Hi Alf just picked up your post,yes the old road is passable with care in a car just remember to always put your tyres on the high spots and drive with the tyres over any large rocks in order to protect the sump.Regrds ...Eddy
We tried for your Bonellis on the Ojen without any luck, but we travelled on west and as you say it's passable with care. We saw another car coming in the opposite direction making heavy weather of it by trying to drive in the tracks instead of picking a route through the pots and helping the wheels high.
The passenger looked as if she was having trouble hanging onto her fillings as they passed.
At Facinas the sun was getting out, despite the TV forecast so I headed on into La Janda.
I'd advise anyone without a 4WD or a car with particularly high clearance to avoid this access until someone has the gumption to fill in the pots at the Facinas end of the track. There are numerous holes going back several years that I've plotted a route through and they are passable with a bit of thought, but the worst of the lot was the first, on the track as it curves past the start to the wind subsidy farm.
I took to today, taking the right hand side of the track, which looked the best at the time, but even so I managed to scrape the front cross member that protected the exhaust on the Fiat.
Once you are past the subsidy bird-munchers it's better, so anyone with a normal car looking to capitalise on the Monties, I'd advise them to take the long trip and approach from the Benalup end and bite the bullet on time and fuel and double back rather than either exit or enter at Facinas.
Once I was past the worst of the pots a male Monty took off from next to the road and at the start of the holm oaks a juvenile Bonelli's performed low and close after M spotted it flying in front of the trees.
