Good Lord! Lake Travis is GONE! We had recently seen the article where CNN sent some people up to Lake Travis to document the drought, but good god have mercy. We had no idea. Lake Travis for all intents and purposes, is GONE! Three large puddles of water, maybe a foot deep at most. This is bad.
Tara M.
Place rating: 5 Bedford, TX
Woot! I did It! I swam from Volente Beach out to Starnes Island today! Ok I had to get that out! It was that exciting. The 5 stars is for the actual overall experience not the island itself. This morning 4 of my adventure friends and I met at 620/Bullick Hollow and piled into James’ truck for the ride out to Volente Beach Water Park — since the Island does not have an address that is the address I used for the island. To swim out to the island pass the water park and turn into the first private driveway on the right pay 5.00 per car and drive all the way to the water — you will see the island out off shore. If you want to swim out to this island you must have swim fins a flotation device for water and dry pack and I highly advise some sort of flag since there are boats in the area. We swam up to a sandy beach and hiked over to the other side that has cliffs and huge boulders to jump off of. The guys jumped first to prove to Tracy and I that it was safe:) yes the water is still deep enough here. Even though the water is low it was a good 1⁄8 mile swim out to the island that took about 20 minutes. I highly recommend the island for anyone who likes to explore, swim or scuba dive.
