Flathead Lake and Big Fork-July 19, 2012

Flathead Lake is the largest fresh water lake west of the Mississippi River. It's a really big lake, a mere 80 miles to drive all the way around it. It's quite a scenic drive. We could not take a decent picture of the lake and the mountains in the background. There was enough humidity to create a blue haze over everything. The lake didn't look as pretty as it could. I think I read that the lake covers just under 4000 acres.

Almost all available space has cherry trees on it.

We only drove 35 miles to Big Fork. What an adorable little town. We really enjoyed walking the streets and checking out stores. Bought a few things and enjoyed the nice weather. What surprised me was the volume of gorgeous flowers growing all over town. Every available space was covered with these beautiful flowers. In some places they almost blocked the sidewalks.

The entire town was like this. It was so pretty.

We started this trip north to Glacier National Park so we could drive the Go To The Sun Road (yes, that's the name) that crosses the park. Unfortunately on Tuesday afternoon, after a torrential rain, they had more than a dozen rock slides. Ten cars got trapped and one was very badly damaged by the falling rocks. Here is a link to a video a lady from Georgia took as the slide started. She was terrified. But all was well. Everybody got down off the mountain and the road reopened today. I'm not sure how long the link will be active.

http://www.kpax.com/news/glacier-national-park-mudslide-caught-on-tape/

They are warning of heavy rain tomorrow and flash floods. So, we will not be going through Glacier National Park tomorrow. Maybe next week.