Voyaging Overview

Polynesian Voyaging Overview

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Friends of Hui O Wa'a Kaulua Founder Involvement

NANONESIA

My interest in Polynesian Voyaging was sparked while visiting my parents a few years back at their retirement home on the Gulf Coast in Hudson, Florida, where, as an after-hours R&R activity, I got into kayaking, paddling (with camcorder) to tiny sub-tropical islands in the Gulf of Mexico. Using Google Earth to simulate flying low & slow along the coastline in an ultralight, I used maximum zoom to spot just the islands having beaches with palm trees (often given away by their tree-top shadows; the other islands being inaccessibly covered with mangrove), which turned up hundreds, if not thousands of such islands (one area in fact being named Ten Thousand Islands), most of which are uninhabited & even unnamed. Of these sojourns I wrote in the video description “Thanks to a lack of attention from boat tour operators, isles like [these] are little known & rarely visited palm-fringed jewels of pristine beauty. The intrepid paddler who makes the journey is typically rewarded with an unspoiled tropical island, [frequently] all to themselves, as well as an experience not unlike the ancient Polynesians, during their voyages of discovery, sighting & landing on an unknown island for the 1^st time” (map, video).

The Polynesian angle was strengthened after reading a gift from wife Toni, travel writer Paul Theroux’s book "The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific (wiki)", wherein Paul travels to islands not served by regular transport, paddling his open sea folding kayak, a Klepper Aerius Expedition I (Klepper is the granddaddy & legendary manufacturer of the folding kayak – in 1956 an Aerius II modified with sail & outrigger crossed the Atlantic, piloted by Dr. Hannes Lindemann, which journey made the cover of LIFE Magazine).

As the spark of my “Polynesian-lite” tiny “Voyages of Discovery” in the Gulf of Mexico was fanned, I began to fancy the area as a virtual extension to the Polynesian Kingdom of island group nations. As the names Polynesia, Melanesia & Micronesia (& even Indonesia & Meganesia) were already taken, the ideal name for this collection of really tiny islands, in combination with the concept’s virtuality, readily suggested the area be named the mythical land of Nanonesia. To further explore the virtuality of the concept, I joined the online virtual reality world “Second Life”, & on an island there purchased a beachfront property & a classic Polynesian personal sailing outrigger (a kayak modified with Dr. Lindemann's sail & outrigger), then proceeded to paddle the virtual sea (video).

POLYNESIA

The Nanonesia developments led to an interest in Polynesian canoe traditions & discovery of the Polynesian Voyaging Society (PVS) & their legendary 1975 built, “Polynesian Renaissance launching”, flagship Polynesian Voyaging Canoe Hōkūleʻa, a 62 foot full-scale performance accurate recreation of a classic Polynesian double-hulled deep ocean transoceanic voyaging canoe, of the type used in ancient times to discover & settle all the island nations of the Polynesian Triangle; she is also the 1^st such vessel built since the last of such craft were constructed at the close of the original Polynesian Voyages of Discovery era, circa 3000 BC - 1500 AD. The Polynesian Voyaging Canoe is the apex of the evolution of general canoeing by indigenous cultures, tracing back to the dawn of human history, as human migrations out of Africa, heading east & crossing India, reached eastern continental land limits where modern day Chinese-Southeast Asian borders meet the Pacific Ocean. However, migration was able to continue, during the Pleistocene Ice Age, when sea level was 150 meters lower, to cross the narrow channels from Indonesia on primitive rafts, arriving in Papua New Guinea and Australia, at that time when the two formed a single landmass, circa 50,000 BC. These early explorers are thought to be a very short, dark people, such as, & likely including, the Dravidian peoples of southern India, who contributed initial seafaring technology, developing vessels for fishing the Indian Ocean & settling Indian Ocean Islands, particularly by the subgroup Tamils who were noted seafarers. By 30,000 BC Papuans had arrived in the Solomon Islands, but by 10,000 BC rising waters had cut off Australian Aborigines & other groups, forcing sea crossings & the evolution of raft to canoe, later outfitted with outrigger, which in turn evolved into a 2^nd attached canoe, creating the double-hulled canoe (essentially a catamaran) of increasing size to handle ever deeper voyages into the Pacific. By 3000 BC Austronesians migrated from Taiwan to the Philippines and by 2000 – 1000 BC they, particularly the subgroup Lapita, mixing with Papuans to become the Melanesians, had spread eastward across Melanesia reaching the Bismarck Archipelago (1500 BC), Fiji, Tonga (1300 BC) & Samoa (1000 BC). Concurrently, groups of Austronesians & Melanesians became the Micronesians as they settled Central & Western Micronesia (1500 BC & 1000 BC respectively). As population swelled, the need to find more land to grow more food resulted in a final wave of exploration & migration from 300 BC – 900 AD, with a portion of the population voyaging east from eastern Melanesia, becoming the Polynesians, to discover & settle Tahiti, the Marquesas & Rapa Nui (300 AD), Eastern Micronesia & Hawaii (400 AD) & Aotearoa (900 AD). At the peak of these developments, the appearance of the Polynesian culture is aptly depicted by the Polynesian Renaissance’s Hawaiian artist Herb Kawainui Kāne’s paintings Discovery of Hawai’i & Ka’anapali in Ancient Times.

