Akin Park in Longview

Today I explored a little ten acre park in Longview, Akin Park. I picked this park because a creek runs through it, which means FISH! I didn't bring my fishing pole because I wanted to scout out the creek first.

I did bring my camera and tried to take as many pictures of plants and critters as I could. Like many parks in Longview, it looks like this park once was an abandoned homestead. There is an abandoned well, now capped for safety, and I could tell which part of the park was a garden. There are neat rows of Chinese privet, Nandina, and other introduced species that I photographed for documentation purposes since these are invasive. Nature has been taking the garden back over, sassafras and water oak sprouting among the rows. It's always interesting to find abandoned gardens in the wild places.

The creek itself was very low compared to Facebook photos of the park. It's only rained an inch in the past two months, I think. I saw a few deep places that look promising for microfishing.

I didn't stay long because the heat became unbearable. It's supposed to cool down on the 4th, so I'll probably go back then unless we are lucky and it rains. Overall, it was a nice little park and my favorite thing was watching a Great Crested Flycatcher take a dust bath in a dry creek. So cute!

Posted on July 2, 2018 04:17 AM by