Doing most of my local driving around Oran Park/ Gregory Hills/Narellan I’m used to seeing bus shelters as a common part of the landscape … quite a few around Narellan and Harrington Park being the same design as this one. So it came as a bit of a surprise one day when Google maps brought me along Deepfields Rd, and just short of that road’s far end, in the middle of nowhere, I found this shelter sitting in splendid isolation.
Call me over-imaginative, but it reminded me of two movies, made 80 years apart. In Beau Geste, (1939) most of the action takes place in a remote outpost of the French Foreign Legion, Fort Zinderneuf in Algeria, far out on the desert sands. In The Fort (2019), American troops defending Combat Outpost Keating in Afghanistan are isolated by logistics and poor planning as much as distance. In both movies, the defenders come under siege (yes, I know, another movie ... but that was a boat ...oops, ship!!) from indigenous forces, determined to wipe them out.
Though hardly a fort, or under attack by hostile locals, in travelling along from Camden Valley Way, this place seemed to me to have that same “outpost in an alien landscape” feel about it.
BYOP. Roll completed log and place inside lid portion of cache before closing.
If you are driving along Deepfields Rd towards Camden Valley Way, be aware that you can only do a left turn onto CVW. If you want to turn in the direction of Camden, take Catherine Fields Rd instead (practically opposite bus stop). Probably because of this, Catherine Fields Rd has had a greater traffic burden and it's a bumpier, more patched-up route.
Hillster lightning-quick for an FTF. Congrats & thanks for running interference with the locals ... hopefully, unwanted curiosity has been short-circuited.