The inn is a simple three-story whitewashed building with a red tile roof, lounging cats and hibiscus trees in the courtyard.

Gnarled old hibiscus trees arched together overhead, and the sun, filtering through their foliage, cast changing patterns of light and shade on the still water.

When he was gone, Minarii seated himself with his back to a hibiscus tree and the girl crouched beside him.

A group of women chewing betel nut in the shade of a hibiscus tree turned away from him as he passed.

"Back there, we would carve a rod from a hibiscus tree and make our fish hook with an ordinary stick pin," he said.

He found Maimiti with her baby, Charles, seated on a mat in the shade of a wild hibiscus tree.

Four gates were constructed on all sides of the wall, with hibiscus trees planted outside.

The final touch was potted hibiscus trees decorated with white lights and placed in each corner of the room.

On the seaward facing slopes are Swamp she-oak, native hibiscus tree and Pandanus palms.

The guests, gathered on a terrace beneath hibiscus trees, are more interested in each other than the show of works by Doug Edge.