Photos of Stirling Range and Porongurup National Park, Western Australia

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Stirling Range and Porongurup National Park

Stirling Range National Park, about 50 kilometres north of Albany, is the only significant mountain range in the southern area of Western Australia. The Stirling Ranges, named for Western Australia’s first governor, James Stirling, is a 65-kilometre-long row of mountains with fine scenery along the road and good bushwalking possibilities.

Blackboy near Albany
 
Xanthorrhoea grass trees
 
Road, Stirling Range National Park
 
View, Stirling Range National Park
 
View, Stirling Range National Park
 
View near Talyunberlup
 
View to Mount Toolbrunup
 
View to Mount Toolbrunup
 
View towards Bluff Knoll
 
View from Chester Pass Road
 
Bluff Knoll (Bular Mial)
 
View to the Stirling Range
 
Balancing Rock
 
Climb to Granite Skywalk
 
Granite Skywalk
 
Granite Skywalk
 
View from Granite Skywalk
 
View from Granite Skywalk
 
View from Granite Skywalk
 
Castle Rock formation
 
Tree-in-the-Rock
 
View with vineyards
 
View to Devils Slide
 
View to the Porongurups
 

The Aboriginal name for the Stirling range, Koi Kyenunu-ruff, means ‘mist rolling around the mountains’; the park’s highest peak, 1,073-metres high Bluff Knoll, or Bular Mial, is a place of cultural significance for the Minang and Goreng, indigenous Noongar people of the area.

South of the Stirling Range is Porongurup National Park, which includes the Castle Rock trail with its balancing rock and the Granite Skywalk, which offers spectacular views of the Stirling Range. There are also many boutique, family-owned vineyards and wineries here, like Castle Rock Estate on the eastern slopes of the Porongurup Range.