The coast of Cabo Frio Island, in Arraial do Cabo Frio, is a shipyard cemetery and was the scene of clashes between the French, Portuguese and Indians. . The best known is the headless ghost. On the beach there is a fig tree on the top of a dune and some say that at night, near it, one can see the ghost of a headless armor rider looking for his head, lost in the Battle of the Canoes in the 17th century . In the episode, a French ship was attacked by the Indians and the commander died thrown off.
The Navy maintains a research center on the Island of Cabo Frio, a lighthouse (from 1861), a waveguide and acoustic ray installations for the detection and classification of ships, as well as a field of corrosion tests. And he set up an oceanographic museum on the continent.
Much of the island is from alkaline rocks, from 49 to 71 million years old. The vegetation is composed of remnants of Atlantic Forest. IEAPM researchers study, for example, biofouling, ecological successions, cyanobacteria. There are studies in botany, archeology and ornithology by
This photo is from the Fort that protected the invasions of foreigners, the canhos were pointed to the sea to protect the city of Cabo Frio, because here existed a tree of great value called PAU-BRAZIL.
This fort is called “Fort São Matheus” since the time before our colonization of the Portuguese there was also a prison and next was found cemetery of Indians.
The ghost ships and apparitions go round old stories in this crazy. Only you come to my city to know this story closely.
