by hokulea | Aug 7, 2023 | Moananuiākea Voyage, Newsletter
Hawaiʻi’s iconic voyaging canoe Hōkūleʻa arrived at Heritage Harbor at the Vancouver Maritime Museum yesterday at 10:00 am (PST), the last port for Leg 5 of Moananuiākea Voyage around the Pacific. The crew was received by Lamxacha Siyám Mike Billy, esteemed Squamish...
by hokulea | Aug 6, 2023 | Crew Update, Moananuiākea Voyage, Newsletter
August 13, 2023 | Leg 6, Day 6. Salt Spring Island, B.C. The crew woke up to crisp cool air and beautiful sunny skies above Salt Spring Island this morning. Not long after sunrise, visitors from the local town of Ganges began to trickle onto the dock, eager to find...
by hokulea | Aug 2, 2023 | Crew Update, Moananuiākea Voyage, Newsletter
August 2, 2023 | Leg 5, Day 20. The crew woke up in the quiet and stillness of the early morning to prepare for our departure from Alert Bay. We were all pleasantly surprised by the absence of fog from the horizon, signaling a clear morning for the long day we had...
by hokulea | Aug 1, 2023 | Crew Update, Moananuiākea Voyage, Newsletter
August 1, 2023 | Leg 5, Day 19. A thick fog was sitting over the water this morning when I woke and looked out from the small hotel where our crew had been staying in Alert Bay. While some of the crew continued coordinating voyage logistics, several of us prepped the...
by hokulea | Jul 12, 2023 | Moananuiākea Voyage, Newsletter
Hōkūleʻa was greeted by tribal leaders and hundreds of community members as she arrived at the Haida village of Old Masset (Gaw) in Haida Gwaii, an archipelago in British Columbia, Canada, yesterday evening. After two months sailing through Southeast, Alaska, the...