Fort Frederikstad on the western part of the island.
Here it is! Rum Rum Rum Rum!
Entrance to Cruzan rum distillery. Flags represent all the different occupiers of St. Croix over the years.
Look at the actual Cruzan distillery operations.
House on the Cruzan plantation
Mixture of wooden and plastic barrels used to store rum at Cruzan rum distilerry
Here they are - the former whiskey barrels now being used to store rum at the Cruzan rum distillery
Large barrels storing rum before shipping to Miami for bottling at the Cruzan distillery
Looking back on the entrance of Fort Christiansvaern
View outside Fort Christiansvaern
View from window of Fort Christiansvaern
Near the fort in Christiansted
Building in ruins near downtown Christiansted
Sugar mill or lighthouse in downtown Christiansted
View from the dive boat returning to the Christiansted harbor.
Eastern most point in the US is on St. Croix. Photo from Rahul.
Sunrise at Point Udall. Photo taken by Rahul Vaze who was crazy enough to get up this early.
Divi property from the far end. The structure on top of the hill is owned by a wealthy person.
View of the Divi from the pier. The hotel was literally right on the beach.
View from the beach of the Divi's outdoor bar and sailboat rental areas.
View the other direction of the hotel and beach. Photo from Rahul.
The pool at the Divi.
The pool during the day. Sunday reception and Tuesday banquet were held under the tents.
Walkway in front of the hotel next to the beach.
The conference in action. Ok, it's blurry but was shot without a flash.
The Monday evening panel was a smashing success!
View from the back on Tuesday. Perhaps the only complaint at the conference was the long and narrow dimensions of the room. Of course, there was the super cold A/C and the lack of sound on Monday...
Setting up for the Monday night buffet.
Randy, Sanjay, and Anant at the Monday poster session - no posters in sight!
Roxana and Bharti relaxing after the poster session.
Bharti, Massimo, and Martin
Dr. Paulraj and Nimi
Robert, Rohan, Alex, and Angel
Anna and Ananthram a.k.a. Swami
Akbar making a point - no doubt about something that is completely irrelevant.
Bob, Tim, Sayeed, and Akbar
Dongning, Wei, and Lang.
Angel and Alex.
Randy, Sanjay, and Anant after eating having retired to the table.
Massimo, Martin, Aylin, Jennifer, Roxana, Pia, Rohan, and Garima
Asif, Akbar, and Jennifer, just after the cow-story.
This was the Monday evening after party on the deck overlooking the pool.
Preparation for the Tuesday evening banquet. Mugs with St. Croix and Carribean themes were given to everyone who attended.
Closeup of the table with mugs.
Banquet about to begin.
The crowd gathers, waiting for food.
The band that played for the Tuesday banquet. Someone requested salsa but they didn't oblige.
Setting up the tables.
Just before the Tuesday banquet.
View of the Divi from the banquet.
Steve and Ramya helped with registration.
Dinner is about over now. The thought occurs that I should have taken more photos.
Jeff, Catherine, Bharti, and Nihar. Notice the large number of empty glasses on the table.
Norman, Michael, and Chris in the back.
Aylin, Massimo, and Roxana
The Pina Colada machine was a big hit especially with Dongning, Sanjay, and Angel
Nihar and Bharti
Just started distributed the cigars. Now where did I put the lighter?
Which one to pick? Ashton VSG's are so tasty.
Angel in the foreground lighting up, Oussama in the background,
Is it really lit?
Yep, seems lit.
Taking a cool puff.
After hours cigar smoking.
Chris applying the proper technique to light a cigar with a torch lighter.
Photo wins the award for the most serious stare by Ananthram.
Ananthram and Chris, no doubt discussing MANETs.
Rahul, Mario, Daniel, and Bernard. Rahul took some great photos at the event but will remain anonymous.
Marios, Daniel, and Bernard.
Angel and Daniel. Angel was making a lot of friends at the workshop.
Helmut schooling everyone on cigar lighting technique. Nihar, Akbar, Daniel, and Jennifer looking on.
The cigar smoking session just underway.
Another shot.
A grainy look at the cigar smoking session at CTW. Vahid, Nihar, Daniel, Martin, Bernard, Renaldo, Sofiene, Angel, Helmut, Marios, Robert, and Aylin.
Most with cigars in mouth. A grainy look at the cigar smoking session at CTW. Jennifer, Renaldo, Sofiene, Alex, Daniel, Nihar, Angel, Martin, Helmut, and Robert.
Helmut making a point to Anna and Alex in the post-cigar party on the beach.
A typical IEEE conference.
The post banquet post cigar after party on the beach. Many hours after the bar had closed. Many people returned from their rooms for this event, with rum and diet coke (decaf or course, we have to get up early for the next session).
Turtle digging something out of the coral.
Spotted grouper and what I think are cardinal fish.
Some nice coral, fans, and tubes.
Stingray.
More of those cardinal fish.
Some first time divers about to take their introductory dives.
On the way to ocean.
Angel Lozano
Angel Lozano and Robert Heath
Typical view of the reef about 40 feet down.
Another typical view from 40 feet. Note all the different kinds of coral and sponges.
A small jelly.
French grunt - I think.
Beautiful pair of foureye butterfly fish.
Same pair of foureye butterfly fish.
Angel hovering.
Green moray eel.
Snorkeling off of the divi.
Star fish about 20 feet from the beach at the Divi.
