A community-led effort on Oʻahu’s West side to bring back the limu, coral and fish of our coastline, guided by science and the ʻike of those who came before us.
Sixty concrete reef units now sit on the seafloor south of Kalaeloa Harbor. Designed to soften incoming waves and protect the shoreline, they are also built to become habitat over time. Hoʻōla Hāniʻo serves as the community’s cultural and marine monitors through the Kalaeloa Hybrid Reef Monitoring Hui.
The work began with limu. Today it reaches from the shoreline to the reef.
Most days are open to all ages and experience levels. Our team will show you what to do on site.
Each kapu names something we cannot live without. Each kānāwai, drawn from traditional ʻōlelo noʻeau, tells us how to care for it.
“Whenever anybody from Honokai went down there and went fishing, we would all be together… those were happy times being at the ocean.”Naomilani Delos Santos · Honokai Hale
We’re building an archive of memories from the families who grew up on this coast. Every story helps us understand what Hāniʻo was, and what it can be again.
