The Spring


This fresh water spring is the one from which Bartolomeu Dias, João da Nova, and other early explorers drew water when they put in at Mossel Bay.

Dias named it "Aguada de São Bras" or "The watering place of St Blaize" since he landed in Mossel Bay on the Feast of St Blaize (3 February 1488)

The spring can be found in the Dias Museum Complex and it still flows today.

 

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