Over the years Coffs Harbour has seen forays into dairying, goldmining, timber and sugarcane but it was the switch to bananas that saw the area really thrive, and the city is of course famous to many as the home of the ‘Big Banana’.
Coffs Harbour, on the Pacific Highway is right in the middle of Brisbane and Sydney, south of Woolgoola and about 50km north of Nambucca Heads.
The Big Banana itself is modelled on a prize winning banana, while the complex built up around it includes an ice rink - not exactly the first thing that comes to mind when you think of bananas.