by Todd Yamashita | Nov 3, 2018 | Hikianalia Updates, Malama Honua Selects, Newsletter, Photo Galleries, Stories of Place, Teachers, World Wide Voyage
Crew blog by Andrea Buckman As we piled into trucks early one morning, our crew was excited to break away from the coast to explore new territory in the mountains of Southern California. Our destination is Caspers Wilderness Park, an 8,000 acre protected wilderness...
by Todd Yamashita | Oct 17, 2018 | Hikianalia Updates, Newsletter, Stories of Place, Teachers, Video Update, World Wide Voyage
Video update by Dr. Cathy Oliver, Hikianalia California Voyage leg two medical officer. Crew Blog By Hana Yoshihata This week, the crew had an amazing adventure to the Island of Santa Cruz, known as Limuw to the Chumash Nation. We were gifted the opportunity the...
by Todd Yamashita | Oct 16, 2018 | Crew Blogs, Hikianalia Updates, Newsletter, Photo Galleries, Stories of Place, Teachers, World Wide Voyage
By Bob Perkins As we slipped our lines from the dock at Hyde Street Pier, and looked out over San Francisco Bay toward Alcatraz Island and further north toward Hikianalia’s next port at Sausalito, the crew was excited to experience sailing “on the Bay”. In a...
by Todd Yamashita | Oct 12, 2018 | Crew Blogs, Featured, Malama Honua Selects, Newsletter, Photo Galleries, Science, Stories of Place, Teachers, World Wide Voyage
Crew blog by Matt Caires Reflections from Monterey Bay, Part One What was once a heavy supplier of sardines to the world, Monterey Bay was best known to those outside California, by the descriptions from writer John Steinbeck, who carefully described Monterey, and its...
by Todd Yamashita | Feb 23, 2018 | Featured, Hōkūleʻa History & Moʻolelo, Newsletter, Photo Galleries, Stories of Place, Teachers, World Wide Voyage
On February 12, 2018, the legendary canoe Hōkūleʻa sailed into the waters of Pearl Harbor, also known as Ke Awa Lau o Puʻuloa. Prior to mooring, crewmembers offered a hoʻokupu (customary gift) of fresh fish for one of the few remaining ancient Hawaiian fishponds in...
by Todd Yamashita | Nov 13, 2015 | Malama Honua Selects, Newsletter, Science, Stories of Place, Teachers, World Wide Voyage
Hōkūleʻa crewmembers take a tour of one of the most ecologically rich coastlines in the world, False Bay, which is designated a Mission Blue Hope Spot. Award winning documentary filmmaker, Craig Foster, educates the crew on the inhabitants of this ecosystem, and...