It was another hard-to-get-through day as a smaller group of family and friends joined together at Kailua Beach Park to say aloha to Marty McClain.

In this photo, Marty’s wife, Wendy, holds the ti leaf wrapped container high overhead as the canoe is launched and friends shouted a last goodbye. Two canoes made the short trip to the calm waters just inside Popoia or “Flat Island”.

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