The palms are some 30 feet high and there are two of them. The procedure:
Climb up the palm barefooted, of course...
Grip the trunk tightly with your feet...
Hack off the cluster of coconuts...
And lower carefully with a rope. This isn't the time to just toss them down...they are very heavy...
The father supervises the sons....
And that's all there is to it! These will probably be going to the tourist area where they are opened by machete and sold to the tourists to enjoy the coconut juice inside...
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Larry, At first I thought the rope the man had was to secure himself to the tree in case he fell - but then it looks like it was to lower the coconuts to the ground. Wow!
We planted a coco-nano, that is, a dwarf coconut. Have you ever had the coconuts fall from the tree? I didn't want to have a problem with that, so we went with the dwarf tree instead.
Awesome photos!
Yep, they fall all the time. That's why it was nice to get them down. Indra took the pics.
Our cocos are overflowing..usually coco guy comes and gets them...but you just reminded me that my trees are sagging under the weight....Coco guy, come on down here!
How interesting! He must be a pretty good tree climber! Not the sort of thing you see up here in Canada.
I can't even imagine shinnying my big ass up a coconut tree. That man should be in the next Olympics. And barefooted? All I can think of looking at that picture is the prospect of getting some tiny little slice of something dug deep into my skin, splinter style.
So did you get to keep any? I really want to get a house with coconut trees in the yard ~ or some kind of trees ~ but I'd hate for one of the terriers to get brained by a big honkin' nut falling on a teensy doggy head.
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