Waka Landing

On Wednesday 25th March we hopped on the bus and went to the Point England Reserve to welcome the waka who had sailed all the way from Hawaii using the traditional navigation, with 2000 children from the Maniakalani cluster schools.

When we got there we sat sensibly and waited for everyone to arrive and then the fun began with lots of singing, speeches and the people from the waka coming ashore onto Point England reserve.

There are lots of videos to come and information on the Maniakalani website - check them out on this link:

http://www.manaiakalani.org/our-story/malama-honua 

When the event was winding up we were able to walk down onto the beach and high five each of the crew before we left to go back to school.