......when the owners Range Rover is bogged up to the axles in the middle.

I wish we could send the rain and snow we have had so far this week to our brethren further North. If it keeps up though, we should have masses of hay to send to NSW by Christmas.

Maybe if the runway was bitumen that might make more of a story.

When you get there, if the car meeting you is 90 degrees to the runway, don’t land, divert to “x” as the strip is too wet.
Arrived, car parked parallel to strip = strip dry. On downwind I can see surface water reflections so divert to x.
Outcome the car was bogged. Let’s hope some droughties cars get bogged this weekend.

all locals already donating hay. my 29 rounds may go too if they are judged not spoiled too much

More STOL than Draco :}

Pilotette does that Cessna Caravan have a high/low ratio gearbox, lockable diffs and 3WD?

Mitchell Plateau in the Kimberley. Part of the strip always floods during the wet, this was that part :uhoh:

Haha Sunfish, it needed all that plus a Snorkel!

A/ it takes 30in/hg to taxi out
B/ the props are tinged green from the landing.
C/ the guy who really really really wants his mail won’t give a definitive answer(dry) as to the state of his strip.
D/ the windsock has blown off the pole and is Lying in a puddle near the strip.
E/ the engines are flooded..... and not by Avgas.

I once landed on a jungle helipad in Belize and had to wade through two feet of water* to get to the radio room to get a message to the intended destination to say we'd had to divert due to their bad weather.

*we had expected to walk across a football pitch.

In PNG an American Priest sending a strip report on HF early one morning
- with a broad southern accent
" Maprik is wet and slippery"