The first trip intended to follow the set route in the reverse order. Willowgrove Road is a beautiful windy drive through the forest, but we had a bit of trouble finding the Kings Rd turnoff, driving right past it for some distance before returning and using the GPS to locate it. Kings Road brought us down to Hawthorn Bridge, reportedly closed but it seemed in OK condition and didn't collapse on us. There was a really clean and new toilet built here and lots of possible camp sites, so we setup camp and tried some fishing before cooking a succulent chicken in the camp oven and relaxing around the fire.
Later in the evening as we were enjoying the quite and solitude, we could see two possums climbing out on a tree branch silhouetted against the moonlight sky high overhead. It seemed strange for them to be climbing along the dead branch towards the edge, until one after the other they leaped off the branch into the air, spread their legs wide and floated down onto the trunk of another tree. What a fantastic sight, our first observation of gliders in the bush.
Still later, we were startled as they one after the other crashed into the trunk of a tree just beside where we were sitting. We were able to get a very good look at them and identified them as Greater Gliders, but I couldn't get the camera from the car before they had climbed up into the trees.
The next day we drove out along La Trobe River Road, finding another great campsite only accessible by 4WD. I took a wrong turn missing H Tree Extension Road so we gave up on the planned route and just drove along, ending up on the Old Sale Road, and doing some 4WDing along Webbs Road along the back of farmland, eventually arriving into Neerim South via McDougals Rd.
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