Today was a beautiful sunny day, so we hopped on our jet skis and headed south to Bird Island. It’s a decent-sized chunk of rock and trees on Flathead Lake, and a friend said there’s some good cliff-jumping.
Here’s Kyra cruising toward the island at around 40mph:
I attempted a shot of our wake as we paced her, but it’s kind of tricky at that speed…
When we arrived at Bird Island, there were a couple guys there already. They’d beached their boat, and were listening to music while eating a picnic lunch from a big cooler. We chatted for a bit, and they commented about how much fun our jet skis must be. Indeed, but we can’t carry a big cooler and a boombox very easily.
We set off to explore the island. Sadly, cliff-jumping isn’t a great idea right now because the lake is still eight feet low, so all the underwater rocks are exposed.
The island is aptly named, however, because there were a ton of geese honking and flying around. We stumbled over a nest of goose eggs (mom was particularly unhappy with us, and we realized this was the reason).
After gallivanting around for a bit, we hopped back on the jet skis and explored several other nearby islands (all much smaller). We went down to Finley Point and found a house that we’d looked at a year ago on our house-hunting trip. We agreed we were glad we hadn’t bought that one.
It was another gorgeous day on the lake. And tomorrow’s supposed to be even warmer…