Ellenbrae, also commonly referred to as Ellenbrae Station, is a
pastoral lease that operates as a
cattle station
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in
Western Australia
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.
It is situated about south of
Wyndham and north of
Halls Creek
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not far off the
Gibb River Road
The Gibb River Road is a road in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.
Description
The road is a former cattle route that stretches in an east-west direction almost through the Kimberley between the towns of Derby and the Kununurra and ...
. The
Durack River
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The river rises below the Durack Range then flows north, discharging into the west arm of Cambridge Gulf.
There are 14 tributaries of the Durack, including Chapman River, ...
runs through a portion of the property.
[ It lies on land that was traditionally occupied by the Wardia clan of the Wurla indigenous people.
The property occupies an area of , and also operates as a tourist resort during the dry season.
The Terry family purchased the property in 1983, and it was managed by their sons Byrne and Edward Terry for a period of time. Later, Byrne Terry and his wife took over management of Ellenbrae Station, diversifying it for tourism and allowing travellers to enjoy the beauty of the land and stay in onsite cabins. Byrne was a pastoralist who worked hard to raise ecological awareness of the land, and had an artistic eye for detail. Using raw natural Australian materials, he hand-made a number of furniture and wall décor pieces for the property, as well as fashioning a bathtub feature built into a 1000 year old ]boab
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tree. Byrne died unexpectedly at 41 years of age in 2001. During the 1990s the area was plagued by successive bushfires
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, with the herd of cattle dropping from 10,000 head to 3,000.
The property was later purchased by Rino and Diana Grollo from Melbourne, who still own it as of present.
In 2008 the pastoral manager was Susan Bradley and the station managers were Brian and Marcia Withell, who were originally from New Zealand
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and took over running the property in 2005.
See also
*List of ranches and stations
This is a list of ranches and sheep and cattle stations, organized by continent. Most of these are notable either for the large geographic area which they cover, or for their historical or cultural importance.
West Africa
*Obudu Cattle Ranch
* S ...
References
External links
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{{Stations of the Kimberley Western Australia
Kimberley (Western Australia)
Stations (Australian agriculture)
Pastoral leases in Western Australia