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Hōkūleʻa- “Star of Gladness”
Hōkūleʻa- “Star of Gladness”

This summer has brought a lot of excitement to the Hawaiian Islands with the recent return of Hokuea. The Hōkūleʻa is a replica of the traditional Polynesian voyaging canoes. She was first launched in March 1975. In 1976 she made her maiden voyage to Tahiti departing from Honolua Bay in Hawaii and returned. This voyage was completed exclusively using Polynesian voyaging techniques, such as star mapping, wind and weather, cloud formations, movement of currents, wave patterns, and the flight of birds.

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Conservation and EducationTrilogy Excursionsmaui, hawaii, tahiti, Polynesian wayfinding, HokuleaComment
Coral Health with EOR and the Westin Nanea Ocean Villas
Coral Health with EOR and the Westin Nanea Ocean Villas

With the start of the fall season, Trilogy is back to hosting floating workshops and reef cleanups. For the month of September, Trilogy hosted the non-profit Eyes of the Reef (EOR) for a workshop on coral health. The corporate sponsor was the Westin Nanea Ocean Villas and the food was provided by Trilogy Excursions.

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Blue'Aina, Conservation and EducationTrilogy Excursionscleanup, maui, hawaii, Eyes of the Reef, westinComment
Getting Dirty in the Waikamoi Preserve
Getting Dirty in the Waikamoi Preserve

Waikamoi Preserve provides an important sanctuary for hundreds of native Hawaiian plants and animals. It’s high elevation rain forest and alpine shrubland are home to 12 different native bird species, seven of them are endangered. The preserve shelters a large variety of native ferns, herbs, shrubs and trees that reflect the biodiversity of Maui. Many are rare plants unique to East Maui, including members of the Lobelia and Geranium families.

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Conservation and EducationTrilogy Excursionsconservation, invasive, forest, nature conservancy, hawaiiComment
Waiehu Beach Clean-Up
Waiehu Beach Clean-Up

Waiehu Beach is known as one of the dirtiest beaches on Maui. Due to the direction it faces, trash continuously washes up on shore. Especially micro plastics. Micro plastics are generally the size of a penny or smaller. Our volunteers managed to get 5 bags full of trash raining in size from micro plastic to large fishing nets which had to be cut free. 

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Blue'Aina, Conservation and EducationTrilogy Excursionsmaui, volunteer, Reef cleanups in Maui, Blue'Aina reef cleanup, Micro PlasticComment
Trilogy's Blue'Aina Campaign and Joe Pluta Realty team up to clean the reef and raise $1000 for West Maui charity
Trilogy's Blue'Aina Campaign and Joe Pluta Realty team up to clean the reef and raise $1000 for West Maui charity

Waves broke in the harbor channel. Volunteers picked up 4 large bags of trash from the Lahaina Harbor. It was the largest north swell of the winter season so far and the first Blue'Aina of 2016. 

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Blue'Aina, Conservation and EducationTrilogyblue aina campaign, blue'aina, joe pluta realty, reef cleanups in maui, voluntourism, volunteer in maui, hawaiian island humpback whale national marine sanctuary, humpback whales in mauiComment
Maui Brewing Company and Trilogy Excursions’ Blue’Aina Event Raise Money for Maui’s Mooring System and Clean the Reef of Marine Debris
Maui Brewing Company and Trilogy Excursions’ Blue’Aina Event Raise Money for Maui’s Mooring System and Clean the Reef of Marine Debris

Marine debris is a problem that just keeps getting bigger and bigger. Fortunately, there are people that are willing to do something about it. As a part of International Coastal Cleanup, the Blue ‘Aina Campaign hosted an underwater reef clean up at Mala Wharf on Sunday, September 20th, with 60 volunteers.

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Blue'Aina, Conservation and EducationTrilogymaui brewing company, blue aina campaign, reef cleanup, coral reefs, coral reefs of maui, coral reef health, volunteer, single use plastic, international coastal cleanupComment
Coral Reef CSI at Olowalu?
Coral Reef CSI at Olowalu?

Last weekend, Riley Coon, Trilogy’s Director of Operations and Kelly Montenero, Trilogy's Marine Conservation and Education Director, got to learn about how to conduct a coral reef forensics assessment- finding out the “whodunnit” amongst the various threats that corals here in Hawai’i face. 

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Conservation and EducationTrilogybest snorkeling on Maui, citizen science, conservation, coral reef health, Ecotourism, Hawaii, Maui, Maui coral reefs, Maui Nui Marine Resource Council, Olowalu, Trilogy MauiComment