Hawaii 3/06

In March, Merrill and I went to a CME conference in Hawaii... Not that you'd know it from these pictures, but we _did_ actually attend most of the conference :-) We also spent a lot of time on the beach, by the pool, snorkelling, and sightseeing. The conference was on the Kona side of the big island, and we drove all the way around the island looking for interesting scenery. Unfortunately we picked a rainy day to be at Volcanoes National Park... but there was good scenery elsewhere anyway.

Merrill on the beach the first day	Sunsets were very nice there...
Listening to music and enjoying a $9.75 mai tai (glad work paid for most of this!)	Me on the beach
We drove around the island and here is some of the scenery	Interesting flowers along a short hike we did to a waterfall.
... and plants
...and here's the waterfall	This is the only picture I have from Volcanoes national park--it was so overcast that we couldn't see _anything_ except for these critters who appeared out of the fog on the road in front of us and stayed there a while.
Merrill on a black sand beach	I couldn't get tnough of the black sand...)
More black sand, and palm trees...	This one speaks for itself...
A sea turtle!