The Polynesian Voyaging Society & Hōkūleʻa were created largely to refute the Western “drift theories” of Thor Heyerdahl et al, which posited using rafts like Kon-Tiki to achieve Polynesian migration & settlement, which theories generally alleged that the voyagers, unaided by sailing instruments such as map, compass & sextant, were incapable of purposeful exploration & intentional navigation, of even steering a vessel, instead relegated to merely playing hapless Popeye’s pushed by currents & blown off course by winds, ending up crash-landing onto islands, but which theories were not supported by archaeological evidence. Of Heyerdahl, Polynesian Voyaging Society co-founder/1^st president & Anthropology Professor Emeritus Dr. Ben Finney writes on the Society’s archive site “Hawaiian Voyaging Traditions” webpage “Founding the Polynesian Voyaging Society; Building Hōkūle‘a” that "Thor Heyerdahl...was out to demonstrate how South American Indians could have settled Polynesia by raft...his ideas contradicted the linguistic and cultural evidence of an ultimate Southeast Asian origin of the Polynesians...Relationships evident in language and cultural traits...were not matched by island-by-island archaeological excavations demonstrating that the ancestors of the Polynesians had in fact migrated eastward into the mid-Pacific...Accordingly, archaeologists directed their efforts toward discovering the migration trail to Polynesia...The results have supported a derivation of the Polynesians from the western side of the Pacific, not their migration from the Americas as Heyerdahl claimed....Through a distinctively decorated pottery called Lapita, and associated artifacts, archaeologists have been able to trace the migration of the immediate ancestors of the Polynesians from the Bismarck Archipelago off the northeast coast of New Guinea across Melanesia to the oceanic archipelagos of Fiji, Tonga and Såmoa where they arrived around 1500 B.C. These mid-Pacific islands, and not any distant continental shore, have emerged as the long-sought homeland of the Polynesians, for excavations show that it was in this oceanic setting that ancestral Polynesian culture evolved from its Lapita roots".

