Lake LBJ

Lake LBJ

Sunrise Beach, TX

Labor Day Weekend

2009



This is a great lake for exploring and water sports.

We have friends that live right on the water in a nice size

protected cove. The waterskiing and wakeboarding is excellent early in the day. However, there are a lot of tubers and jet skis

that tear up the water and can make the lake rather busy (escpecially on holiday weekends : )



Horseshoe Bay is on this lake and is known for it's golf courses and beautiful homes. Up river, by Kingsland, the Llano and Colorado river merge to form the main section of the lake. The Llano can get shallow quick so we don't venture to far up from the Kingsland Llano bridge. On the Colorado side however, you can travel for several miles until you get close to the Inks Lake dam. Then it gets very shallow with lots of granite rocks (prop killers). Don't worry both river are very well marked. You'll know your close to the end with all of the hazzard bouys.



My kids love two things about this lake (other then there best friends live out here). First of all, the love the water temperature compared to our normal boating lake, Lake Austin. It is a lot warmer then Lake Austin, but not hot like Bastrop or Sommerville. The second thing is the Sunrise Beach sand bar. My kids love to play ball, dig and build sand castles on the sand bar. It's a nice place for the adults to stop and rest as well. It offers

good people / boat watching and can get quite busy on the holidays. I always seem

to have problems setting up on the beach. I don't like to completely beach my boat and I worry about getting stuck with all the incoming pounding wakes. Two anchors help, but the channel can get busy and cause lots of waves. I wish it was a no wake zone so those anchored wouldn't have to worry so much.




Pros

Not too far from Austin (80 minutes)

Constant level lake

Well Marked - but can be difficult to navigate at night

Water temp and lack of hydrilla

Great exploring

Sand Bar


Cons

80 minute drive

Very little RV/ Tent camping offered on this lake.

Sand Bar needs a "no wake zone"

Water patrol loves to do randowm stops. Make sure you have all your gear in order.