When Amanda Light, 38, approached Goroke’s tarnished silver time capsule she only had the faintest recollection of what lay inside. Light was one of hundreds of people who gathered expectantly in Goroke Memorial Hall in March to uncover what their younger selves had buried for the future.
This wasn’t the first time the tiny farming town in western Victoria cracked open the old naval mine to steal a glimpse into the past. First opened in 1973, the huge time capsule was unsealed again in 2000, and most recently this year.