NERIDAH STOCKLEY AND BEN WALL’S HOUSE was once nicknamed ‘The Shipwreck’. That’s because “it washed up on the banks of the Todd River sometime in the ’60s or ’70s, from a uranium mine near a place called Rum Jungle in the Top End”, says Ben. It’s definitely been moved from somewhere; you can see where the floorboards have been clearly sliced through with a circular saw, cutting the house in half and making the pieces narrow enough to fit on the back of trucks.
It now sits at the beginning of the Ross Highway a few kilometres outside Alice Springs, but as far as highways go, this one’s pretty quiet. Before
