The Dame's Chocolate Covered Cache Woodside, South Australia, Australia
By Team Ermalesh on 26-Aug-06. Waypoint GCXYWM

One or more of the following has occurred:

No response from the cache owner.
No cache to find or log to sign.
It has been more than 28 days since the last owner note.

As a result I am archiving this cache to keep from continually showing up in search lists and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements.

Should you like to resurrect the cache please create a new cache listing so it can be reviewed as a new cache.

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The cache appears to be in need of owner intervention.

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A shame for this one to be archived but there has been no response to the needs maintenance log and as a previous DNF cacher said the hedge will get damaged as people continue to look in there for it..

Can the CO check that this cache is still in place...it appears to be missing...Thanks

had a good poke around by torchlight.
found a cool little frog (not a chocolate one!)
didn't find a cache, on equipment, signs or hedge.
bit concerned as hedge seemed to be quite damaged right where gps said zero.
Thanks for the challenge Team Ermalesh
will place on the watch list and return asap!

2 attempts with no success

Caching with TT016 who are visiting for the weekend.
This one eluded us today

after raiding the sweet shop on closing time
we searched and searched for this cache.
no luck here today.

Yummy place to hide.

13.12.15 DNF with Niftybridge who had found it before so believe it may have gone

Tftc couldn't sign log as it was jammed and couldn't get it out

Found during a day out in the hills with the sweatwheels.
Tricky little sucker, in more ways than one
Thanks for the cache Team Ermalesh

Found. Thanks for the cache!

Found as we travelled towards the Barossa for a weekend of Square Dancing. Had stopped at these factory outlets and after realising they contained nothing special sat for a minute and realised there was a cache right there. After a brief search had it in hand but no logbook added a small log and signed. TFTC

Found the empty shell no log book

No luck

Another great find while in the area
Thanks for setting up this cache.

SL

found the cache and logged, but there is no cap to the container so it is not hard for the log to be left behind. might pay to have tweezers near by when try to get this cache

Came to the Melba's on recommendation from a mate only to realise we'd been through some 5 years before but weren't caching as much then. A quick grab after selecting a few choc souvenirs and were done before the rain got heavier. Thanks for the cache!

Yayyy found and chocolate purchased too!!!!

Quick find and sign whild indulging TFTC

Is there meant to be a screw cap to keep the log from the elements? The internal thread suggests so but there wasn't one present.

Hunted this one before with no luck, but this time was super easy. It took me longer to get the log out than find it. Log was damp but still managed to sign it. TFTC.

Found on a day when I exceeded the target that I had hoped for. They were packing up when I arrived so I was free to search. The clever hide was found soon enough but there was no log so I supplied some paper.

Visiting from Melbourne for the week and going home tomorrow. Couldn't find it sorry! Will try again next time I'm in Adelaide! Plus it was getting cold and it had been raining on and off today.

Dated: Wednesday 24th June 2015 at 5:25pm

A chilled day, driving around with the company of Mrs Aussie M&M she brings me to this place ... a quick find an a cleaver one ! TFTFun
Ps.. I'll be back

Cunning hide - plucked from almost under the nose of a small child in a heavily muggle infested area. Luckily great stealth was employed. TFTC!

Found with elyse

Took us a while but we eventually found it, awesome hiding place! TFTC!

Came for chocolate and got a sneaky cache too! Had to leave and come back after it was closed to avoid the muggle activity. TFTC

Tftc

on a bus trip excursion from the CMCA rally at Murray Bridge we just knew that there would be a cache not too far from the chocolate factory. We managed to buy chocolate, enjoy a coffee and cheesecake, visit the cheese factory AND grab a smilie.

Great camo!! We found it straight away though :p lucky i guess

I found this cache with my son, Damian, SL, TNLN, TFTC - Alan Victor.

Found a wile ago and just came bak to see it was not log ed opps

TFTC! Ahh the chocolates. After checking all the obvious spots, the geo family helped out and we found it. Nice Camo!

Very clever!! We'd been here with friends who are muggles and looked at the factory and bought some goods but we came back on our own - after closing time to avoid even more muggles! TFTC SL!!

