Driving: Going off-road in Marao, Portugal

From time to time, in a road somewhere, there's a small path inviting for a different experience and I usualy think 'some other day, today is not a good day'. But the willing is there.
So when I saw an advertising from my auto club for a off-road day trip not far from home I thought it was exactly what I was waiting for!

The day before just fill up with gas, check the tyre pressure (and lower it a bit) and print the instructions to go to the meeting place.

Waiting to stamp the road-book

After driving the distance from my home, just less than an hour, we arrived and checked-in to receive the road-bood, a number plate sticker to the front window (cool!), have a coffe and start the off road trip. It was my second organized off-road trip and this time my wife was going with me. The first one was back in 1999 and I covered the CR-V with plastic film! Not now. The idea was to go in a calm trip and enjoy the view. Along these years I did some paths all by myself but a rule is never go alone by an unknown path.
Although October here is usually cold and rainy, this was a hot sunny day, no problems with mud but problems with dust, a lot of dust.

We were 43 participants being 6 'light' like my CR-V (Freelander, A6, X1, Cayenne) and the other 37 'heavy' like Patrol, Discovery, Strakar, Jeep and other. Some old, some new, all 4x4.
It was fun to see in the parking area a Jeep from the world war, but it didn't participate.

The path had too many small rocks, sometimes everything shaked inside the CR-V. It is not new (1999), 180000km already, no problems so far, so slowly we went all the way.

At about half the trip a pause to eat something and take a photo. The dust is visible and not more because it was so dry it just fall off.