The Sierra Nevada Natural Park (not to be confused with the Sierra Nevada mountains in California) is the Spanish equivalent of one of our National Parks.  High in the mountains, there are stunning views and plenty of Ibex!

Alpine Garden

The sign for the University of Granada’s Alpine Garden, high in the Sierra Nevadas

My Rock!

This Ibex stares me down from the top of his mountain perch in Spain’s Sierra Nevada Natural Park

Mountaintop Peek-A-Boo

It totally looks Photoshopped, but it isn’t at all.  Colette spotted these five or six mountain goats  above us in Spain’s Sierra Nevada Natural Park as we were around 8,000ft elevation, and I lugged 400mm of lens up the hillside and got a couple good shots before they spotted me and moved off.  All of them had yellow collars with numbers on them, probably GPS tracking for wildlife management by the park rangers.