Malama Honua and voyaging canoes are embraced

One night several weeks ago, while on watch aboard the double-hulled voyaging canoe Hokule'a, navigator Kalepa Baybayan caught me not paying attention to the deck. Instead my eyes were glued to the sky.But on a voyaging canoe that's totally OK. In the remote Pacific there's a moment after the sun sets and before the moon rises where the clear night sky is impossibly full of stars -- so many that they blend into clouds streaking across the heavens. You can't help but gape at what you're seeing above.Baybayan, a navigator-in-residence at the 'Imiloa Astronomy Center, pointed at a patch of star cloud in between Hokule'a's two masts.\There