We stopped for lunch at East Glacier, Montana, before heading to the St. Mary entrance of Glacier National Park.  This entrance is adjacent to an emerald green colored lake, St. Mary, with sharp snow covered peaks rising above the colored wild flower fields.  We drove along the east side of the Going To The Sun Road, towards the dock for a 1.5 hour boat tour of the lake.  We saw one of the 27 remaining glaciers in the park on the Going To The Sun mountain, after passing Goose Island, a tiny but mysterious and famous island in the middle of a 300 foot deep lake [no one knows how it got in the middle of the glacier formed lake]. After seeing some of the most beautiful mountains of our trip, the boat headed to another dock with a small path to a nice waterfall.  We also saw a deer eating in the woods there!

After returning to shore, we drove about 6 more miles to the end of the available road and saw the huge Jackson Glacier.  On  the way back, we saw a coyote that ran beside our car for a good 5 minutes.  It was really cool, and we got some great pictures.  Then, we headed off to the Many Glaciers road, which has a beautiful chateau on a lake at the end of it.  The area was magnificent, but we decided that we're content with campgrounds!  In fact, after being stopped at the Canadian border for about an hour [they are really thorough here], we drove in the night towards Banff through Calgary, seeking to find a campground... see you tomorrow in the Canadian Rockies!