If you do a multi-day walk in the wet season, you are going to get wet. However, getting rained on in the tropics is a far different experience to getting rained on in a cooler climate. Look at the people in the photo at left. It is pouring with rain. They are not wearing rain coats. They are soaked. Do they look miserable? No!
They are smiling. Tropical rain is different.
Walking in the rain can be enjoyable; a raincoat can become an unnecessary weight. 'Breathable" fabrics don't breathe when it's warm so you'll get wet anyway. Why not relax and enjoy it?
But what happens if it's raining when it's time for dinner? Worse, what happens when it's raining when it's time to put up or take down your tent? The answer may come as a surprise.
You can sit in the dry for dinner. You can put up you tent in the dry. The secret is our group fly, shown below on two different Kakadu trips in January.
If it's raining when we set up camp, we put up the fly. If you have a free-standing tent, you can put it up in the shelter of the fly, then bring it out into the rain without getting it wet inside.