Residents adamant about saving Whitsunday coconut trees | Whitsunday Times

ELIZABETH Demartini remembers watering the first coconut palms on Coconut Grove and the Airlie Beach foreshore when she was four years old.

“So I really want them to stay,” she told Tuesday night’s first community consultation meeting about how the council manages its 975 coconut trees.

Mayor Jennifer Whitney said in her opening address she had never intended to cut the trees down, before excusing herself for another meeting and giving the floor to parks and gardens manager Scott Hardy.