Location: The Kimberley is a vast, remote region to the west of Kununurra in northern WA and Hunter River is remote by even Kimberley standards.

Mission Statement:

In 1976 the only python in the world with rough or keeled scales was discovered in a remote uninhabited region of Western Australia known as The Kimberley. Since then only a handful of specimens have been found, all within a tiny area centred around the Hunter River Gorge, and only the previous year that a single pair were collected for a captive breeding project at the Australian Reptile Park. ARP Director, John Weigel, has a permit to collect an additional pair of Rough-scaled pythons for the project, but first he has to find them. Mark joins John and his team of experienced field herpetologists and wildlife officers on a 12 day expedition into the hostile wilds of The Kimberley in search of a second pair of elusive ‘rough scales’ but everything is not as John left it when last he visited the Hunter River Gorge.

The Rough-scaled python (Morelia carinata) is so called because every scale on its back bears a central keeled ridge.

Species recorded during 'After The Flood'