The Porongorup National Park is home to a high quality attraction well worth the effort to reach it.
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- A magnificent Kingia Australis near the corner of Syred and Takalarup Road.
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- Lineup of vehicles during a break just before we reached the Porongorups.
We travelled to the Porongorups to see the Granite Skywalk at Castle Rock. The Parks and Wildlife Service may disagree but they have done a spectacularly unsuccessful job of promoting what is an amazing, world class attraction.
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- Along the 2.2 kilometre track to the top of Castle Rock.
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- Jeff at Balancing Rock.
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- Granite slab at the summit.
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- Interesting gap.
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- The last obstacle before climbing up to the Skywalk.
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- The beginning of the Granite Skywalk.
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- Phil on Skywalk.
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- End of the Granite Skywalk.
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- The Granite Skywalk on Castle Rock.
The Castle Rock Granite Skywalk is an engineering masterpiece. Workers abseiled over the face of the rock from the summit and drilled into the granite to provide anchor points for the walkway supports. The walkway was then lifted into place by helicopter.
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- The Granite Skywalk on Castle Rock.
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