When everything is going right, I get into a zone, a special place in which all of my relations with the canoe, the natural world and the crew are integrated. You have to be in that special place to navigate well. When you are in the zone, you feel ahead of the game. You find yourself naturally thinking about what will happen next and you are acting in the future, not reacting to things in the past. You have the star patterns in mind and you seem to know where you are even when the sky is cloudy and you can’t see the stars. You begin to anticipate the weather. It’s an awesome feeling but it’s hard to describe. It is like being inside the navigation, participating from the inside. – Nainoa Thompson

photo Sea-Water Amplification (SWA) Azores Atlantic Ocean 2025

It’s coming up to the 50th anniversary since the Polynesian canoe Hokulea first touched the ocean surface. This important and solemn event took place on March 8, 1975. Since this vessel is very important for our work and thinking about the seascape epistemilogy, we decided to write this personal text called My own Mālama Honua, My own Hōkūleʻa.

photo Sea-Water Amplification (SWA) Azores Atlantic Ocean 2025

You can read the text here: My own Mālama Honua, My own Hōkūleʻa

*The text uses photographs from our new work, which is now under development.