Today, Labor Day 2007, we took a picnic lunch
with us and traveled to Geneva, AL to see a 370
year old live oak tree in Robert Fowler Memorial Park on the Choctawhatchee River banks. It was a cloudy, below 100 degree day and standing under the giant oak, you could feel several degrees cooler.
We ate our lunch at a picnic table in the park and watched people fishing in the river and a swamp nearby. I saw an alligator sunning in the swamp!
By this time I was ready to leave. We were too close to the swampy area.
A plaque, placed on the site by the Ala. Forestry Comm. in 1987 recognized that this tree was there in 1776 when the Constitution of the US was signed. The town of Geneva was located along the river in the area near the tree until floods forced the town to relocate and a levee built between the town and the river.
James and I are standing at a point where the Choctawhatchee River joins the Pea River coming down from Elba and they flow to the Gulf of Mexico.
An old timer at this site told us that he has fished here at this point all his life and has caught fresh water and salt water fish here. You can see some fishermen in this photo. One of them caught a big mullet (salt water fish) while we were there. It was quiet and peaceful here and we enjoyed our visit to see the Big Oak Tree and the two rivers.
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