Ever since I was a kid my Dad and I would come visit this big old tree, he and my grandfather used to come here too. Reportedly this 400+ year old oak has survived hurricanes, fires and various other detrimental parts of nature and man. Part of what has always amazed me is the limbs that have been so large as droop to the ground, then grow branches that are larger than most trees. This photo doesn't do it justice. It took six of my adult family members linking hands to fully circle its trunk. Part of old Florida I would hate to see disappear.
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