On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 21:44:36 -0400, "Jean B." > wrote:

>
>> Settlers to Hawaii came from the Marquesas, probably, and they brought
>> all the food plants and animals that they were used to. Hawaii was
>> quite barren and there was really nothing to eat once they landed. It
>> is not known if coconuts were even growing here when they arrived
>> about 1100 or 1200 years ago. (No recorded history:<)
>>
>> They brought along pigs and everything they needed for a life
>> elsewhere.
>>
>> aloha,
>> Cea
>
>Can't coconuts ride the waves and plant themselves near the shore?

Yes, but it is not known if they reached the "most isolated place on
earth"--which is what our tiny group of islands is known as. They'd
have to really be magical--- but again, there is no history of what
was here before the travelers from the Marqueasa- found when they
arrived. Hawaii was a fairly new (geologically) place. They did bring
coconuts so we do have them- a lot of them.

aloha,
Cea