas to Padre Island National Seashore to gather seashells discovered something more precious instead. Markus Hogue and his son Gabriel , 12, found a message in a bottle that had washed ashore and was peaking out at them from a pile of debris, KXAN News reported. “We were walking and saw a lot of debris and then saw a bottle and were surprised when we picked it up and saw a note in there,” Hogue told the television station.

Border zoo asks for help taking care of endangered spider monkeys smuggled into U.S. The treasure-hunting duo opened the bottle Thursday with the help of expert Katherine Strickland, the maps coordinator for the University of Texas Libraries. They smashed it to find two pieces of paper. One was a map of ocean currents, and the second was a letter in Spanish from two parents who wanted their daughter to know how much they loved her. There was also a phone number.

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