These first three are camera shots of a house just off the hotel grounds. It's a nice house, but I really wanted to get a photo to show my house painter as a possible color for my place.
These next two photos are of another house with a color that I liked. Ignore the ocean in the background. This house was a short walk north of the hotel. The hill in the background is maybe 1/2 mile south of the hotel. Big Beach is on the other side of the hill. I tried to find a trail head to walk up this, with no luck.
The rest of these photos were taken with my cell phone.
The first is the entrance to Big Beach, about 1 mile south of the hotel. I took this in the shadow of the hill seen in the photo above.
This next photo was taken on Big Beach: you can see the crater of an old volcano in the center of the photo. The hotel has a snorkeling tour out to this, which I did in 2000. The sun was so bright that I could not see my screen--otherwise I would have zoomed a bit.
This is a shot of an unusual cloud formation on the north mountain of island at sunset. It should give you some idea of the strength of the trade winds that blow in from the west. This was taken at the conference banquet...the hotel is right behind me.
Finally, here is a photo of me taken by Dave Yuen, also at the banquet (same sunset). The little nub on the ocean near my left elbow is the volcano crater also shown in the Big Beach photo.
