I went down second week in June. Didn't get any and only saw two. I saw them from the road in B4 (restricted). They were huge. I mostly hunted B8 and once in A16. I stayed there because that was convenient to where I was staying in Holbrook Campground and I had seen sign there and hunted there before. I hope to go back next year around the same time armed with the info I get each time I go. My son (10yo) hindered me this time but the main reason I go is for him. I think we will be on them the next time I go. Here's some pics of our hunt.
This is our humble abode for the week.
It had all the creature comforts including Playstation and Winnie the Pooh sheets (mom wouldn’t let him take his good Mossy Oak sheets.
Here’s a beautiful corn snake that Josh spied beside our site. He walked to the woods to grab a stick to sort the charcoal and pointed and said “da da da da corn snake!” I said “How did you know that was a corn snake?” He replied “the Discovery Channel”
Here’s a wallow that I found 2 years ago. It was hit every night. We could never catch them in it and probably hunted it too much. (I hadn't planned on bowhunting until Josh tagged one, hence the rifle.)
A cool pic in the swamp. I don’t know what kind of trees these were (cypress?) but they were big.
How profound. We were rummaging through some ammo dumps that were exposed by some erosion and Josh found this cool spear point in an area near a couple of .50 cal projectiles.
Since Gopher Tortoises are protected in FL I figured we wouldn’t see many. We saw three the whole trip and this one was within 300 yards of another we found.