Down The Track Overview

Heading south out of Darwin on the Stuart Hwy., vast stretches of road sprawl out between the few spartan settlements that offer refuge to parched travelers. Traffic may not roll by often, but roadside monoliths and stray marsupials try to keep lonesome drivers company. Expanses of scrubland stretch out in all directions, and the horizons only hint at the scale of the unoccupied space that surrounds Australia’s major central corridor.

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