by Bryson Hoe | May 15, 2015 | Education, Newsletter, Teachers, Updates, World Wide Voyage
Washington, D.C. – Nainoa Thompson was honored at the 2015 Peter Benchley Ocean Awards ceremony yesterday alongside Prince Albert II of Monaco and other awardees at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington DC. President of the Polynesian Voyaging Society and...
by Bryson Hoe | May 14, 2015 | Teachers, Updates, World Wide Voyage
Written by Joia Karen Holman Today we continued our final preparations continued today before our departure for Sydney. We made repairs to the canvas that shelters our sleeping area, rebuilt the rescue ladder that is used to climb back onboard the canoe from the...
by Bryson Hoe | May 12, 2015 | Education, ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi, Teachers, Updates, World Wide Voyage
English Aloha kākou, here we are tied up in Coffs harbor, Australia after 12 days of going across the Tasman sea from Aotearoa to here. We came here as originally planned, but we’re planing on spending a few extra days here and waiting for this big approaching weather...
by Bryson Hoe | May 12, 2015 | Education, Teachers, Updates, World Wide Voyage
Written by Joia Karen Holman We are here in a quaint seaside town known as Coffʻs Harbour, where we have been warmly welcomed and provided for. It is a perfect place for us to care for Hōkūleʻa and prepare for our voyage to Sydney. Today we did a major clean out of...
by Bryson Hoe | May 11, 2015 | Education, Teachers, Updates, World Wide Voyage
On May 10, 2015 (HST), Hōkūleʻa successfully arrived into Coffs Harbor, Australia. Bruce Blankenfeld served as the captain and Kaleo Manuiwa Wong as the navigator for this segment of the Mālama Honua Worldwide Voyage. “We would like to celebrate the fantastic...