I have travelled for work many times over the years, and stayed at many tourist/caravan parks. They are all full of possums, as they live in our native gum trees here. They come right into your accommodation once they get to know you and you can feed them, but you have to be careful as they can bite & have huge claws that can rip your hand open (as I discovered one day). I don't think the possum that scratched me meant to do it, there was thunder that night & it got scared, and it just scratched me trying to get out of the door! Lucky my hand wasn't ripped open though. But they do watch you, and are really curious wee buggers. However they can do alot of damage to power lines, get into bins, live up in people's attics and cause alot of noise, and they can become a huge nuisance. Many people here see them as pests. But their trees etc are constantly being cut down, & they are just trying to survive and find food like every other animal, so I think it's partly our fault. The wee baby possums are just lovely, and at night you can see the two sets of eyes shining in the gloom from the Mum and her baby.