I got photos of these tree growing out of the water too. But this is the normal water level in this lake. it is not flooded. The boat you see is his own boat. you can have motot boats there in the lake but the park just rent boats with no motors lol. I wish i had that boat or one like it. I be out on the water ways takeing photos intill my camera breaks for takeing too many[ they say a camera is good for 50,000 to 60,000 shots. It be time to get a new one then anyway. I figure it be five years or so to take that many shots. I meet people who do not take many photos because of this limit. I wonder about how they think? Anyway I at the end of the board walk and wawadave ask for a view from the end of the walk. check out his gallery you will not be disappointed. Plus I posted this for a lot of people who is interested in theses trees growing out the water like this. They do grow and the water is deep. I been by many of them and even have to push the boat off so we will not hit the tree head on.[dont ask lol] dont paint cypress wood, if you do look the paint recipe up on the net. I painted some years ago and it roited away in two years. Then I meet some one who tell me some one painted some old cypress houses at this planetion over by Baton Rouge and they all roited away cause $1,000,000 of damage. There is a way to paint cypress wood and you need to look it up on the net by typeing in "painting cypress" I hate to paint or stan this lovely wood . Just leave it natural and it will not roit for a long time[like after you dead and gone] lol chase a lot of rabbits today. I did find my camera. thanks for looking and comments and votes iso is 160 lens zoomed out to 130 f-stop is 5.6 exposure time is 1/400