Dust Club

[MudRat]

Just returned from a spanish holiday, we stayed in a relatives villa outside Mazzaron, near Murcia. OMG what a fantastic area for off roading, the Espuna Mountains are amazing and lots of tracks, also all along the coast, loads of tracks and free camping. We only had a Seat Leon, but i still did loads of the flatter stuff, suspension was knocking a bit when i handed it back  :twisted: In spin, you can drive river beds, hills, tracks etc, and no one seems to care, no signs etc, as long as you are not driving across fields ans orchards, they all wave at you and seem perfectly happy. No mud, just dust. Anyone else been?

[muddysteve]

just got back from fuertaventura, just about the same there

lanzerotte was fun a couple of years back too



always hire a 4by of some sort on holiday

[KingWolf]

Ohh......I wanna go on holiday now....... :'( :'( :'(

Mark.

[Gordo]

I've been out there a few times but on two wheels, not four:





Know what you mean about the freedom (and the dust!). The second picture was taken at a huge area of waste ground that's used by lots of people for all kinds of things: bikes, cars, kites... The Police turned up to have a play on their own bikes too. We were there learning how to turn corners in sand and gravel so we were less likely to fall off the mountain passes  :D

Although to be fair, they have a lot more country to play with than we do - and fewer people living in it.

Already booked to go out there again in the autumn  :dance:

[dazzawhipple]

Hello Lee hope everyones okay


This is our dust not spain but OZ  main track into an off road area


best way to drive this road 70kph!!!!! as the suspension will not recover in time before the next corrigation thus smoothing the ride out

It takes about an hour to drive

[CaptainColourful]

Hi Dazzawhipple
 I had a holiday in the Northern Territory a while ago.
I know exactly what you mean about those ridges. I had a rental X-trail, not a real 4by but not too bad. 
I was tootling along slowly down a dust track and having my liver shaken out when a bloke in a toyota flatbed flew past me. I reckoned he knew summat I didn't so I booted it a bit and hey presto the ride was smooth at 70-80 kph.
I couldn't believe what a difference it made, and the car didn't seem to mind at all.
The alternate route was an extra 40 odd miles, but I was seriously considering taking it until the toyota showed me the way to smooth things out.
 

[lcruiser100s]

re dirt roads in aus. at 80km/h you are skipping along the top of the ruts therefore less bouncing. a lot less wear and tear on the car.

[gtomo2]

ben to that part of spain myself and so want to go back in my disco and do it propaly like you say loads of tracks up the mountains.Did you find the big guns on top of the moutain just outside Mazzaron That is a nice road  NOT up to them.

[CaptainColourful]

re dirt roads in aus. at 80km/h you are skipping along the top of the ruts therefore less bouncing. a lot less wear and tear on the car.

The car was a rental so I wasn't too concerned if it fell apart a few weeks after we had handed it back.
 My main concern was that my liver/spleen/kidneys/eyes/teeth would fall out all over the floor  :lol:
With the extra speed it did skip over the surface quite nicely, in fact a little sideways action was quite enjoyable on some of the long bends..... although that was a bit risky considering help was so far away if I had an accicent.

We once pulled over by the side of the road to watch a pack of dingos as they walked up the road towards us.... we were enthralled. When I looked in my door mirror to watch them as they passed by us, I noticed that a plod had parked up right behind us ready to give us grief if I had even thought of getting out of the car to stroke them. As if !!
I still don't know where he came from, he must've been hiding in a bush somewhere I reckon... 100's of miles and no sign of a plod, then stop for 10 mins and one crept up on us....... just like being at home !




 
 

[lcruiser100s]

now your just making me home sick... will have to check this place out in spain.

[dazzawhipple]

now your just making me home sick... will have to check this place out in spain.

I not home sick at all (25 years away from Australia) I miss the mud but its coming into winter so we "might get some rain"

Just looked at you pictures bush camping very enjoyable

Our only camping is on the beach