You Yangs Regional Park, Victoria

Flinders Peak & East-West Walking Trails, approx. 7.5 kilometres including 450 stairs

Geoglyph of Bunjil an Indigenous Eagle of the Wathaurang people by artist, Andrew Rogers

Standing at just over 300 metres the highest peak at the You Yangs, named Flinders Peak after Matthew Flinders, who climbed to the top of the peak in 1802, dominates the flat landscape and is visible from many places in and around Geelong, which is about 30 kilometres away. The You Yangs are home to many mountain bike and x-country events.

Feral Goat

It is believed the You Yangs were formed by a volcano, but despite the granite rocky outcrops being the result of essentially cooled magma, during the volcanic period the You Yangs would have actually been underground, as the surface of the earth was several kilometres higher. We came across a similar explanation of the land's current formation when we visited the Australia Age of Dinosaurs in Winton, Queensland.