The construction of Polynesian Voyaging Canoes such as those in ancient Hawai’i generally involved felling a pair of trees from the Hawaiian Koa forest for the canoe hulls, carving the hulls out from the tree trunks utilizing stone adzes, weaving Pandanus tree leaves to make sails (example; (note: one might think a more suitable sail material to be Tapa cloth, fabricated from pounding the bark of the Paper Mulberry tree found throughout Pacific islands, however, as noted in the Tapa link, “The major problem with tapa…is that the tissue loses its strength when wet and falls apart”)). Lastly, the canoe parts are lashed together with rope made from coconut fiber sennit (diagram). A good overall look at what’s involved in building the canoe is available in the Kamehameha Schools “Ulukau: The Hawaiian Electronic Library” online book Hawaiian canoe-building traditions illustrated chapters Felling, Hewing, Finishing, Tools). However, by the time Hōkūleʻa was conceived, the Hawaiian Koa forests had become so depleted as to not have Koa trees of sufficient size, & the Hawaiians themselves had lost a number of the required canoe building skills due to the passing away of the last masters of these technologies & having no written language for their preservation. As Finny further writes on the “Building Hōkūle‘a” webpage, "We would have preferred to build our canoe using stone adzes, miles and miles of coconut fiber sennit line, and other features of traditional craftsmanship. But, beyond lashing some components of the canoe with sennit made for us on remote atolls where the old men still knew how to manufacture this cordage, and making an experimental sail out of strips of pandanus matting woven specially for us on the Polynesian Outlier of Kapingamarangi, we did not attempt to build the canoe with traditional materials and methods, for we knew that to try and recreate ancient tools and lost arts would have interminably delayed our project. Instead, we used some modern tools and materials, fabricating our hulls, for example, out of frames covered with layers of plywood strips, and then lashing the hulls, decking and other structures together mostly with modern line. However, we constantly strove to make our canoe in shape and weight a "performance accurate" replica of a traditional voyaging craft that would tell us much about how ancient canoes sailed. For example, despite numerous suggestions that we should widen the stance of the hulls to enable the canoe to carry more sail, add keel fins to the hulls to enhance their ability to resist leeway, and adopt a modern sail rig for greater speed, we stuck to traditional precedents of a narrow separation between hulls, a semi-rounded hull shape and the inverted-triangle sprit sail so that our canoe would sail no better than her ancient predecessors". Later attempts to create canoes with traditional materials include the next Polynesian Voyaging Canoe built after Hōkūle‘a, as described at The Building of Hawai‘iloa (57 foot) & another, albeit for a much smaller outrigger, is described where it reads “Mauloa, a canoe built at Honaunau out of traditional materials, with native wood, sennit lashings, and a lauhala sail” at the bottom of the webpage Plants and Tools Used for Building Canoes. Scenes from Hōkūleʻa’s history are collected at the Hōkūle‘a Image Gallery.

As a result of developing interest in the Polynesian story, Toni & I spent several subsequent vacations in Hawai’i, a 2010 trip to O’ahu & Hawai’i islands & 2012 trip to Maui, tracking down all things Polynesian Voyaging, the highlight of which was a visit on-board Hōkūleʻa & afternoon sail aboard the next Polynesian double-hull canoe built after Hōkūleʻa, the Mo’olele (42 foot, built 1975).

● From our May 2010 trip to O’ahu & Hawai’i islands, to visit the 5 Polynesian Voyaging Canoes (PVC) we then knew of, Hōkūleʻa, Hawai‘iloa & Iosepa on O'ahu, Hōkūalaka‘i & Makali’i on Hawai’i, we 1^st visited Sand Island, Honolulu Harbor, Oahu, in search of the Polynesian Voyaging Society & Hōkūle‘a, where we found the Society on the 2^nd floor of the Marine Education Training Center (METC), & berthed out front, the fabled canoe, looking well worn after some 150,000 nautical miles of voyaging since 1975, as shown in Toni’s Hōkūle‘a photos. The photos were taken just after our on-board tour by Captain Mike Taylor (photo) & very shortly before her dry-dock complete disassembly/overhaul/rebuild preparation for Society’s currently underway historic project to circumnavigate the Earth, a journey comprised of 16 captains, 32 legs (2 per crew) over a 4 year, 45,000 mile journey, visiting 28 countries at 85 international ports, to promote a message of global peace & sustainability, known as the World Wide Voyage (WWV) (map). In 2012, in preparation for the WWV, Hōkūle‘a was visited & blessed by the Dalai Lama. Hōkūle‘a began her Worldwide Voyage to circumnavigate the Earth, on Wednesday, May 29, 2013. Once Hōkūle‘a reaches the historic (~ 3000 B.C.) voyaging supposed point of origin at roughly the longitude of Indonesia-Taiwan & continues toward the Indian & Atlantic Oceans, the Polynesian Renaissance will advance the culture to enter a historic new phase, “boldly going where no Polynesian Voyager has gone before”. Hōkūle‘a’s progress can be tracked on the website/blog of the Polynesian Voyaging Society. Starting roughly late December 2013 the progress may further be tracked utilizing the International Space Station installed UrtheCast Earth Camera system which provides 2 HD cameras (video, 3’ resolution, 150 clips/day; still, 16’ resolution, 1000 photos/second), downlinks to ground stations globally, streams near-live high resolution videos & photos of Earth directly to the publicly accessibly UrtheCast web platform & offers a subscription service to “subscribe to any point or region in the UrtheCast coverage area…[to] receive real-time notifications every time UrtheCast captures new imagery and video.. of that area”, as well as a “Filter…notifications” feature “to receive notifications only when imagery is captured during daylight hours”. For background on Polynesian Voyaging, a new book by Hōkūleʻa crew member and documenter Sam Low is "Hawaiki Rising: Hōkūleʻa, Nainoa Thompson, and the Hawaiian Renaissance", available through Amazon. Additional general material can be found on the homepage of my Polynesian Voyaging Canoe fundraising site Friends of Hui O Wa'a Kaulua (offering links to online video documentaries at “Resources: > Media > Documentary”) & page Voyaging Library

