A lovely drive through Texas Hill Country and a brief hike down into a ravine, and before your eyes rises an ancient sunken cave. Water cascades from an overhang, at a height where you once stood only moments before and never would have even known such a treasure existed here below. The blue-green lagoon that is Hamilton Pool provides icy relief from the scorching Texas heat. Thirty-four miles west of Austin in Spicewood, the privately owned and lovingly operated Krause Springs is actually two swimming holes in one – a spring-fed swimming pool and below that a creek. Cypress trees line the water and tower over a waterfall.
