Bart Bear's Blog

Look what Scruffy and I found the morning we visited Nanoyakoto island. It is a coconut palm just beginning to grow. You can see the coconut half-buried in the sand and the tree sprouting from the end of the nut. Coconuts are some of the biggest seeds in the world and they are built for travelling. They can float across big oceans and start growing whenever they are washed up on dry land, so you find coconut palms growing all around the tropical areas of the world. Did you know that every part of a coconut tree is used by island people? You can eat the coconuts and part of the tree, drink the "milk" from the inside of fresh nuts (I don't like it, it's yucky), the husk of the nut makes fine ropes, the wood from the tree trunk is used for building and the leaves can be made into baskets and hats and all sorts of things. Scruff and I hope that this little tree gets to grow tall and have lots of nuts, but Dad thinks it mightn't be allowed to because it is growing in the corner of some steps. I would move the steps if it was up to me.

Labels: Captain Cook, cruising, Fiji