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Master navigator Hector Busby created a life size star compass as a gift to future navigators and sailors in Aotearoa and throughout the Pacific – all for the continuation of voyaging.

I believe kids are the only hope for the future. All the physical things will be gone someday, but our kids will be left along with natural environment that we are going to leave. I want to leave it better than what we have right now.

As their mālama honua journey throughout the Pacific comes to a close the crews made time to mālama the waʻa that have sustained them – over 3,500 miles thus far!

Crewmembers welcome the Whangarei community onboard Hōkūleʻa and HIkianalia as education outreach continues.

Hailing from Yokosuka, Japan, Saki Uchida is one of the most seasoned crewmembers having sailed from Hawai'i through French Polynesia to Samoa now onto Aotearoa.

A marine acoustic device onboard Hikianalia will lend insights into the amount and impact of anthropogenic sounds to the world's oceans.