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 Noorhoek, right from the deck of the “Crowned Eagle”.
Visitors have left testimonials calling it “Paradise”.
Sunset at Monkey Valley Resort Noordhoek
If you want to know more about Monkey Valley Resort in Noordhoek, South Africa, have a look at the short video on YouTube in HD – CLICK HERE.
If you have a slow line, I recommend you let it run through once first – and then play it, watch and listen in one go!
Monkey Valley Beach Nature Resort is definitely worth a trip… and there are many things to do in the idyllic Noordhoek Valley.
Photographic Workshop at Monkey Valley Resort
This stunning sunset at Monkey Valley Resort Noordhoek was taken by award-winning international photographer David Turnley from New York, who gave a Photographic Workshop at Monkey Valley Resort in December 2009, and who will be back this year!
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 a business, its reputation, ambitions and purpose. The Google Top 10 performance of a site delivers a good ground to judge whether a site reaches it’s audience or not and whether Google search returns reflect the intentions of the brand or business owners.
To illustrate the above I have given a shot at the Monkey Valley resort in Noordhoek, South Africa. Of course, I did not go into the main keywords or what I would consider should be their main keywords, I simply went after the brand.
Monkey Valley Resort Noordhoek, South Africa
The official name of the place is “Monkey Valley Beach Nature Resort” and then completed by “Noordhoek, Cape Town, South Africa”. Now this makes it a good choice of targets to shoot at.
The domain name used by the resort is monkeyvalleyresort.com.
People who vaguely know the place and it’s name may not retain the whole string, but just Monkey Valley, Monkey Valley Resort, Monkey Valley Cape Town, Monkey Valley Hotel South Africa or such like. In any case “Monkey Valley” is likely to be part of the search.
Monkey Valley
Monkey Valley returns 407 000 results on Google. My shot went to rank 15 (yorgonestoridis.com) as well as 18 (yorgoopublishing.com). The resort is on number one.
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Monkey Valley Cape Town
Probably the most popular geographic reference is Cape Town. Under Monkey Valley Cape Town Google returns 85 000 results. My shot ended up on Rank 6:
Looking up Monkey Valley News, we get a smashing result as 8 of the top 10 positions are taken by the YORGOO Publishing Network or associated sites. We even beat monkeyvalleyresort.com. Google returns 280 000 results.
Here we find a similar result as before: 6 of Google Top 10 ranks are occupied by YORGOO Publishing Network and associated publishers, number one being gardenroutepublishing.com.
Of course we could target more interesting key phrases such as accommodation or cape town resorts and so on. But the above shows the power of professional web publishing. YORGOO Publishing is an online Publishing Network built on Semiomantics Frameworks. The impact of publications edited and published by YORGOO Publishing is astonishing and provides high value to customers who need to gain top visibility on Google Top 10.
Monkey Valley on YouTube
On YouTube we find similar results for Monkey Valley and Monkey Valley Resort with Cape Town or South Africa added:
The image and look being important, professional web design is a must. Today visual media elements need to be added to websites to improve the surfing experience. Pictures and videos sell, provided they are compelling, of high quality and trigger emotion while telling the story.
Web Designers such as Bianca Gubalke who is working on a top notch project for Monkey Valley have the right professional approach and technical skills and flair to build sites second to none which will constitute a long term asset for each lucky customer.
YORGOO Publishing’s reputation is well established and many commercial websites have taken advantage of the network to achieve within a short time high density on Google and other Search Engines.
In the ideal case, a customer builds his content on a Semiomantics Framework (as is this site -- Semiomantics XO 3.x), and purchases then a connection to the YORGOO Publishing network in order to benefit from the wide and powerful distribution of the YORGOO Publishing Network.
YORGOO Publishing Services will be presented shortly and introduced for public use.
My Life in a Day Project Moon wasn’t planned at all; it just happened… and the few shots you see below hardly reflect what I saw, what I felt and how difficult it was under the circumstances to capture any images at all.
You may click on the picture below to see the brief High Definition Video I loaded to YouTube t0 understand what I mean. However, what I witnessed here – in the early morning hours of Saturday, the 24th July 2010 -, was an indication for me to take this day serious in terms of the “Life in a Day Project”, it was an invitation to dance :)
Life in a Day Project Moon
How did the “Life in a Day Project Moon” start?
