Returning to Great Falls, Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center, Nimrod hot springs, Kayaking Geogetown Lake: Blog post 157 (June 2021)

 We returned to Great Falls, MT, just a few weeks after visiting. My (Debbie's) sister Linda, flew from Los Angeles to Great Falls, Montana to spend a week with us. We had a few days left in Great Falls, to take her to visit and explore the "Great Falls". We also visited the Lewis and Clark interpretive center,  right on the Missouri River, along with a salmon hatchery.

After leaving Great Falls, we travelled to Garrison, MT. Linda got to see what is involved in a travel day for an Rver.

1 day after we arrived the power went out to the park. Neil got massive and very heavy generator out and got us back on power. Within minutes 3 camp workers (Golf Cart Brigade) rode up to him to inquire how much longer he would be using his generator.   Neil told him when the power is restored to the park. One of the men said, the power is back on. We were flipping switches this morning, not realizing we had turned power off. (We can definitely laugh about it now).

We found a locals hidden gem off the highway call Nimrod Springs. It took us 2 days of looking for it, but then we finally asked a local who gave us directions. 

One day we drove to the Georgetown Lake so that I could take Linda Kayaking. We laughed a lot!



Great Falls KOA

I am sure if Linda saw this picture, she would not be happy, but too bad LOL!

Took a nice evening walk, on our last evening in Great Falls, MT. Enjoyed the sunset, saw a Wolf Spider, and several deers. 


Visiting the Great Falls


































































The Springs and Hatchery on the Missouri River





From the Hatchery, we took a short hike 

The Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center



























































































The Riverfront RV park Garrison, MT

Took another evening walk last evening in Garrison, MT; saw several ducks and a lame duck that is cared for here at the park (We believe). Also have been enjoying playing the Mexican train game with my sister Linda.




The Golf Cart Brigade


The Clark Fork river was a short 3-5 minute walk from the park. The 3 of us played in the water a few times, but 1 day Linda decided to go on a intertube down the river. She went down the river all right. Fell in once as Neil is trying to help her navigate around a blocked path, lost one of her sandals. Got back on her flamingo in search of other sandal floating down river. Thought was, we would pick her up in the truck somewhere down the river. LOL we had to launch the drone after we received a call from her that she is trying to walk back with 1 sandal and a large pink flamingo. Unfortunately there was no paths for her to get to a road, so she had to walk the entire way back with 1 sandal. We did have fun playing in the water after she returned from her very own adventure LOL (See YT video above)



The frog I almost killed, trying to video him/her when I dropped the gopro on it when we went looking for Linda down river


























Snow still on the mountains in June

Took a drive to Nimrod hot springs, Montana. It only took 2 days of traveling in circles, until a local told us how to find it. The GPS coordinates to make it easier for others to find and enjoy is       46.705-113.457.











Had a fun time Kayaking with my sister 
on Georgetown Lake in Montana. It took us a little bit to get in sync with each other, but we eventually got it, but had a lot of fun laughing as we went in a circle. We saw fishing jumping out of the water trying to catch bugs, and what we believe is a cottonwood bush causing cottonwood to be falling to ground like snow.





Cow kissing my husband

Hiliraous video!!! Click the YouTube video in the beginning of this post to see.


Had such a great time with my sister during the last week. Can’t wait until I see her again and so many more family members in Colorado Springs, in September







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