WHERE DID IT ALL BEGIN?
After many years of operating a successful restaurant, Café Gannet, and Hotel (Protea Hotel by Marriott Mossel Bay). Our founder was looking for a dynamic way to harness the full potential of the property.
The brand aim’s to celebrate the rich history of our unique property and the greater Mossel Bay. On the 3rd of February 1488 Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias landed in Mossel Bay after being washed around the Cape in a storm leaving him forced to make landfall to replenish his supplies while trying to navigate a sea route from Europe to India.
Saint Blaize – was actually Mossel Bay’s first recorded name. When Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias landed here on 3 Feb 1488 – it coincided with the Catholic day of St Blaise and he named it Aguada de São Brás, the Watering Place of St Blaize. Saint Blaize was ironically well known as healer of throat ailments as well as a protector of wild animals.
