The weather has been so nice for us this whole trip and today is another mild sunny day.
After checking in at Montana's Duck Lake Lodge, we headed back over to the Many Glacier Lodge for our Many Glacier Boat Tour. The scenery continues to be awe inspiring! This is an incredible view of the Many Glacier Lodge and the surrounding mountains!
Here comes our boat, the Chief Two Guns....
As she is driving the Chief Two Guns, our boat captain/guide Ginny, who is very knowledgeable, talks to us about what we are seeing as we glide along on Swiftcurrent Lake.
When we got to the end of Swiftcurrent Lake we disembarked the Chief Two Guns and hiked up and over a small hill, walking approximately 1/4 mile to another dock which is situated on Lake Josephine. There we boarded another boat, the Morning Eagle. Our boat captain/guide for this Lake is Hannah, just as young and cute as Ginny!
When we get to the end of Lake Josephine we are given the option of staying in the boat and riding right back, or we could disembark and wait for the boat to come back. We opted to get off the boat and go for a little walk and catch the next boat back. There was a crowd of people waiting there already to go back, but not very many were able to get on our boat since not very many of us got off.
Some of the folks waiting there told us that they had seen a moose, about 20 minutes back up the trail. So Tom and I headed up that trail since Tom has never seen a moose and really would like to see one. Right away, I started worrying that we may miss the next boat. There is a two mile long trail back to the Lodge, however I was not too keen on having to walk two miles back this late in the day. We kept on walking into the woods, toward the possible moose sighting, and I was worrying about missing that boat. Tom said that since there was so many folks still there at the dock waiting for a boat that we may not all get into one boat and some of us would have to wait for the boat to come back a second time, but I wasn't sure and I did not want to miss the "last" boat and have to walk that two miles thru these bear-infested woods at sundown back to the Lodge. So, for me, we turned around and headed back down the trail toward the boat dock.
When the boat got back, just as Tom had thought, not everyone was able to fit, so some of us would have to wait for the boat to come back a second time. (about a half-hour turnaround) Then I wished I had quit my worrying earlier and kept on walking toward that possible moose sighting for my Sweetie, Tom. It really would not have been the end of the world if we would have had to walk back on the two mile long trail back to the Lodge.
On our way back to the boat dock I saw this....is it bear poop??
After all, we are in grizzly country.
More beautiful wildflowers!
There comes the last boat of the day...with Hannah holding the bow line and Sarah driving the boat. I was impressed with the knowledge and professionalism of these very capable and quite pretty young women.
There were only a few of us left to board this final boat of the day.
When we docked on Lake Josephine, we noticed this very red rock in the water on the shoreline!
We trekked back up and over the hill to the dock on Swiftcurrent Lake where Sarah in the Chief Two Guns boat was waiting for us to take us back to the dock at Many Glacier Lodge.
This is another great view of the historic Many Glacier Lodge, taken from the boat, as we were on our way back.
When we arrived back at Montana's Duck Lake Lodge, the sun was going down. There was no one playing checkers...
...looks like a few folks are setting up camp...
Tom and I decided to share an order of nachos in the café. It hit the spot! Delicious along with lots of ice water!
Following dinner, Tom went outside and snapped photos of the awesome Montana sunset!
The end of day 5, another great day of vacation in Glacier National Park!
Tomorrow we will head back toward Spokane to visit with Megan and Austen and cute little Nelson.
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