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Location: South Africa » Western Cape » St Helena Bay

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With it’s white rocks and sapphire blue sea, St Helena is one of the principal centres of the fishing industry in South Africa and is well known for it’s huge catches of pilchards and anchovies. The coastline is very beautiful with fine beaches. Because of it’s unique location, St Helena is the only town on the West Coast where the sun rises over the sea.

GENERAL INFORMATION

How to get there

Velddrift 29 km

HISTORICAL VIEW

Vasco Da Gama Museum

Britannia Bay

Vasco da Gama Monument

NATURE

Stompneus Bay

Vasco da Gama, the Portuguese explorer landed here in 1497. It is also one of the major centres of the vast St Helena fishing industry with a number of fish processing factories situated between Stompneus Bay and the mouth of the Berg River.

Irma Booysen Floral Reserve

ATTRACTIONS

The St Helena Bay area offers excellent fishing and scuba diving opportunities.

Canal and River Cruises

Sand River

A 15 km corridor of moving sands