Snorkeling in Japan, part 2

Snorkeling in Japan, Part 1

These beautiful shots were taken from a beach on Akajima Island - with my amazing Olympus camera (unfortunately it leaked halfway through the day, letting me use my Best Buy warrantee... again...) but it did take some sweet shots before then!

Food in Japan

The reception and symposium dinner were both amazing - the first catered and held in the Ocean Hall at the conference center and the second held at a restaurant with traditional dancing and music. Here are some pictures from the first reception:

More Japan pictures...

Some pictures from Nago City, where our hotel was. The views are from our hotel balcony. We stayed at the Yugaf Inn, which was really nice, had great views, fantastic food for breakfast and very interesting bathrooms...
The bar pictured is the one we took over a few times for karaoke. The bartenders were so nice to a bunch of foreigners...

Japan!

Some pictures from my recent trip to Japan for the 4th CBE (chemosynthesis based ecosystems) symposium in Okinawa!


This is the beach outside one of the hotels (the Kise Beach Palace) where we crashed the first night. The net is to keep out box jellyfish, which are really poisonous, so although the water's gorgeous they don't recommend swimming in it near human settlements (where the jellyfish are worst) outside of a net.





The previous five images are from the conference center itself. It was actually held where the G8 summit was held in 2000. So beautiful!