Went "accidentally" off-road.
No, I didn't miss a corner or anything like that.
My wife, and my two boys went to find a place for a short hike, I searched on a bushwalking app, found a likely prospect, and put the position into Goolgemaps.
My wife wanted to take our little station wagon, but I said, "no, there are some dirt roads by the look of it", and she doesn't like to take the Skoda on dirt roads if we can help it, just to keep it a bit nice.
So we took the Cruiser.
The track was definitely more than you should take a nice-ish car, so we were glad to take the cruiser, but I didn't even lock the hubs in at first. A couple of steepish but good track sections, so I found a spot, stopped, and locked the hubs in, but left it in 2WD.
Eventually I put it into 4x4, but only for control, not because we needed to.
Then we came across a fallen tree over the track, but there was break around it, which we followed. 4x4 required for that, but only just, not difficult.
We have had a fair bit of rain here lately, so the tracks further on were "gullied out" you know, a wash gully down the middle.
It looked terrible, but of course, we put a wheel either side and it was like smooth track.
Anyway - nothing incredibly challenging, but unexpected.
We thought it was going to be at worst good dirt track suitable for any car, so it was a really nice surprise for me to get in a little 4x4ing.
The Cruiser was, of course, absolutely above it all, as expected.
The walk was really nice too - a couple of kms of nice bush with some waterfalls along the way.
The track out was good track - they wouldn't let me go back out the way we came in - the wife and boys that is....!


