We live on the third floor. Apartment 3D if you're ever in the neighborhood and feel like visiting. It's actually the fourth floor since the ground floor doesn't count around here. That puts our view right at the frond level of a full grown coconut palm.
For the past few moths we have been watching some coconuts ripen on the trees outside our kitchen window. The other morning I heard some rustling outside the window. When I looked outside I saw this guy crouched in the tree. Just your friendly neighborhood coconut harvester and palm tree pruner. He climbed up and down with the help of a rope (and possibly some invisible limbs).
He was happy to let me take his picture because Enzo was with me, waving, and being uncharacteristically friendly. I think Enzo was very impressed. A new standard has been set for climbing skills.
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After living here a few months I decided that I needed my own machete to hack into coconuts. I felt like a shady character, going to the hardware store, asking for a machete- but it was pretty fun to have. You need to get one, and then you can just toss your kids out into the tree to get the coconuts for you.
That is awesome! Much better that almost being hit on the head by a falling coconut which almost happened to me when I was a little kid in Tahiti.
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