 Henley on Todd Regatta |
 Hush... the first notes of the flute waft through the balmy air. Two hundred pairs of hands wave gracefully - keeping time with the flies, rampant after recent rains. The silhouetted crags of the ancient MacDonnell Ranges form a magnificent open-air backdrop as the heat fades from the harsh Central Australian sun. Bedtime for flies, too, at last.
If chamber music is still a fragile flower in the Centre, the Henley-on-Todd Regatta is in robust good health. Even the spooks from the hush-hush intelligence facility at Pine Gap prepare their Oxford tubs and rowing eights and practise sand shovelling for this annual afternoon of in-your-face slapstick.
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