Hamilton Pool, Austin, TX
You probably aren’t thinking of the beach when you’re in Austin, but if you go to the Hamilton Pool, you’ll see a naturally formed spring in the limestone bedrock. It looks as if it was plucked from a tropical island and dropped into the middle of Austin’s limestone hills.
The cave and waterfall are part of a now protected preserve, and visitors will be blown away by the overhanging dome that once hid the entire grotto until it collapsed. It’s safe now, but before you go, make reservations because they are required to swim in this gorgeous and refreshing water.
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Once on the Victoria Beach, do you walk north or south along the beach to the tower?
OMG my school, the Fashion Institute of Technology took us here as field trip, I guess. I graduated in 1979. It was an art history course.
Interesting tidbits of information about each of these “finds” for those who travel around our country !
Huell Howser of Calgold once did a whole segment on this. Fascinating!
Discovered this place with a friend and Tourguide colleague, while touring downtown LA. I bought several books then.
During covid, they found a way to remain in business, by going online, which made me feel better, because I love the building and the store. Right across is an old building dating from the beginning of the Cinema, where stars like Charles Chaplin used to stay and they now have a French Restaurant, which I hope remained in business during covid. Too many Los Angelinos, don’t even know that part of Los Angeles where the Movie Industry really took off after escaping the Monopoly of Thomas Edison, with the silent version of the Count of Monte Christo.
An Iconic monument to visit.
I lived in Wilmette in 1966.
Chet Zaneski