Initially, I thought I’d hike high up into the Silver Mine Nature Reserve mountains just before sunrise, to film these absolutely unique and serene moments… especially as a week earlier I had been awed by what really seemed an early explosion of spring in Silvermine Nature Reserve. I posted a picture HERE.
So my NIKON Coolpix P90 was packed, my tripod was ready – and I relied on my inner watch to wake me at the right time.
It didn’t happen though… it was my cat, MadMax, who requested to go out… around 5 am. As we have winter right now in Noordhoek, South Africa, I found this odd as he loves to snooze until at least the wild Egyptian geese and the tremorous hadidas wake us with their clamorous concert.
It was still pitch-dark… but when I went to the terrace door I stopped in my tracks: there, right in front of me… past the dark and dreaming Noordhoek Valley with only a few street lights shimmering in the cold and gloomy air… high above the dark and strangely invisible Atlantic Ocean with not even a shadow of a separation at the horizon… right there was a blood-red, huge moon. It was a full moon, but black shadows wooshed across it horizontallygiving it an eery, oddly deformed shape.
Duh!
I had to get my camera quickly and take a picture! I forgot about the cold and got out onto the terrace with my camera on the tripod. There was absolutely no light… just very soft natural sounds.
As I started focusing, I discovered a very, very bright ‘star’ right beneath the moon. Hmmm… I wasn’t aware of any stars around at this time of the year (… and the National Observatory in Cape Town confirmed later that this wasn’t the case)… so what was it?
I zoomed in… and woosh! This ‘thing’ moved… and fast… and as I looked through the viewer there were colors I would never have expected… greens, pinks and everything shining if not pulsating strangely from inside.
There was no other light.
So was it a plane?
But suddenly it looked like an amoeba… then it changed shape and moved fast to the right…
I had to film this! Noone would believe the way this moved, so fast and changing shape all the time… but in the darkness and without yet being too familiar with the video setting on my digital camera, I didn’t find the switch! This was more than annoying… I felt I was losing precious time… and there this ‘light’ had disappeared to the far right and now it looked like a perfect disc scintillating in a green light shining from inside… so better than nothing I took another shot.
Finally, I found the video switch and now… where the heck did the moon go? It was so pitch dark I could hardly find anything through the viewer … then it was all over.
A bit frustrated and freezing, I took a shot of Kommetjie to the far left, with its lighthouse shining rhythmically and comforting… and then I decided this was it and went back inside to warm up and reflecting on what I had seen.
Life in a Day Ufo
Did my Life in a Day start with an… UFO?
It was certainly not a star, not a planet, not a satellite… and it moved too fast for a plane and the colors and shapes did not correspond to anything I knew… and my husband is an airplane and helicopter freak so I am familiar with quite some flying engines. So yes, this was an “Unidentified Flying Object” – that’s exactly what I saw, an UFO… not more, not less.
But there was a way to see more: to pull it up on ADOBE Photoshop and enlarge at least the disc… and this is what I did. The shape was pretty sharp given the immense distance and my simple camera. I enlarged to max – a whopping 3200% as you see on my YouTube Movie that I submitted later for the “Life in a Day” Project. With nothing but natural sounds as it happened…
You be the judge… nothing else was touched, although I do have some more pictures and footage.
Talking of footage… you see the video part at the end with the last shimmer of the red moon before it disappeared completely. What I left out here as I was searching the moon and moving the camera… was the disc to the far right, by now turned into a perfect sphere scintillating in soft greens, pinks and blue. This I only discovered at the end, when studying all the material. Amazing!
So that was my exciting start into the 24th July 2010… totally contrary to what I had expected! As the weather was absolutely lousy and it started to rain, there was no sun and thus no day to be welcomed either… so as is my way of doing things: I let things come and then see how I could respond. Mere intuition.
The sun only came after 2 pm that day… but long before that, there was something on my mind, something that drove me out with my camera and have yet another mesmerizing encounter…
Silvermine Nature Reserve – along Ou Kaapse Weg when coming from Cape Town, South Africa, and driving over these stunning mountain ranges towards Noordhoek – has just exploded with gold!
Silvermine Nature Reserve
Sweeping vistas from Silvermine Nature Reserve with a gentle mist dissolving in the early morning sunlight.
