Coastal plain blackwater bottomland hardwood forest community (2)

Figure 16. Upstream section of the White Oak, twenty miles from the sea (Photograph by the author. More about the photograph)

Figure 16 show a view of the White Oak where it is usually nothing but a creek-sized stream about 25 feet across and a few inches deep. As you can see, the floodwaters of Hurricane Floyd continue to keep it out of its banks almost two months later. The are pictured is slightly more than twenty miles from the sea. The plant community here is the same coastal plain blackwater bottomland forest community shown in figure 15, although I will admit you can’t tell much about it from this photograph.

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