We woke early to catch a four hour ferry ride, which we disembarked at Gustavus to be picked up by our bed and breakfast hosts Jim and Jolene Kearns. Julene is from Star Valley. We filled a car we used if theirs with gas at a petroleum museum and then went up to the lodge at Glacier National Park where we went through the visitor center and some other sites like a Tlingit lodge. We then enjoyed a pretty much all you can eat fresh halibut dinner with the Kearns's. They are LDS and have known Mark and Carol in he stake for years. Of course, the dinner was "delicious," according to all.
Embarking on the ferry the Leconte.
Meeting our host and guide, Jim.
Yep, we pumped from those pumps when we filled up the car our hosts let us borrow for the afternoon.
A skeleton of a humpback that was hit by a crusie ship in 2001. Because it was found the ship was negligent, the park got money to have its bones preserved and put together.
The Tlingit tribal house took four men over two years just for the boards because all of the planks are hand hewn. It has been open just under a year. Our Tglingit docent told us about the art on the wall and how it tells the story of his people in Alaska and at least one of the glaciers.
We then went on a hike/walk through the rain forest close to the lodge. The vegetation was incredible! The kids were plenty noisy and no bears were seen, though earlier we had seen a black bear in the road.
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