My Experience at Hippie Hollow Park

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Hippie Hollow Park In TX - As a college student at UT-Austin, I spent many enjoyable hours at nearby Lake Travis. My buddies and I'd drive to among the many small coves on the lake and spend the day swimming, windsurfing, or just soaking up Texas sun.

Lake Travis is a recreational beacon for Austin. It is a man-made lake, among the clearest lakes in Texas, and was created when the Mansfield Dam, built between the years of 1937 and 1941, impounded the Colorado River. It's encompassed by 270 miles of coast with numerous secluded coves, and it is been stocked with many species of significant game fish.

I am not much of a fisherman. I can not even swim, so the scuba diving and windsurfing actions were not especially appealing to me.

Hippie Hollow was one of the many secluded coves of Lake Travis. https://transtats.bts.gov/exit.asp?cache=yes&url=https://allnudism.xyz wasn't any nicer or worse than the other coves, but the nudist aspect was of great interest to me as a young faculty male.

Topless Woman Sunbathing at Hippie Hollow Park in Texas

I'd never been to a nude beach before. To be honest, at that time I'd never seen many naked people in any setting, but that was my primary interest in Hippie Hollow. I envisioned it to be some wonderland of naked college women who'd be lounging around on the shoreline for free viewing. In some of my more ecstatic minutes, I pictured nude volleyball contests, naked Frisbee, and naked gymnastics. The suitability of a beach for gymnastics, clothed or unclothed, never entered into my hormone-driven ideas.

Among my college friends was a young woman from France. She had an extremely nonchalant approach towards nude beaches. They are, seemingly, not a big deal in France. When I kept returning to the issue again and again, she eventually asked me if I want to go to Hippie Hollow Park with her and her friends that weekend. I agreed immediately.

Swiming Naked at Hippie Hollow Park

Her casual approach toward nudity didn't extend as far as sex. I had already asked her. To her, nude sunbathing and sex were significantly different things. When we arrived at the cove, she removed her top and cut off shorts at the auto. She wore bikini bottoms, but no top. I can't quite describe her attitude. It was like commiseration, wit, and disdain all rolled into one.

After thinking about calculus for a moment, I removed my swimming trunks, wrapped myself in a playa towel, and followed her to the playa. When the route left the surrounding shrubs, my dreams were shattered. Most of the people at the plage were old. They were 40-something, and sometimes even older. Many had weathered skin and white or grey hair. https://transtats.bts.gov/exit.asp?url=https://ournudism.com of them were male. There were a few topless girls there, but none went bottomless. We sat with my buddy's friends, all of whom were men, and a Swede named Gunnar kept making jokes with me about sunscreen lotion.

The folks at Hippie Hollow barbecued lunches. They skinny dipped. Some people played Frisbee, but there was no nude volleyball. There were certainly no gymnastics.

Hippie Hollow wasn't about sex. It was not even actually about nudism. The culture of that place was more about relaxation and attuning to nature. I was much too shallow to understand it at enough time, but hindsight has a clarity that youthful acuity can never match. The fact that Gunnar looked to understand, wile I did not, that the naturist culture was about much more than naked bodies or sexual urges troubles me to this day.

That was almost 25 years past. The fact that among those two things has thrived while the other has almost vanished should give inquisitive new visitors something to ponder.

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