Nidjet
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I just thought I would post a few piccys of the roads down here in the Islands, for your interest.
The only proper metalled roads here are in the Mount Pleasant Airbase, Stanley (the capital) and a few small sections on the main road to Stanley. The rest of the roads are gravel or clay. The main Stanley to Goose Green road which passes the airbase, has huge ditches either side of it, which is the main reason the road is so dangerous. Apartently, when they built the road in 1983/4, they confused the yearly rainfall with the monthly rainfall, and built the ditches accordingly. So if you go off the road, you risk dieing in the ditch or at best totalling your vehicle.
In the winter the road is not repaired at all, and therefore gets so pot holed, that it's not possible to go more than 10/15 mph as the vehicle will just fall apart or you will be into those ditches. I used to run a Discovery with jacked up springs, winch etc, but found that if you hit a hole wrong you would be sideways at 20mph before you knew it, thats why we bought the first P38 just to do the road in as it soakes up the bumps with ease while keeping you in control. It still gets quite hairy though, especially when you have a 35 mph cross wind, it's dark, raining and you have the wife and kids on board.
Anyway have a look at the pics and let me know your thoughts.
The only proper metalled roads here are in the Mount Pleasant Airbase, Stanley (the capital) and a few small sections on the main road to Stanley. The rest of the roads are gravel or clay. The main Stanley to Goose Green road which passes the airbase, has huge ditches either side of it, which is the main reason the road is so dangerous. Apartently, when they built the road in 1983/4, they confused the yearly rainfall with the monthly rainfall, and built the ditches accordingly. So if you go off the road, you risk dieing in the ditch or at best totalling your vehicle.
In the winter the road is not repaired at all, and therefore gets so pot holed, that it's not possible to go more than 10/15 mph as the vehicle will just fall apart or you will be into those ditches. I used to run a Discovery with jacked up springs, winch etc, but found that if you hit a hole wrong you would be sideways at 20mph before you knew it, thats why we bought the first P38 just to do the road in as it soakes up the bumps with ease while keeping you in control. It still gets quite hairy though, especially when you have a 35 mph cross wind, it's dark, raining and you have the wife and kids on board.
Anyway have a look at the pics and let me know your thoughts.
