Mount Eccles National Park

Mount Eccles National Park is a small park in western Victoria, about 45 minutes south of Hamilton. Its namesake, Mount Eccles (or Budj Bim, as it is known among the Gunditjmara people) is a small dormant volcano. Lake Surprise sits in a fissure near the top of the mountain.

My friend Angela and I went camping out there around New Year's Day. The tracks we took were pretty well forested, so there weren't a lot of great photo opportunities. Still, it was a pleasant, relaxing trip, and a great way to spend the weekend. Also, I'm pretty sure at one point we took a wrong turn and drove down a walking track. Oops.

There were lots of kookaburras and koalas around the camp site, and they got really loud, right around sunset. Not long after, we heard something scratching around one of the trees, and saw this little guy (I think it's a common brushtail possum, Trichosurus vulpecula):

I'm not 100% sure this was on the same trip, but it's pretty cool and I don't know where else to place it: