After breakfast we drove to Mt Barker town centre, starting at the bakery. We then drove around the small town as Toyota tourists, not wanting to get wet in the intermittent rain. The Plantagenet Hotel is an impressive building with a wide top floor veranda.
We had a booking for lunch at Plantagenet Wines only 200m from our caravan park. Meal service was very slow due to a staff shortage, but it was worth the wait. Four of us shared a vegetarian pizza and a gourmet platter.
While the others did wine tasting and buying, I drove to the Mt Barker Historical Precinct next to our caravan park. There are convict era buildings and other artefacts. The last photo shows a convict-made small slab fence enclosure. The Bushtracker is in the background just above the “S” on the sign.
I had time to drive about 5kms to the Rotary Lookout on Mt Barker Hill. There are three telecommunications towers on the hill, the tallest of which is 184m high, and four large satellite dishes.
In 2019 three of us walked up to Granite Skywalk at Castle Rock in Porongurup National Park. We could see the peak from the lookout, the granite outcrop on the left.
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