On the Water Front
How do you survive a Texas summer? We’ve got two words for you (no, not “New Mexico”): “Stay wet.” To this deep end, we’ve swum—and tubed and scuba’d and surfed—the state to find spots where the urge to submerge is irresistible. Some of our picks are outrageously popular, where weekend crowds are packed flipper to float. Others are relatively undiscovered treasures that you might end up sharing with no one but a great blue heron. So go ahead, heed the siren call of that ancestral mudskipper from whom we all sprang. Dive in.