Although I experimented with filters in a couple of monochrome versions, I love the above untouched original digital picture from my simple Nikon Coolpix P90 as it’s so authentic and documenting a very special day.
Imagine with this a very soft breeze rustling through the leaves of the typical fynbos… the already withering ericas overgrown by strikingly energetic leucadendrons… and the occasional twitter of those beautiful little long-tailed sunbirds circling up into the crystalline air….
Magic!
Website Publishing
Website Publishing is our main concern when firstly trying to reach Google Top 10 positions – and then holding them. This automatically means visibility and traffic – and from here it’s about attracting and keeping visitors, readers and potential buyers through captivating images, graphics and other forms of media – meaning a great Web Design – a Web Design like Semiomantics that is customized and optimized for each customer individually and prooves its efficiency every single day.
This article was posted earlier… but due to a server migration and a corresponding roll-back, it was lost in the process. However, I love this picture and wanted to share it again.
Author: Bianca Gubalke, Art, Media, Publishing.
Co-Founder of YORGOO, YCADEMY and Semiomantics.
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Silvermine Nature Reserve – along Ou Kaapse Weg when coming from Cape Town, South Africa, and driving over these stunning mountain ranges towards Noordhoek – has just exploded with gold!
Silvermine Nature Reserve
Sweeping vistas from Silvermine Nature Reserve with a gentle mist dissolving in the early morning sunlight.
Although I experimented with filters in a couple of monochrome versions, I love the above untouched original digital picture from my simple Nikon Coolpix P90 as it’s so authentic and documenting a very special day.
Imagine with this a very soft breeze rustling through the leaves of the typical fynbos… the already withering ericas overgrown by strikingly energetic leucadendrons… and the occasional twitter of those beautiful little long-tailed sunbirds circling up into the crystalline air….
The streets here in Noordhoek, South Africa, were empty this morning – just like the shops, banks, even the hospital reception!
It’s like the quiet before a real big storm – the FIFA 2010 Kickoff Concert everybody is waiting for… starting in about 2 hours!
The link for the LIVE streaming will be posted here 15 minutes before the start – CLICK THE PICTURE and see the writing in green above the video:
First ever FIFA 2010 Kickoff Celebration Concert
The first ever FIFA 2010 Kickoff Celebration Concert with incredible artists LIVE on stage will start at 8 pm our SA time and is said to run for 3 hours – not sure about that one with fans from South Africa as well as the whole of Africa and the world exploding with rhythm and enthusiasm… How can one even think of time then! Not in Africa! We may not have money… but we have TIME! And we have JOY!
Wish I were there LIVE! But can’t wait to get the streaming signal.. . occasionally I hear the testing noises from the control room already!
Apparently this Kickoff Concert will be the biggest entrainment event in Africa to date! CLICK THE PICTURE and see where we stand….
Tomorrow at 2 pm South African (Paris/Berlin) time the Opening Ceremony will start – I will watch it on grand screen in Monkey Valley Beach Nature Resort with the French Team !!! Woahhhh!
The Opening ceremony will be produced by Control Room in collaboration with Vevo which will provide exclusive streaming available to all in the website www.worldcup.vevo.com
BAFANA BAFANA
The first match will be between BAFANA BAFANA from South Africa against Mexico! In honour of our guests from the far West I saw several cooks offering hot Mexican dishes today – ole!
Whoever will win – it’s YOU, the supporter, the fan, the singer and the dancer who will make it happen! WAKA WAKA – YEBO GOGO!
Here’s the LIVE streaming link: http://worldcup.vevo.com/
While I am in the process of creating an Evolution Flashsite for Monkey Valley Beach Nature Resort in Noordhoek, South Africa, I am thinking of ways of promoting it on the Internet.
A brilliant way of doing this is by using an Accordion Flash as I did on Semiomantics XO; see it yourself on my Web Design Blog and on the screenshot below. Click on it and it opens in an overlay in a bigger format. But going through to the website itself and seeing it all in action is much better to understand how it all works. It’s just a first try for me; there will be many versions with the same technique. It’s just a matter of getting the hang of it and then going a bit overboard :)
Accordion Flash on Semiomantics XO
This Accordion Flash on Semiomantics XO gives us the possibility to basically insert up to 8 pictures accompanied by semi-transparent text fields that we can fill with slogans or any form of information that relates to what we show or what we want to express.
