Huge said:
No where on the through trip sumps. My comments were only meant to to convey that conditions seem to have returned to normal.
I assume if you're asking about water levels in Daren that you maybe going to the far end. The bottom end of the Bonsai Streamway can get deep in wet weather but I would have thought it would be back to normal by now. The duck at the top end of Ankle Grinder would have sumped of course with Ankle Grinder itself becoming active. I would assume it is passable again by now but I've never been there in wet weather so don't know the characteristics.
I don't think there's anywhere else on the usual routes that become a problem in/after wet weather.
It's only a short stretch of Bonsai that gets deep - just before Hard Rock. Known as DamPool - gets about chest deep and maybe 5-10m long. As Huge says, it should be down by now.
The duck at the top end of Ankle Grinder can sump and typically responds about 5 - 7 hours after rain. So typically if it isn't raining when you go in to Daren, you'll probably be okay passing through Ankle Grinder. If the cave beyond Hard Rock is in the process of flooding, a good warning sign is a strong air flow / pulse in Rock Steady Cruise. It can be quite a strong draught - I've been sandblasted crawling through RSC on a few occasions. Many years ago, a group started to head down The Micron and scrambled up quickly as a wall of water raced passed them.
The duck / sump at the end of Ankle Grinder can take a long time to drop - two of my friends were stuck at Restaurant at the End of Universe for a week until the water subsided. No rescue call out ever happened as they were planning to be there all week anyway and so no one knew they were cut off. It did affect them though - knowing they were cut off affected the psychology and made them much more risk averse in terms of their digging / exploring efforts that week.