Comments on: The Blue Peter – not rocking on a Saturday night

By: pedro

pedro — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:13:55 +0000

hi y’all,
I moved to Blouberg from crowdy Rome in Italy 12 years ago and Blue peter was there and rocking on Thursday as a summer sundowner spot and as a hang out spot for surfers and windsurfers, it was just a grat vibe! but the pizza always sucked, being italian I can’t take a margherita with a thick layer of garlic to destroy it, shameful. the problem with that spot is that being a cash cow it has always been run as a low management place, bad service and bad management. it could improve a lot. the only vibey place at that time was Babeloo’s in the marine circle, a place to be after midnight also on thursday night. I can recall people driving from cape town to be there, now with 2 kids and many responsibilities I wouldn’t know. perhaps Pokalolo? the surfers bar on the beachfront in the primi piatti building…..don’t know, I don’t drink much and if I go out is to see old friends.
we should create a nice vibey place in blouberg, let’s see what happens in the new beachfront developement in big bay, it will take a few years though.
see you there with my kids, I’ll have to watch them from far just to make sure they behave……

By: Kerry-Anne

Kerry-Anne — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:30:47 +0000

Thanks for the comment, Glen. We’ve done the sundowners thing at Blue Peter a few times with friends, but I don’t know… for some reason I’ve just never enjoyed the vibe. It does strike me as a bit odd that there are no rocking nightspots in the area though, given the huge expansion there over the last few years.

By: Glen

Glen — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 07:32:32 +0000

Hehe, being from the Blouberg area myself, it is quite well known here that Blue Peter is not the place to be on a Saturday night or should I say, any other night.

But one thing that Blue Peter is well known for is having drinks there on a Sunday evening to watch the sun go down over Robben Island. The place is packed to capacity and the vibe is great. The service isn’t steller, but hey, it is the only beachfront vibey place in the area. The other beachfront spot is Doodles, but that place is just plain dodgy and hasn’t seen a makeover in 300 years.

But there is no place like Le Med on a Sunday evening, but like many other Bloubergers, we are surely not going to travel all the way to Camps Bay to have risk driving home with a couple of toots under our belts. So, Blue Peter does the trick.

But I have to agree with you in a big way, Blue Peter after dark once the crowds have dispersed – not a good idea.