by Todd Yamashita | Jun 6, 2019 | Malama Honua, News, Newsletter, Photo Galleries, Teachers, Updates, World Wide Voyage
There is a new restoration effort to mālalma the waters of Puʻuloa (Pearl Harbor) using oysters. The U.S. Navy, O‘ahu Waterkeeper and the Pacific Aquaculture and Coastal Resources Center have seized on a novel approach using native oysters to mālama our waters here...
by Todd Yamashita | May 28, 2019 | Featured, Malama Honua, Malama Honua Selects, Newsletter, Photo Galleries, Teachers, Updates, World Wide Voyage
Native forest visit reaffirms Hawai‘i-Alaska kinship and shared commitment to ancestral knowledge and nature As a precursor to the Ho‘oilina Conference, Kamehameha Schools (KS) and the Polynesian Voyaging Society (PVS) hosted Sealaska leaders on a day trip to Hawaiʻi...
by Todd Yamashita | May 8, 2019 | Crew Blogs, Newsletter, Photo Galleries, Teachers, Updates, World Wide Voyage
Crew Blog by Michi Wong Warm is the embrace of the Lānaʻi ʻOhana. We set sail on Sunday afternoon and arrived at Mānele Bay in the dark of early morn. They were there at dock to meet us a 1:30 a.m. Beginning with oli, honi, ti leaf lei, and a steaming hot bowl of...
by Todd Yamashita | May 1, 2019 | Events, Featured, News, Newsletter, Photo Galleries, Teachers, Updates, World Wide Voyage
For those of you who didn’t get the chance to join us at the Ala Wai Community Fair & Hōkūleʻa Arrival last month, we’d like to share with you some photos from the event, that on the cusp of Earth Day, drew scores of students, community leaders, voyagers and...
by Todd Yamashita | Apr 25, 2019 | Featured, Hōkūleʻa History & Moʻolelo, Newsletter, Photo Galleries, Teachers, Updates, World Wide Voyage
When you decide to sail a Polynesian voyaging canoe from Hawaiʻi around the world, the numbers quickly become mind-boggling. Four hundred crew members traveling 42,000 nautical miles to 322 ports and 18 countries is just the beginning. When you start assessing the...
by Todd Yamashita | Dec 12, 2018 | Crew Blogs, Hikianalia Updates, Photo Galleries, Updates, World Wide Voyage
Voyagers reunite with family members and friends Polynesian voyaging canoe Hikianalia and her crew returned to Sand Island last night at approximately 10:00 p.m. Hundreds of family members of the crew and voyage supporters were at the dock of the Marine Education and...