The Honu Collection #19: Hiwahiwa
Artist: Jason O'Rourke
September 2019
Edition: 1/1 NFT
License: Extended Editorial
The graphic appears on the back of Mālama i nā Honu volunteer shirts: "Hiwahiwa would go." The tracking on the map is her path to the nesting grounds a few years ago.
Apparently, she went. In 2022, Hiwahiwa was once again fitted with a GPS transponder to track her trip from Oahu's Laniakea Beach to the nesting grounds on the French Frigate Shoals of the Northwest Hawaiian islands and she only recently arrived.
The Honu Collection is curated from almost 20 years living in Hawaii. I photographed these Honu (Hawaiian green sea turtles) on Oahu, Maui, Kauai, and the Bi...