We’ve had some wild weather here this past week or so, the kind of wet and windy days that make even me feel sorry for people here on holiday. That’s not why people come to Hawaii.
On one of those days, the winds were so fierce, they stripped one side of the giant mango tree in the yard of all its fruit, together with several branches, and bounty of leaves. These photos show how the yard looked when I got home! The bulk of the fruit was still rock hard so that even the pigs didn’t venture out for them!
Graham's Island 
Oh what a shame and a lot of clean up, too. At least the tree protects that side of the house. Funny, I’d have thought the pigs ate anything.
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Mostly they will, but hard fruit has few rewards for them. I think they know to wait a few days and the fruit will be more palatable. They’ve been around more lately. I just shooed 20 or more away!
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That is a lot of mangoes to clean up, or wait for the pigs to smell them
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The pigs have found them now as have a good variety of birds.
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I guess you’ll wait until the stench makes you do a clean up
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Actually, there’s never been any bad smell from the fallen mangoes, possibly because the wind tends to blow strongly here!
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That’s a bonus
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That is one huge mango tree! Will it fruit again this year? xx
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Undoubtedly! We get a couple of crops a year. This one was particularly large.
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That’s an enormous amount! Shame for them to go to waste
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We’ve had gleaners come in a collect them for food drives, but I’m not sure they’re still doing that, and these were so unripe, they might not have been suitable.
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