March 30, 2015 Today was our last workday on the Hikianalia, and I feel like we got a lot accomplished. All we really did was simplify our procedures for our experiments to make it as easy as possible for the crew to perform our tests and collect data from around the world on their voyage. They will be testing water temperature, salinity, pH, UVA and UVB radiation, and gamma radiation once a day (hopefully) on their worldwide voyage. Honestly, I was feeling pretty emotional when it was time to leave the boats. We spent 3 entire days of this trip on the Hikianalia figuring out how we were going to set up our experiments. We put a lot of our time and energy into this boat, and leaving it felt like saying goodbye to a friend that you know you probably won’t see again. It was sad to say the least. Next we chilled on the Hokule’a one last time, which felt even more emotional. We are some of the very few people in the entire world who ever have or ever will sail the Hokule’a and that is something I will always remember and always be extremely proud of. Saying goodbye to the Hokule’a was hard. It’s such a big deal just that we were one it, but it was more than that. We sailed it. We were the crew. We set up the sails. We took down the sails. We helped pack food for the next voyage. We loaded water onto it. We set up experiments for the crew to perform not their voyage. We had a connection with the actual crew that will be sailing on it. In only a few days we made such a big connection to this wa’a, and saying goodbye was a very hard thing to do. -Noeau Machado
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Cindy Machado
3/30/2015 01:04:35 am
This is such a wonderful opportunity; it's hard to imagine that you have actually been able to be a part of something this amazing.
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