GC48ZYB Candy Coated Orange Flavoured Chocolate Goodness (Traditional Cache) in South Australia, Australia created by Freddo the Chocolate Frog and Orange Tadpoles

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A cache by Freddo the Chocolate Frog and Orange Tadpoles Message this owner

Hidden : 6/5/2013

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Size: Size: small (small)

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Cape Jaffa dates back to 3rd. April 1802 when Captain Nicholas Baudin discovered and named it Cap Bernouilli. Captain Matthew Flinders wrongly identified the charts and called it Cape Jaffa after the town in near Jerusalem. By 1850 the short penisula was officially recognised as CAPE JAFFA.

Jaffas are a small round sweet consisting of a soft chocolate centre with a hard covering of orange flavoured, orange coloured crisp candy. The sweet is part of Australian and New Zealand cultural folklore. Jaffas have often been sold in cinemas and have gained iconic status because of the noise made when they are dropped (accidentally or deliberately) and rolled rattling down sloping wooden floors.

The cache is located near the ruins of the original onshore lighthouse keepers cottages at Kings camp built for the Cape Jaffa Lighthouse, which was built offshore on Margaret Brock Reef. The lighthouse platform was only 10 metres by 20 metres. The office and living areas were built as two floors into the structure of the tower. Two lighthouse keepers lived onshore and two keepers offshore on the lighthouse in four-week cycles, Access to the tip of Cape Jaffa is via a 4WD track 1km long. If your vehicle is not up to the track it is pleasant walk to the cache. Look out for the whale jaw on the beach.