The ngalawa is a traditional, double-outrigger canoe of the swahili people living in Zanzibar and the Tanzanian coast.

The Honokōhau boat harbor provides a launching area for traditional canoes, fishing boats, Scuba diving and snorkeling tours of the area.

Modern hybrids can combine the elegance and style of traditional wooden canoes with such benefits as modern materials can provide.

Brass bugles, swapped for traditional canoes with Italian soldiers more than half a decade ago, were blown in celebration.

Participants learn traditional canoe carving and decorating, and learn to work together as a "canoe family".

Pack your binoculars and observe vast flocks of birds from a traditional pirogue (traditional canoe).

They employ the use of a one-blade paddle, usually a little shorter than used in a more traditional canoe.

Before modern highways and bridges were built, the only means of crossing the lake, other than the traditional canoe, was by steamboat, and, later, by ferry.

For the last 20 years, the study and painstaking reconstruction of these traditional canoes has come to symbolize the revival of Hawaiian culture.

Fishermen harvest their catch in the waters near the coast, using the traditional, small seagoing canoe, to which an outboard motor has been added.