When some stealth was required, as it was for his second foray to the C-47, his guards bore him along the crushed shell road.

The windbreak was maybe a hundred yards deep, with more fields beyond cut through by a regular crosswork of shell roads.

The white shell road is visible down the centre of the peninsula and the wooden wharf is clearly visible extending about 15m into the river.

The new Catholic cemetery is outside the old gate, some distance, and to the east of the shell road.

I turned, and, through the tangled vines, I saw her distant and tiny, like a white flame on the faint luminescent shell road.

There was an official car parked at the entrance to the shell road that led to Waxwell's place.

Then we took a shell road, deserted at this time of night.

Crawford's rented car raised thin dust that settled on the bushes beside the shell road.

"There's a shell road back there."

She expertly dropped the tires of the helicopter onto the crushed shell road that ran along the top of the levee.