●● While the METC planetarium-equipped classroom provides the full suite of PVC construction/sailing/navigation training, from crew to captain & navigator, as supported by their primary self-published textbook (a copy of which I obtained), the Polynesian Voyaging Society Voyaging Manual, just down the dirt road is the companion organization Friends of Hokule‘a & Hawai‘iloa, which offers PVC construction services, all sizes, for organizations thru individuals, ranging from DIY (even providing molds for fiberglass canoe hulls) to “they’ll build it for you”, some of which ventures are profiled on their webpage Our Projects

●● To capture all the PVC-related points-of-interest, cultural resources, R&R destinations (hikes, beaches), food (kava cafés, restaurants (especially authentic indigenous, the prize being Helena's Hawaiian Food (menu)), shops & accommodations, I created a custom Google My Places Map Hawai'i - O'ahu & Hawai'i Island

● From our May 2012 trip to Maui, to visit the 6^th canoe we’d learned of the month before, we 1^st visited Lahaina’s Kamehameha Iki Park, in search of, & finding, in a large construction shed adjacent the park, Maui’s Voyaging Society, NGO Hui 'o Wa'a Kaulua (formed in 1975, the year Hōkūleʻa was launched) as the sister organization to the Polynesian Voyaging Society) & their Voyaging Canoe project, the under-construction & nearly completed, Hōkūleʻa­-class (built using Hōkūleʻa­'s plan), 62-foot sister canoe Mo'okiha O Pi'ilani (which is planned to join Hōkūle‘a on certain legs of the WWV, thereafter serving as a floating classroom teaching PVC sailing/navigation), of which we were able to get an on-board tour & take lots of camera shots, combined on a webpage of pics & video

●● From the Poly/Mela/Micro-nesian revitalization of Polynesian culture, as expressed by the pan-Pacific island nations PVC construction boom spawned from Hōkūle‘a’s 1975 Maiden Voyage, on the beach in front of Mo'okiha O Pi'ilani's construction shed is the 1^st Voyaging Canoe built after Hōkūle‘a’, the Hui 'o Wa'a Kaulua's 1975-built, 42’ double hull canoe Mo’olele (like Hōkūle‘a, still in service; "the first of several new voyaging canoes inspired by Hokule'a", as pictured in, & according to, "A Canoe Helps Hawaii Recapture Her Past", Hōkūleʻa creator Herb Kane’s article in National Geographic, Apr. 1976), which received a special blessing ceremony, also depicted in the April 1976 National Geographic). Thanks to Mo'okiha O Pi'ilani construction-completion fundraising efforts initiated by us, the visit culminated in my garnering a several hour sail aboard Mo’olele, captured in a 40 minute HD 1080p video (shot from my seat in the back of the canoe), accompanied by several HD SLR Camera stills Toni shot, combined on a webpage of pics & video

● Media (Book, Photo, Video, Craft, Art): For our Maui Canoe fundraising efforts I put together a simple, “Friends of” Google Site, to hang various reports, log progress, collect resources & the like. At the earliest fundraising step, the “Kickstarter phase”, we thought of offering Polynesian Voyaging & Cultural books & documentary videos as “Thank You” gifts for various levels of donations, so I gathered all the books & videos I learned of, collected on the “Friends of” site page Voyaging Library. A number of the video documentaries are also available for viewing online on YouTube, from the Mau Piailug Society channel (Mau was Hōkūle‘a’s 1^st navigator), which offers full length videos of The Navigators (DVD, Online) & Wayfinders (PBS, Online); also on YouTube is the Smithsonian Network’s Light at the Edge of the World: Polynesia: The Wayfinders by National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence/Explorer for the Millennium Wade Davis (DVD, Online)

