We had an intrepid adventure today, I can tell Dr Fred is much better – we decided to try and drive up a nearby mountain – mount Marston. The camp host advised us that the road wasn’t good and wasn’t really suitable for such a low slung small car but we thought we would try anyway. beautiful meadows contrasting with burnt out trees The road was marked as a paved road on one map and a gravel on the other so we just hoped for the best. It was a 15 mile drive up to the look out tower so we needed the road to be quite decent. The first 4 miles we good, gravel but quite good, we passed a craggy looking area and marked it for investigation on the way down. We had been disappointed that the road wasn’t paved but we pressed on anyway. Mile 5 beckoned and hurtling down the track towards us was a huge – seriously huge - cloud of dust enveloping a logging lorry that we hoped had spotted us as it was going so fast there was no way it would miss us ...