Castle Rock, Western Australia
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Castle Rock is a tourist attraction in the Porongurup Range in the Great Southern region of Western Australia, and is renowned for its fauna and flora.
There is a walk trail called Castle Rock Walk Trail to the summit that offers 360 degree views, 570 metres (1,870 ft) above sea level[citation needed] from a lookout known as Granite Skywalk.[contradictory] The trail also takes in the unusual Balancing Rock, a 6-metre-high (20 ft) granite boulder that reportedly weighs around 186 tonnes (410 thousand pounds) yet rests on a base of just 1.21 square metres (13.02 sq ft).[1][page needed]
Granite Skywalk was refurbished and reopened in 2012, allowing for a greater viewing experience and accommodating more pedestrians on it. A lower platform is accessible for those that are less able to climb to, and then ascend, the steep, caged, ladder to Granite Skywalk.
The rock formation was once named Alfred's Castle by Alfred Meadows Gillam.[2]
A winery located on the eastern slopes of the range is named after this landmark.
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View from lower platform
At bottom of ladder
Granite Skywalk
Lower platform
View from skywalk towards Stirling Range National Park