●● For the Hōkūle‘a 1976 Inaugural Voyage to Tahiti, the need for a navigator trained in Polynesian celestial navigation turned up, in Micronesia, within the Yap island group, in the Caroline Islands, on the remote coral island of Satawal, the last surviving Elder Master Navigator and Voyaging Canoe builder, still young enough to sail, Mau Piailug (1932 – July 12, 2010), who had learned the art of instrument-less celestial navigation and canoe construction from his grandfather and father. Mau, via his friend Peace Corps volunteer Mike McCoy stationed on Satawal, was brought to Hawai’i & introduced to the Polynesian Voyaging Society (PVS) by Mike; Mau also taught navigation at the METC/PVS, which teaching is currently being continued by Mau’s son Sesario. Mau’s family have established on YouTube a Mau Piailug Society channel, which offers full length videos of a number of the documentary DVDs mentioned above in the “Friends of” Voyaging Library (note: The Navigators (DVD, Online (using the YouTube URL time code parameter “#t=##m##s” we can skip directly to the clips where Mau, on the beach by his hut on Satawal, teaches navigating by stars & ocean swells)

●● In Hawai’i Mau passed his knowledge on to protégé Nainoa Thompson (now Polynesian Voyaging Society Executive Director) & after Navigator/Captain Nainoa had captained Hōkūle‘a retracing the primary ancient Polynesian Voyages of Discovery & attained excellence in Navigation, Nainoa sailed Hōkūle‘a to Satawal where Mau conferred upon him the title of “Pwo (Master) Navigator ‘with magic’" rank, accomplished by Mau executing the rarely performed Pwo Ceremony, of which Pwo Navigators have said, "Pwo is about light and once you accept Pwo you can never do harm, only good...[during the ceremony initiates are rubbed, according to Dr. Sam Low "with a sacred medicine, first on the forehead, then on the heart"]...the medicines are given to the heart and to the mind for the navigator to have light, so he performs with the light, never darkness... Following this, the incoming navigators are given a special coconut to drink -nuun-lesseram or 'coconut in the light'...The coconut will give light to the new navigator...The central thing about navigation is culture. It involves respect, love, humility, and at the center of it is light. You have the light in your heart and your head " -- Lambert Lokopwe, initiated pwo navigator. The Last Navigator author Steve Thomas, in the 1980s stayed with Mau on Satawal for several years & took an extraordinary set of photos of all aspects of the culture, then relatively intact & unchanged from ancient times, a pristine Pacific paradise, the photos stored on the University of Hawaii at Manoa website as the Steve Thomas Traditional Micronesian Navigation Collection, variously organized including by Category, sprinkled with such stunners as Houses on Eauripik

●● For Kickstarter we were required to make a succinct 30 second video fundraiser pitch, for whose final format we decided on a simple slideshow of stunning Polynesian art paintings summarizing the whole of the Polynesian historical story in 7 slides. The artwork was provided by 2 famed Hawaiian artists, the 1^st from NGO Hui member local Maui artist Loren Adams, who gave us permission to use his artist impression of Mo'okiha O Pi'ilani, Hōkūleʻa et al at the upcoming launch of the World Wide Voyage, as depicted in his painting of Mo'okiha; the 2^nd from Elected Living Treasure/Chosen Po’okela (Champion) of Hawaii, Artist/Historian/Author & General Designer/Builder & 1^st captain of Hōkūle’a (1975 maiden voyage), Herb Kawainui Kane (June 21, 1928 – March 8, 2011). As Herb had recently passed, our Maui Voyaging Society Hui O Wa'a Kaulua Leader Kimokeo ("Kimo") Kapahulehua, subject of the documentary "Family of the Wa'a" & whose uncle was Hōkūle‘a 1976 Inaugural Voyage Captain Elia David Kuʻualoha "Kawika" Kapahulehua, contacted the Herbert K. Kane Family Trust, who graciously granted us permission to utilize a number of Herb’s paintings, drawing mostly from his catalog of canoe paintings, among his most stunning being The Discovery of Hawai’i, Ka’anapali in the Ancient Time & Hōkūle‘a II. Toni completely edited & produced the video, uploaded to YouTube as Mo'okiha O Pi'ilani Fundraiser Project Video

●● Joining Herb’s canoe paintings are an impressive set of canoe models by Hawaiian model maker Francis Pimmel, as shown in his works (Facebook)

