Blouberg, Blaauwberg, Cape Town – South Africa

More than 20 firefighters on Thursday responded to a fire at the popular Dolphin Beach Hotel in Blouberg.
Cape Town fire services received an emergency call shortly after 9am on Thursday about a fire in the Blou Fish Restaurant in the hotel.
Emergency personnel evacuated the premises and are attending to the blaze.
Cape Town Fire Service’s Winston [...]

This photograph of a stunning sunset, taken from Big Bay Lifesaving Club, Blouberg, was captured by our Cape Town. Live it. Love it. group member Diane Stokell aka di-izzy, as she enjoyed sundowners at the club.
Diane says: “It had been a perfect afternoon for windsurfers. Their sails tend to look like butterfly wings silhouetted on [...]

An oil slick from a vessel that sank ten years ago near Koeberg Nuclear Power Station is not a threat, the City of Cape Town said.
“From the aerial assessment conducted it has been noted that the oil slick is disintegrating and therefore poses no environmental threat,” Wilfred Solomons-Johannes, spokesman for the Disaster Risk Management Centre [...]

From 14 January 2010, the City of Cape Town will be withdrawing the Blue Flag status granted to Big Bay Beach amid various water management issues. Mayoral Committee Member for Community Services, Cllr. Gerhard Ras says “the City will continue to provide and improve upon the safety and infrastructural services provided at the beach, but [...]

Commuters are furious with Golden Arrow Bus Services for hiking their fares by 9 percent at the beginning of the month.
This means a commuter catching a bus on the Cape Flats would have to pay up to R19 to get to the the city centre, or nearly R18 from Somerset West or Blouberg.
Golden Arrow initially [...]

Table Mountain, as seen on postcards and advertising material is the typical view of the mountain from the Blouberg area.
Blouberg includes a couple of smaller seaside and inland towns of which Bloubergstrand, Milnerton and Melkbosstrand are the best known.
Bloubergstrand is a favorite holiday town with lots of accommodation options, restaurants, shops and long stretches of [...]

Cricket legend Jonty Rhodes’s 15-year marriage with his wife Kate is on the rocks. He will be moving to Cape Town to be with his new girlfriend – report

Rhodes, who has been living in Durban, has two children with his wife – Daniella (9) and Ross [...]

It is the summer of 2009-10 and the Oystercatchers of Ploverbeach (between The Horse trails and Blouberg Strand) are trying to breed again.
The year before last they hatched two chicks of which one survived.
Last year dogs and people trampled over their nest and they lost their eggs.
They remained on the beach for a long time [...]

Residents in Milnerton and Sunset beach will have to live with the buzzing of remote-controlled aircraft for at least another five years, says the City of Cape Town’s legal services department.
Residents living in suburbs adjacent to the Rietvlei Nature Reserve, in which the Cape Radio Flyers Club is situated, have lodged numerous noise complaints with [...]

Blaauwberg Animal Trust was founded in 2002 to provide an urgently needed Animal Rescue Shelter in our area. (The nearest existing shelter, the AACL, is too far away in Epping). We are staffed entirely by unpaid volunteers.
To realise our goal, we need land here in the Table View area, visible and accessible, but not too [...]

Vehicles leaving Sunset Beach will not be able to turn right into Otto du Plessis/R27 at the Ocean Way traffic intersection (near to the Engen garage) for two to three weeks, from Monday, 07 September.
The City of Cape Town did issue a traffic warning about this construction in last month, but due to bad weather [...]

Businessman and avid cyclist Colin van Schalkwyk, who was killed when a shipping container truck crashed into the group with which he was cycling, had been training to take part in his 10th Pick n Pay Cape Argus Cycle Tour.
His widow, Zarina, said her husband, the father of their six-year-old daughter, Sara, had been training [...]

Traffic Nightmares!
This peaceful circle at the end of Blaauwberg road…..

(off the record, I’ve always wondered why they never build a nice fancy fountain feature in the middle of this circle, it would have looked so much more spectacular than the existing  weird features.. comments?)
..Could end up looking like this…

Photo apparently taken from somewhere in China
Yep, [...]

It’s about bloody time!
THE days are over when property owners on the Blaauwberg beachfront could put up a block of flats without going through a formal rezoning process that would have to include public participation.
With the lapse of Section 14 of the Land Use Planning Ordinance (LUPO) the scenario no longer exists where single residential [...]

Ever wanted to compete against the top lifesaving athletes South Africa has to offer?
Join Hansgrohe for a morning packed with exciting beach challenges and watch the top 24 selected athletes take on each other in the inaugural 2009 Hansgrohe Masters of Water Lifesaving Series.
Big Bay Bloubergstrand will host the first leg of this three part [...]

WITH proper maintenance, the substantially upgraded Potsdam Wastewater Treatment Works in Milnerton will have more than enough capacity for the next five years.After 2013, however, with growth in the Blaauwberg area continuing at the current rate, the Potsdam facility will have to be extended again, says Kevin Samson, the City of Cape Town’s manager of [...]

A portion of Koeberg Road will be included in the City of Cape Town’s proposed bus-and-bicycle corridor between the CBD and Table View, according to a draft report released on Tuesday.The public is invited to comment on the proposal to upgrade the stretch of Koeberg Road between Boundary Road and Blaauwberg Road, which would have [...]

Table View beach, where tourists flock to see the famous view of Table Mountain across the bay, is a disgrace, says former Bok captain Corne Krige, who heads the Bloubergstrand Residents Association.
His remarks on Monday followed a meeting of the Blaauwberg sub-council when DA councillor Elizabeth Berry described the beach as “an embarrassment” to the [...]

The National Sea Rescue Institute recovered the body of a man who drowned at Bloubergstrand in Cape Town, the SABC said on Saturday.
NSRI spokesperson Craig Lambinon told the SABC the man, believed to be aged 30, was swept out to sea on Saturday afternoon
He said attempts to resuscitate the man were made but it was [...]

With this weekend’s Africa Aerospace Expo expected to attract tens of thousands of visitors, the City of Cape Town’s traffic service has warned of heavy traffic, particularly on the M5, N1 and Koeberg Road.
Principal traffic inspector Merle Lourens said motorists not attending the airshow at the South African Air Force’s Ysterplaat base on Saturday and [...]