We got to experience a little of the wet season. In the north they have the wet and the dry for seasons. Many vehicles here are 4 wheel drives with a snorkel coming out the top of the vehicle so they can wade through deep road floods. In many places posts are placed by the road with meter measurements marked on them, sometimes as high as 5 meters. So when the road is flooded you can tell how deep it is by looking at the posts.
The road on the left was a side road and not on our route. Apparently the locals take advantage of a flood to go for a swim. For us it was too much of a flood and crocs are always on our minds. This was in the Kimberlies, which is an area between Broome and Kununarra. It's a beautiful place, wild and lush in the wet season, and dotted with boab trees.
Kyra on the left is laughing because we just splashed through a small flood over the road. We can't go anywhere deep with our 2 wheel drive and no snorkel. You can see the water and the white measurement post behind us.
It was really lovely to see water and rain. You don't appreciate it so much until you've been dried out in a brown land for some time. Water is life.
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