If you've got a 4x4 the F26 dirt road running through the middle of the island is pretty spectacular. It suffers badly from washboarding though, and there are two ways to deal with it. The first is to drive slowly, which is really uncomfortable as you bounce up and down over the washboard ridges, but it means you can avoid the larger potholes. The second way is to drive really quickly, skim over the washboard, but it means you can't avoid the big potholes and just end up thumping into them. Because I was driving we took the second option. When we returned the hire car (a chocolate brown Hyundai Sante Fe) we had to make sure we didn't open the driver's door and the passenger door at the same time. If you did, the car made an unpleasant creaking sound, and it was really really hard to shut the doors again...
If you've got a 4x4 the F26 dirt road running through the middle of the island is pretty spectacular. It suffers badly from washboarding though, and there are two ways to deal with it. The first is to drive slowly, which is really uncomfortable as you bounce up and down over the washboard ridges, but it means you can avoid the larger potholes. The second way is to drive really quickly, skim over the washboard, but it means you can't avoid the big potholes and just end up thumping into them. Because I was driving we took the second option. When we returned the hire car (a chocolate brown Hyundai Sante Fe) we had to make sure we didn't open the driver's door and the passenger door at the same time. If you did, the car made an unpleasant creaking sound, and it was really really hard to shut the doors again...