Mansfield-Damm... a dam at Lake Colorado creating Lake Travis

We thought about a dry country without rivers, lakes, not a lot of trees, flat like a pan.... and always hot, when we heard about Texas. Wrong!! There are a lot of nice big lakes, there are rivers, there is a hundreds of miles long ocean front.. and there is (some kind of) winter!
Today we went to Lake Travis for the first time. That lake is about 30 minutes from our house. It is a huge lake with many parks where we could access the waterfront. There are also 'beaches', boat slips and even a scuba diving entrance.....
... but i was to cold to even think about watersports!
But even during the winter time... you can find exotic flowers and cactuses in the area.

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