Portuguese explorer, Vasco da Gama, rounded the Cape on 22 November 1497 on his way to India. A stone replica of the Vasco Da Gama cross which was planted there in 1487 stands tall on the hillside above the beach. It marks the spot where the Portuguese explorers came ashore.
Thanks for a piece of history.
Wow, the white figure looks like a ghost standing there. Very cool!
Gaelyn, you’ve visited places and monuments in SA that I haven’t !
Well, get out there. I’ll be back mid-Jan-April. How about you?
So many beautiful places in our country!
Yes there are. Including where you are.
How beautiful!! What a coast line this must be.
Ol’ Vasco he was quite a traveller. Great history lesson for us all. Very pretty coast. MB
He did a lot of travel and discoveries along our coast and there are crosses from Cape Town to Mozambique.
Didn’t we look for another cross?
Was the Vasco de Gama cross planted in 1487? He then rounded the Cape in 1497. There was an earlier explorer, captain Bartolomeu Dias, that rounded the Cape of Good Hope but he did that in 1488 and went north up the east coast only to the Fish River.
And there is a Dias cross at the Cape also.
There is so much in this big wide wonderful world that I don’t know! Thank you for what I learn here.