 The Ella Bay property comprises 470 hectares of freehold land used as a cattle station that is isolated within the Ella Bay National Park and Wet Tropics of Queensland and a 160 acre rainforest block named Little Cove.The Ella Bay site was first surveyed in 1882 and large areas of the site were later cleared for banana production and small crop farming.There are numerous newspaper reports from the early 1900s of Ella Bay being one of the major banana growing areas in Queensland.