Found it, very clever

Out for a drive with ladyowl and couldn't go past some chocolate and some caching, quick find in between muggles

Found on a hills run with Charmed1184

took a while but a good one tftc

Great tftc

Found taking muggle in laws family around while she staying in SA goes back next week

Finally managed to stop here after first attempting years ago in muggleville - didn't even need help from my bestie, found it in the second place I looked. - love the cache SL Thank you

Very sneaky! Had to stock up on chocolate treats too of course TFTC

Nice little spot, I remember coming here when I was really little! But today chocolate was not on the agenda, but rather a cache. I've become so used to the classic nano or mint tin hides that I didn't think to look where it was. Sneaky! TFTC!

Yummy. Chocolate.

Found it!!!

Tanny 8/6/14

We were more interested in the cheese and pickles next door but had to have a quick look around the chokky shop too. And of course, find the cache.

Today our plans are to cache Victor Harbour with earthlight & the x trailers picking up caches along the way, we didn't quite make it that far as we kept stopping to grab some of the many caches along the way, all told i managed 67 with no DNFs the weather held out for us today with slight drizzle towards the end of the night finally turning into heavier rain, gwen from the x trailers hit her milestone of 5000 finds tonight and it was smiles all round, it was a great day had be all and another trip is already being planned to get to Victor with no distractions on the way (yeah right lol) just like the lollies inside, one is just not like the others : ) a quick find for me today. TFTC

A great hide Team Ermalesh.

If you don't wish your clothes to shrink, then visit this place outside of opening hours. The chocolate and sweets on offer are just too tempting. Certainly worth a visit!

How can you find a good cache like that and not have any chocolate and lollies after it? My Mum, Dad (Silverfoxed) and I went in and it was a wonderland! Stocked up on lollies and chocolate that could probably last the whole year! Thanks for bringing us to this yummy place! TFTC Team Ermalesh!

TFTC...nice one!

Wow... How cool. Well done guys - really enjoyed this one.

Found with Cluelesss 1/5/14
Great little hide. Worth a fav point. TY

1/5/14

Over from perth for the mega and seeing family, found this pretty easily great hide tftc

We felt like we were trespassing as we did this one in the dark of night.
There were a few options to choose from but we eventually came up with the goods in one of the first spots we looked.

Dodgy at night. We were just about to give up when macpacmum made the find. Tftc

Cool looking place but not busy at 8pm on Good Friday. Tricky find in the dark. Lid missing.

Found with Cats&Dragons as darkness approached and we headed towards Mount Barker to arrange some accomodation for the night.

As it was after hours we had no muggle troubles but it did take a bit of searching about GZ before the hide was found.

Thanks!

Having just arrived in Adelaide for the OZ MEGA 2014 Slieschke met me at the airport and was showing me some of the sights around and this was early in the journey
Headed along this road as the darkness approached and we started looking for accommodation for the night (preferably so we could still get in some night caches), grabbed what we could while we could

Nicely placed and well concealed
Thanks for the placement

Found while caching with Locus_cache in "Harry". One of 29 for the day.
I agree with Kaye, it was a sod. Had us walking all over gz, munching on our "take aways". But a nice hide, deserving of a favourite from me. TFTC.

Out for a day's caching with Dennisc52 and we found 12 and only DNFd 1 prior to meeting up with CP Wanderer, AussieM&M and Dr Owl for another 15 smileys
Had some amazing walks in some pretty spots while doing the locus cache [^]

What a sod of a cache...an an expensive one too! How much did we both spend in here while biding our time wating for the muggle lunch eater to leave the area of GZ!
Almost gave up and then I saw something that just didn't look right...and it wasn't right but it was the cache

TNLN. SL. TFTC Team Ermalesh

I have come across this type of hide and object to hide a cache before. A bit of methodical checking of all the appropriate places and a touch of my finger revealed the hide. TFTC

We have attempted to retrieve this cache many times but there are always too many muggles. What a shame there's so much chocolate here, I suppose someone will have to eat it... We will, no doubt, be back to try again.

A quick look no joy. Will have to slate this one down for Good Friday when there are no muggles around.

Just started hunting for geocaches. This was our second cache that we didn't find.

Attempted for the second time with the cover of darkness on our side. Couldnt find it last time, but found it quickly this time tftc

Nice hide. After enjoying the National Car Museum we now eat chocolate! Tftc.

