Ibex Hunting near Rock Hound State Park

After spending ten days at Rock Hound State Park in June, we decided we liked it so much we would return here during the winter months.  We were fortunate enough to receive a camp ground hosting position, so we will be staying here for the winter and will not have to move every two weeks.

Here is a photo of our camp site.  There is plenty of shade and privacy.

Here is the view from the north end of the trailer.  All the campsites are above us to the East.

This view of the Visitor's Center also shows the Florida Mountains to the south.  We work in the Visitor's Center part of the time, and the rest of the time we serve as Camp Ground Hosts.  We work four days on and four off.  On our off days there is a single man who works four days.

I am going to skip ahead on my posts and feature a successful Ibex hunt.  We met Jack Ellis in September and he told us about the up-coming Ibex hunt.  He promised to let us know if he was successful during the bow hunt in October. 

He was good for his word.  When he came back he was accompanied by his two sons, Caleb and Josh.  They hunted mostly in the Florida mountan range.

Here are some of the Ibex that they were hunting.  They were out of range for the bow in this picture.

Josh and Caleb almost imitated the goats to get a better view.

Their approach to stalking the Ibex was daring and breath taking.

In the long run, it was all worth it.  They had movies on their i-phones they shared with us, but I do not know how to put them on the blog.

Thank you Jack, Caleb, and Josh for sharing your hunting experience with us and allowing us to share it with our blog visitors.

I will close this blog post with another beautiful sunset view from Rock Hound State Park.