Husking Coconuts

 Last night, our neighbors all got together in our parking lot to husk coconuts. One of our neighbors lived in Hawaii for a long time, so he taught us how to husk them. This is Josh knocking down coconuts from a tree in our yard. Every time he smacked the tree, a bunch of ants fell on him. He got bit pretty good.

 To get the husks off the coconuts, you take a sturdy stick and make it into a spear (our neighbor used a machete to make the spear tip). Then you pound the spear through the coconut until it cracks open the husk.

 This is some husk that Josh pulled off of his coconut.

 In this picture, you can kind of see the coconut inside. It's much smaller than you would think, because the husk makes the entire thing look so big.

 This is Josh with a machete. He was cracking open the coconut to get to the fruit inside. The trick is to just crack it so that all the coconut water inside won't spill out, and then you can drink it. But he actually hit it way too hard and all the coconut water spilled out. It was funny.

Here is the lovely coconut that Josh husked! I can't believe that those just grow right in our yard.