Tltc

Took quit a bit of effort with 3 pair of eyes to locate the cache inbetween all the muggles there today, but in the end we were victorious in retrieving the cache, how devious!
TFTC Wilbert67

Day four of our caching trip. I joined up with friends to make our attempt on some of the trails down south. Grabbed this 'Not so easy' one as we travelled through. Thanks to my fellow cachers for the company. Lots of fun SL..TFTC

AARRR.. This took some time, but we ended up with a massive smile.the three of us on the job, it only took the one to find. TFTC.. Now. Chocolates.

Previously logged under the team account for Gizmos Gang. Re-logging with my individual account.
Been meaning to do this one for a long time.
Stopped by just as the nearby establishment was closing.
Geo daughter went in to make some purchases and then once the car park was empty we zoomed in for the find.
After watching the vampire and Mr Gizmo hunt for a while, Mrs Gizmo and geo-daughter joined in. Vampire proceeded to inform us of places he had looked. Mrs G suggested trying similar locations to one that was mentioned and we came up trumps immediately.
Replaced log which was full.

Been meaning to do this one for a long time.
Stopped by just as the nearby establishment was closing.
Geo daughter went in to make some purchases and then once the car park was empty we zoomed in for the find.
After watching the vampire and Mr Gizmo hunt for a while, Mrs Gizmo and geo-daughter joined in. Vampire proceeded to inform us of places he had looked. Mrs G suggested trying similar locations to one that was mentioned and we came up trumps immediately.
Replaced log which was full.

Found It!
Nice to finally put this one to bed... Neat little hide but the log is full and needs replacing...
TFTC

What a hide! Took us a while but we finally nutted it out. Log certainly needs replacing, we wrote our log on the scrap bit of paper left by the last finders. TFTC!

Found on a rainy night with all the frogs singing us a very froggy chorus as we searched for this sneaky little cache. Luckily we didn't have to stand in the rain too long before we had it in hand. TFTC ... If only Melba's was open at night *sigh*

Cool spot but the log needs replacing as we had to use scrap peace of paper tftc

Very clever hide clue was critical Thank you

Oho, we found it with a closer look at the description! It nearly beat us and we were about to go home without the find. After a nip into the nearby establishment first, of course. Note it needs a new log.

Found with The Rats, FarmerFrentzen and Big Matt and Shell as part of a ‘Gangsters’ trip to tackle the many power trails in South Australia over a 4 day period.

This was a slight detour from the nearby series. You could smell the chocolate on arrival! Being late in the evening it was quiet and we soon had the cache in hand. Thanks!

Found during another invasion of South Australia with The Rats, Steeba, Big Matt and Shell (collectively known as The Gangsters).

This was one of several we gathered after hoping off the plane in the late evening on the way out to Black Hill. A slight detour off the main road and after a short search we had this one in hand.

Thanks Team Ermalesh for the cache.

Heading over to South Oz with steeba, Farmer Frentzen and Big Matt, it was great to have the gangsters back together for another SA invasion, last time we were here was 2009.

We found this cache as part of the many series/trails we found over our 4-day spree. Our trip has created many milestones, none better than our own new one-day record and a new monthly tally.

I apologise for the duplicate log, by no means does it detract from the enjoyment of finding this cache. Thanks to contributing to the gangsters invasion.

Our 7069th overall find.

Found with steeba, The Rats and FarmerFrentzen on our SA 2013 trip. After flying in late tonight we decided to make a bit of a run for the bush finding as many caches as we could. The rain held off as we made our way east, This was tricky little spot but at 11:30 pm there were no muggles about.

Thanks Team Ermalesh for the cache.

MummaChook found this one today with her Dad after visiting the Cheese store nearby! Very clever hide! Couldn't get the log out to sign then a bus load of Muggles came out of the Chocolate factory! TFTC!

Chickenoo MummaChook Househoops and chicken puff found it at melbas.

The kind of cache I like.

Didn't find it this time. Hopefully will be back. I'm sure that it is a clever hiding spot. Certain that ther e were lots of muggles around.

This was to be my 5th DNF for the day in SA on day two of our four day Adelaide tour.

Dnf

Tricky find with jalinrenos. One of my favourites. Also the Chocolate helped.. TFTC

This entry was edited by SnappyTomCats on Saturday, 27 April 2013 at 02:13:35 UTC.

TFTC.

The log book is pretty much full...we added more paper but it won't last long.

Revisiting this cache with Zedimaster has been 7 yrs since our last find, place nice and quiet at night TFTC

TFTC

Found on a family day caching for the scouts geocaching competition, thankyou.