The children were peppered randomly around the dry riverbed ... sitting on the dried up bed of the Todd River outside of the town of Alice Springs in desert Australia. I had been sent there ...

Just three days ago it was dry and ... down the bed. Some roads were inundated with cars driving through the flow. RELATED: Christmas Day weather across Australia The Todd River flowing this ...

When the River Runs Dry' is a familiar song in Australia. Some rivers in the arid ... commonly shrink to puddled potholes and dry river beds during the dry season. But rivers also run dry in ...

ALICE SPRINGS, Australia — For 60 years ... Sam Edelman, 40, and Ryan Smith, 27, sat in the dry river bed and drank in celebration.

Looking down on waves of ochre sandstone, serpentine ridgelines and lizard shapes of dry river beds on a sand ... But that’s the mystery of Australia and this ancient desert land.

By Julia Bergin The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau. Sign up to get it by email. Whenever there’s rain in the forecast for the desert town of Mparntwe ...

Inspired by the Henley Royal Regatta, the Australian event began in 1962 and takes place on the bed of the Todd river which is almost perpetually dry. It involves bottomless boats of all shapes ...