History of gordons bay
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GORGEOUS GORDON'S BAY
- Historian and Gordon’s Bayer Mari Fouchè, author of the wonderful booklet “Great Explorations – the Gordon’s Bay Story,” asks an intriguing question about the people who first ventured and roamed the beautiful shores of the North-Eastern False Bay. Mari is an active Friend of the Gordon’s Bay Library and a well-known writer of poetry, short stories and history. Her popular booklet “Great Explorations” (available at the Gordon’s Bay Library), is illustrated by daughter Adele Claudia Fouche, a talented artist with her own gallery in Hermanus.
As residents or visitors we love to walk the beautiful shores of this north-eastern corner of False Bay, revelling in its safe waters, strolling the shaded paths, having fun gazing into rock pools and gathering shells on the beach with all the convenient amenities close at hand. Ever wondered who were the first to venture on these shores?
Evidence left in their middens and on the walls of caves, assures us that the San and Khoikhoi people did roam the southern coastline of Africa. Strandlopers had for thousands of years been born, lived and died on these shores, gaining their livelihood from seafood off the rocks, bird’s eggs and small animals, but who were the first Eur
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Gordons Bay, Power point Province
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Gordon's Bay
Harbour town in South Africa
Not to be confused with Gordon's Bay (Australia).
Place in Western Cape, South Africa
Gordon's Bay (Afrikaans: Gordonsbaai) is a harbour town in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It is included in the City of Cape Townmetropolitan municipality Eastern Suburbs region (formerly called Helderberg Basin).[2] It is situated on the shores of Gordon's Bay in the northeastern corner of False Bay about 58 km from Cape Town to the south of the N2 national road and is named after Robert Jacob Gordon (1743–1795), the Dutch explorer of Scottish descent.[3]
Gordon's Bay is the smallest of three towns in the Helderberg region (Somerset West, Strand and Gordon's Bay), so named after the Helderberg Mountain which is part of the Hottentots-Holland Mountains which border the locality on two sides. Gordon's Bay was originally named "Fish Hoek", many years before the town of the same name, located on the western side of False Bay, was founded. Evidence of this can be seen on the outside wall of the local Post Office.
Gordon's Bay consists of the old village, situated around the old harbour and Bikini Beach, the mountainside on the lower slopes of the Hottentots-Holland mountains overlooking False Bay, and th