● Culture (Core Values): During our stays we learned of the Polynesian Culture Core Values, & how they’re anchored in sustainability, they being Mālama Kai ("Care of the Sea", (Polynesian Voyaging being the prime methodology (sailing with no engine fuels/oils/sounds polluting the ocean)) among other techniques such as Fishpond) & Mālama 'Āina ("Care of the Land", as in Ahupua‘a (land division for crops) for Valley, Coast & Island). The Ahupua‘a for Valley is particularly impressive in its layout of rotating crops from volcano peak, down along & between volcanic ridge valleys, to the seashore, & had to be, & was, worked out over millennia, to scale population support to island resources (to visualize the workings of the system, Kamehameha Schools offers an Ahupua‘a Poster & companion "manual for use with the Ahupua`a Poster", Life in Early Hawai`i: The Ahupua`a). The same was true during the original Polynesian Voyages of Discovery in settlement of the South Pacific (~3000 BC - 1500 AD), on the Voyaging Canoes themselves – like space travelers to a new world, the food had to be worked out to sustain the crew members & settler families during voyages of often unknown distance & duration. In fact, the purpose & top goal of World Wide Voyage is to promote this Polynesian message of sustainability, by implementing these Mālama techniques around the world. Additionally, the Polynesian Voyaging Society Core Values are:

●● Aloha: To love

●● Malama: To care for

●● 'Imi 'Ike: To seek knowledge

●● Lokomaika'i: To share with each other

●● Na'au Pono: To nurture a deep sense of justice

●● Olakino Maika'i: To live healthily

● Blog, Website & YouTube Channel: Upon our return from the May 2010 trip to O’ahu & Hawai’i islands, I wrote up an overview of the voyaging scene & our explorations for my international school alumni group blog which I administer/develop, the Villa St. Jean blog project, by posting the report to our Travel page section Sailing; this write-up includes information on a unique navigation technique, still unknown to Western navigation, called “te lapa” (“underwater lightening”), where it reads "The navigation techniques further involve reading...especially, when the sky is overcast, the mysterious te lapa (underwater streaks of lightening-like light radiating 120-150 km from an island, disappearing closer in (write-up, R&D+video, voyaging))". Upon our return from the May 2012 trip to Maui, for the Maui canoe fundraiser I set up the website Friends of Hui O Wa'a Kaulua & an accompanying Friends of Hui O Wa'a Kaulua YouTube Channel (beside the 1^st 2 videos of Mo'okiha O Pi'ilani & Mo’olele, the 3^rd is a rather exciting 40 minute video I was able to shoot of a Hawaiian Sailing Canoe Association (HSCA) Inter-Islands Voyaging Leg: Hawaii (Big) Island-Maui-Molokai, hosted by our Maui Voyaging Society Hui O Wa'a Kaulua Leader Kimokeo ("Kimo") Kapahulehua (also Kihei Canoe Club President & Na Mokupuni Na Kupuna Hawaiian Outrigger Canoe Voyaging Society Founder), as the fleet of crafts, at mid leg over 2 days, arrived at & then departed from Maui during their multi-island run (video)

● Aloha Festivals: Upon completing the “Friends of” website, the annual Aloha Festival was soon to appear in the San Francisco Bay Area, being a gathering of the whole of the Oceania nation’s Pacific Islander’s expatriate community in California. Seeking to expand the community base for the canoe fundraiser, from the Kickstarter media I printed off a flyer, attended the event, passed out a large number of flyers & in so doing connected up with pretty much the entire, & especially the core, organizations of the Pacific Islanders community here on the mainland west coast, as describe on the “Friends of” page Fundraiser Project Pitch Flyer Distribution at Aloha Festival. Encouraged by the Hawaiian cultural principle folk I met at the festival to switch from visitor to exhibitor, I applied for exhibitor booths at the next couple of festivals, got a 10’x10’ canopy tent, put together a suite of display boards, model canoe exhibits & a media center theater playing Voyaging DVDs on a Blu-ray player HD TV, joined by an iPad providing online donations through the Hui O Wa'a Kaulua's website's "Donate" webpage, via WiFi connectivity supported by my Android phone’s Mobile Hotspot feature, as described on the “Friends of” page Fundraiser Project Pitch Public Events

Alrighty Then.

Mahalo,

Cliff

Friends of Hui O Wa'a Kaulua

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