Albany is in the rear view mirror , and we are heading east . Finding a free camp along the way was a pleasure we couldn't resist . The old locality of Fitzgerald once had a school , it had a cricket / football oval out the back , which is now the free camp area . We were the 3rd vehicle in , pulling in and setting up before having some lunch . The oval is lined with gum trees and coarse white sand .
The cricket pitch has seen better days and would be a harsh test of players dodging the dead tree at one end .
The gums have been chewed pretty well by some hungry bugs , leaving interesting patterns .
Aerial views of the area seemed to be the go , there's a lot of cropping here - wheat , barley , canola & lupins being grown here . This is the view over some of the small fields being used . The road is the South Coast Hwy and Fitzgerald Road intersection looking southeast toward Hopetuon .
Here's the highway looking west .
And this one is the cricket oval , us parked on the LHS . The school was at the far end of the oval , the building at the right hand side of the oval is the old tennis club building . There were 3 bitumen tennis courts that are now slowly being reclaimed by nature . The clubhouse also had table tennis inside as well .
The bare ground at the bottom of the photo is an area that has been graded to direct rain water into the 2 dams , which provide water to 2 tanks beside the oval for travelling stock .
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