Those are mighty big palm trees!

As you’ve seen from previous pictures, we have a number of large palms around the property. Most of them are coconut palms, the most common type around the island that just sprout from a fallen coconut. There are also some other types that are really pretty with kind of frillier fronds. Not sure what kind they are, but they don’t produce any coconuts. It seems the coconut palms tend to shed their old fronds more regularly than the other types of palms and so when they finally fall off, we get to drag them off to a dumping ground on the other side of the property. Those suckers are big!! The picture with me holding one of them gives you an idea of how big they are - maybe about 20-30 feet long? Probably exaggerating, but you get the idea.....and, they aren’t light - I’d say they weight about 30 -35 lbs. What’s really frustrating is when one is just hanging there but not quite ready to fall off. I swear you can swing from that thing and it still won’t let go. Unfortunately, the branch cutter we have on the property doesn’t have an extender so we can only reach to a certain height. The landscape guys that come to mow the lawn, though, have the right equipment and they’ve agreed to do this for us.