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Fire in Noordhoek Wetlands
Fire in Noordhoek Wetlands It was a beautifully sunny and quite windy day yesterday… a Saturday when most families went out or came to Noordhoek so their kids could meet Father Christmas. A day of celebration and joy. However, when I heard that noise in the air… and more and more of it and...
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Table Mountain a Winner
Table Mountain a Winner After campaigning furiously to Vote for Table Mountain in the garden city Cape Town, South Africa, as becoming one of the spectacular “New7Wonders of Nature”… and a really close run with some of the many uniquely beautiful places on our cherished planet Earth, I was enthralled to hear that the...
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New Monkey Valley Resort Blog
New Monkey Valley Resort Blog The new website development for Cape Town’s hottest tip when it comes to nature resorts within a radius of about 30 km from the Mother City: Monkey Valley Resort in Noordhoek, is planned and set out in a highly dynamic and search engine efficient way. This means it has...
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Good Morning from Noordhoek
Good Morning from Noordhoek Good Morning from Noordhoek… wishing you a joyful and fulfilled day! Good Morning from Noordhoek Losing Internet connections again at around 8 am this morning… just after posting my article regarding the passing of visionary Apple legend Steve Jobs… I got out into the rising sunshine to quietly...
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How Social Media can Raise Awareness
How Social Media can Raise Awareness Coming back to my feedback regarding the eTourism Africa Summit in Cape Town, South Africa, here’s a short snippet to show how Social Media can raise Awareness. This can be of tremendous help for many worthy causes. Here a brief example concerning Nature Conservation, where we can help...
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Bird Photography by Bianca Gubalke
Bird Photography by Bianca Gubalke Bird Photography by Bianca Gubalke is the next category featuring on the new Photo Blog under construction HERE . It is based on a smart Photo Theme for WordPress Blogs by Semiomantics XO. Bird Photography by Bianca Gubalke Living in a very natural environment bordering on Silvermine Nature...
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Diversity in Africa Conference in Dallas
Copyright © 2010 Bianca Gubalke. Visit the original article at http://biancagubalke.com/bianca-gubalke/diversity-in-africa-conference-in-dallas/.Diversity in Africa Conference in Dallas Presenting Part 3/3 of the LIVE talk from Noordhoek – Cape Town, South Africa, as part of the “Diversity in Africa” Conference in Dallas, Texas, USA, on 28 October 2010 – click to the right in the Media...
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Suffolk Punch Horses
Copyright © 2010 Zo Nicholas. Visit the original article at http://zonicholas.com/environment-conservation/suffolk-punch-horses/. Contents [ hide ] 1 Suffolk Punch Horses 1.1 Suffolk Punch Horse Images Suffolk Punch Horses Having visited the Suffolk Punch Trust in Woodbridge the other day here are some pictures of the Suffolk horses. The Suffolk Punch horse is the oldest breed of...
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Suffolk Punch
Copyright © 2010 Zo Nicholas. Visit the original article at http://zonicholas.com/environment-conservation/suffolk-punch-horse/. Contents [ hide ] 1 Suffolk Punch 1.1 Suffolk Punch Horse 1.2 Suffolk Punch Trust Suffolk Punch No it’s not the latest drink craze to be served up at a party, it’s actually a breed of working draft horses that are under threat...
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Flying Geese
Contents [ hide ] 1 Flying Geese 1.1 Flying Geese Images Flying Geese After an absolutely stunning September day with wall to wall sunshine, we witnessed another awesome spectacle at the close of day just as the sun was about to go down, just like the previous day, a massive wave of Flying Geese coming straight at us. Hundreds...
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A Gaggle or a Wedge
By Zo Nicholas Contents [ hide ] 1 Flying Geese 1.1 Geese Flying in Formation Images Flying Geese When you are busy it’s the unusual sounds that disturb and attract your attention especially if the noise is getting louder and louder. Looking out of the window I discovered where the noise was coming from, a gaggle...
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Noordhoek in Spring
Noordhoek in Spring Noordhoek in Spring… here’s to a beautiful South African spring right from my doorstep… and if you want a special treat, go up along the West Coast of the Western Cape, South Africa (towards Namibia, including Namaqualand) and see, smell and feel endless flower carpets of dainty Namaqua Daisies exploding in...
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Goodbye Sweet Pea
By Zo Nicholas Contents [ hide ] 1 Goodbye Sweet Pea 1.1 Sweet Pea Plant Goodbye Sweet Pea One of those wonderful sweet smelling garden flowers is the Sweetpea, Lathyrus Odoratus. A native of the native of the Mediterranean region but grown successfully here in my garden in Essex. Sweet Pea Plant The Sweet...
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Summer Feasts
By Zo Nicholas Contents [ hide ] 1 Summer Feasts 1.1 Wasps 1.2 European Wasp 1.3 European Wasp image Summer Feasts The summer holidays are almost over and the children start the process of going back to school and we slowly drift into autumn; the season of ‘mellow fruitfullness’ as so aptly put by...
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Down Came the Spider
By Zo Nicholas Contents [ hide ] 1 Spider 1.1 Garden Spider Spider The last day in August turns out to be a glorious summers day which is a rare occurence this summer here in Essex where I live. If you saw my earlier posts about the local Airshow you will notice that the weather...
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Silvermine Nature Reserve
Silvermine Nature Reserve Silvermine Nature Reserve – along Ou Kaapse Weg when coming from Cape Town, South Africa, and driving over the stunning Cape Peninsular mountain ranges towards Noordhoek – has just exploded with gold! It’s spring! Silvermine Nature Reserve Sweeping vistas from Silvermine Nature Reserve with a gentle mist dissolving in the early...
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Sunset at Monkey Valley Resort Noordhoek
Sunset at Monkey Valley Resort Noordhoek Spring is here and with it, the sun will slowly travel back from its current position behind Chapman’s Peak until we see it setting in the Atlantic Ocean right from our doorsteps here in Noordhoek – just as you can admire a golden sunset at Monkey Valley Resort...
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Sunset at Monkey Valley Resort Noordhoek
Copyright © 2010 Bianca Gubalke. Visit the original article at http://biancagubalke.com/south-africa/sunset-at-monkey-valley-resort-noordhoek/.Sunset at Monkey Valley Resort Noordhoek Spring is here and with it, the sun will slowly travel back from its current position behind Chapman’s Peak until we see it setting in the Atlantic Ocean right from our doorsteps here in Noordhoek – just as...
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Sunset at Monkey Valley Resort Noordhoek
Copyright © 2010 Bianca Gubalke. Visit the original article at http://biancagubalke.com/south-africa/sunset-at-monkey-valley-resort-noordhoek/.Sunset at Monkey Valley Resort Noordhoek Spring is here and with it, the sun will slowly travel back from its current position behind Chapman’s Peak until we see it setting in the Atlantic Ocean right from our doorsteps here in Noordhoek – just as...
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Monkey Valley Beach Nature Resort Noordhoek
Google Top 10 Performance Website development has a main purpose: increase the visibility of the site and increase subscribers and regular readers and of course conversion from readers to customers. But that’s not all: Website development has also a defensive function and that is to protect a brand for example, or the image of...
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