Semiomantics Evolution Flash
We have seen the same principle on our brand-new Semiomantics Evolution Flash – see my example on Bookcovers.
Once I have sorted out the conversion of the intro video into something even slow lines like ours down here where pink elephants abound can download and see without buffering, I will provide links.
The Semiomantics Evolution Flash is available in my SHOP and will be entirely personalized for you. More on this to follow. . .
Best Cape Town Restaurants is a topic that fascinates me and that I have started working on a project on Monkey Valley Beach Nature Resort as you may have already noticed in other publications, especially on Bookcovers which includes Thorfynn’s Restaurant on a bookcover on “Best Cape Town Restaurants”.
Best Cape Town Restaurants
Best Cape Town Restaurants
One of the Best Cape Town Restaurants is a secret tip set in beautiful Monkey Valley Beach Nature Resort in Noordhoek, along the breath-taking coastal road leading from Cape Town to Cape Point. This unique venue is ideal for a romantic getaway, to enjoy the best coffee and croissants on a Sunday morning, to have a relaxed lunch with family and friends after spending some time on Noordhoek Beach, to dine out by candle-light, attend Conferences in tranquil natural environments or celebrate a memorable Wedding.
Semiomantics Evolution Flash styled by Bianca Gubalke
The project is currently under construction on a Semiomantics Evolution Flash designed by Bianca Gubalke.
More on this as I progress and can make the material available for viewing.
Colour is all around us . . . and if you go through life with open eyes you’d be surprised at what Nature has to offer. . . and this even in Grunge style!
Colour and Grunge
Colour and Grunge by Nature – or call it ‘camouflage’. . . this curious yet incredibly rapid lizard below can be found daily on his favourite rock in my garden – provided the sun is out! That’s what I call lifestyle!
Colour Harmonies
Looking at the Colour Harmonies this magnificent ‘Bearded Dragon’ displays, I feel like being transported back into prehistoric times when dinosaurs were roaming this planet!
Well, I am not yet 100% sure that it’s a “Bearded Dragon” as it’s not that easy to find and dig out the information online, however, it’s part of the lizard family and it certainly enjoys life as we all should… never mind the hawks and herons around!
Just look at a detail and you are in awe of the beauty of Creation…
I wish I could post more of them as it’s a symphony of colours in perfect harmony.
Having been immobilized and forced offline for a few days gave me a much needed rest and time to think and meditate on the many conclusive though disturbing occurrences that are surrounding us within a world of turmoil and… accelerating change.
It is my absolute conviction that the solutions we are all looking for on the ‘outside’ cannot be found but ‘within’ – within ourselves that is… within our thoughts and our dreams… and thus within our Vision or projection of the world we would like to see.
We are responsible.
With the way Knowledge spreads via the Internet we automatically become involved and are given the choice and opportunity to react – in one way or another. And this means we can either externalize it – or take the message in and change its vibration by our Thoughts, our Love. Peacefully… but with sharp intent. And we all have the capabilities to do this and thus actively contribute to our beautiful environment and especially, for Mother Nature. From within.
My articles on “Communicating with Dolphins” continue getting attention and comments… and with it came the mention of how military sonar systems and ultra-sound equipment disrupt the way sea mammals – who rely on their hearing of Sound for life’s most basic functions – such as orientation and communicating to find food and/or a mate, raising their young ones and protecting themselves from predators.
And just 20 minutes away from Kommetjie – whre those 55 whales beached a few weeks ago – is Simonstown, a naval military base… and there are rumours about foreign submarines in our waters (What nobody mentions HERE and the Facts HERE).
Sonars Harm Whales and Dolphins
How Sonar Harms Whales and Dolphins with Pierce Brosnan
We need the right Knowledge, Awareness and Compassion… and as a Movie is worth more than a 1000 words and who would not want to listen to a personality like Pierce Brosnan? – let me say it with pictures – just click on the Picture above and watch the 5 minute movie that is extremely eye-opening – and let’s never forget that we have the Power to Change . . .
Well, I am not yet 100% sure that it’s a “Bearded Dragon” as it’s not that easy to find and dig out the information online, however, it’s part of the lizard family and it certainly enjoys life as we all should… never mind the hawks and herons around!
Just look at a detail and you are in awe of the beauty of Creation…
I wish I could post more of them as it’s a symphony of colours in perfect harmony.
