The winds don't push the fruits very fast however. Southerly winds have been so strong this summer that there have even been reports of coconuts as far north as Maine this summer. These winds are also the reason Portuguese Man O'War jellyfish come our way and sadly are the cause of so much plastic waste turning up on local sands. The sustained southerly winds we've experienced this summer are pushing floating debris like fallen coconuts up from the tropics and depositing them on New England beaches. Mooney says the foreign fruit are likely from Florida or the Bahamas and that it's actually wind that's taken this far. Where Are The Coconuts Found in Rhode Island Coming From? So when he came across three in one summer, it was very unusual. Mooney told us that Geoff Dennis, who came across and photographed the coconut seen above, walks the Little Compton shoreline every day, all-year round and has only found about 12 total coconuts over the last 20 years. Many pointed out that the Gulf Stream current could easily bring such fruit to our Northern shores, but according to Tim Mooney, Marketing & Communications Manager at The Nature Conservancy, that's probably not what happened.
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