Laniakea Beach

This guide to Laniakea Beach in Honolulu explains how a 1950s film crew borrowed the name from a painted sign nearby, and how, decades later in 1999, a walker named Joanne Pettigrew found a green sea turtle basking unheard-of in the open sand. It follows the volunteer effort she and NOAA scientist George Balazs built in response, and the nonprofit it grew into. Look toward the rocky shelf just offshore, where the resident honu tend to gather.