We've been having a grand time showing Walt and Jenny around our "country." These Eureka CA friends are about the 13th visitors. Some of our guests stayed for one or two nights and others stayed for a few weeks. Until you have been here, you can't really believe how really beautiful it is, (even though we don't have white sand beaches) or that is really does rain mostly at night, or that we really do live in a rain forest. 
Since reading Sam Low's book Hawaiiki Rising, and hearing Sam and Nainoa Thompson speak last year, we have been attending the "Wayfinding Talks" presented at the Imiloa Astronomy Center in Hilo. Tomorrow we will attend the program presented by Pwo Navigator Kalepa Baybayan who will share how the ancient traditions of the Polynesian navigators are being practiced by the Polynesian Voyaging Society on their current worldwide voyage.
Kalepa has been sailing with all the major voyages of the Hokule'a and Honuakai and he is currently serving as Navigator in Residence at Imiloa Astronomy Center of Hawaii. In 2007, Baybayan and four other Hawaiian men were initiated into the order of Pwo, a 2,000 year old society of traditional deep-sea navigators. For more information on this outstanding cultural adventure, visit the link below.
http://www.samlow.com/HawaiikiRising.htm
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