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This will serve as your happy Halloween update from Hōkuleʻa and Hikianalia.

The sun just set with a small green flash over our forward starboard beam. With the sun setting, we have calm seas and a steady 10-knot wind. The golden horizon blends from a soft orange to purple to blue as you look up to the heavens.

Hōkūleʻa and Hikianalia depart Nukuʻalofa in the Kindgom of Tonga and now journey to Aotearoa.

During this experience, especially in the past several days, I've been learning and fine tuning my navigation and wayfinding skills. This experience will give me the foundation that I can share with others when I go back home.

Hōkuleʻa and Hikianalia wait for favorable winds to take them to Vavaʻu, Tonga.

Navigator Kaʻiulani Murphy has an update as the wa'a prepare in Pago Pago, American Samoa.

Crewmembers are welcomed to Swains Island by the Jennings family and explore this remote atoll.

For the first time, Hōkūleʻa and HIkianalia visit Swains Island, the jewel of the Pacific.