Day 9: Follow the Matilda Highway to Ilfracombe, once a transport hub for Wellshot Station, the largest sheep station in the world at the time. Arrive early and catch the 11.30am performance of ‘The Sheep’s Back’. Sit back and be entertained with stories of the life of a shearer and his wife, followed by smoko with the actors. Walk The Great Machinery Mile, a graphic timeline of the evolution of the pastoral and transport industries then cool off with a swim in the Artesian Spa. Now here’s a name that will have the kids puzzled – Isisfordia duncani. Take a wander through Isisford’s Outer Barcoo Interpretation Centre to learn more about the world’s most primitive crocodile that lived almost 100 million years ago. Named after the former Deputy Mayor of Isisford, the first fossils were found in the mid-1990s in a dried up creek bed on the outskirts of the town. Travel on to Blackall, your destination for the evening.