Montana, Day 4 - Lakeside, Lavender and Bigfork

(Note: trying to get caught up so be sure to see both posts for today.)

Since we didn’t have a park tour today, 

and weren’t able to get a timed entry pass, 

we decided to head south to Lakeside and environs. 

Teena had spotted a brochure for a boat tour, 

which just happened to be on the way to a lavender farm we wanted to see.

It was a nice, leisurely cruise around Lakeside Lake,

 According to Captain “Awesome”, the black house top left belongs to Johnny Depp, middle one is Jelly Roll’s, bottom is the Osprey House (so pretty!). Right is the longest vertical funicular in the world (and very expensive to build.)

viewing the vacation homes of a few celebrities 

seeing the lone bald eagle,

learning about the storms - winds to 40 mph and 5-7’ waves on a lake??!? -

and the wild horses in one of the 38 lake islands.

But mostly it was an excuse to hang out and take pictures together. 

Not a bad way to spend an afternoon (or at least an hour and a half of it.)

The lavender farm was just a few miles away in Somers. 

It’s outside the growing season but the yard still smelled strongly of lavender,

which made it very tempting to take home some of the tiny plants she had for sale. They’d survive a plane trip, right??

Fortunately, the gift shop was open so we could fight the plant temptation. 

 Our trusty steed, aka the rental car

And as long as we were over that way, we might as well stop by what we were told was a cute historical town with some interesting shops, right?

We jokingly asked if Bigfork had a big fork… of course they do! So funny.

They also had some vividly gorgeous flowers (with bonus moth and spider) that I loved. Gotta get some photography practice in!