It is fitting that we end this series by returning to whence we set out: the Redcliffe Peninsula, and to its world famous export, The Bee Gees. In recent years the Council has renamed a whole street after them and decked it out with memorabilia from their singing career.
On his most recent visit to Redcliffe, Barry Gibb, the oldest and only surviving member of the pop group, told a reporter of the life changing decision they had made as young teenagers. Like many others with too much time on their hands, the three brothers amused themselves by stealing goods from the local shops. However, Barry’s conscience got the better of him, and he took his younger siblings, Maurice and Robin, and their contraband good out to the end of the Redcliffe Jetty and announced to them that they had to make a decision: do we carry on with our stealing or do we do something useful with our lives?
They threw all their stolen goods off the end of the jetty. The rest is history…
Moreton Bay History 
I had a search for the P-39 Airacobra that collided with another off Redcliffe in 1942. A trawler skipper saw the wreck underwater on a winter`s day when the water cleared up. He said the wings had been folded back. Unfortunately, his directions took us from a mile north of the pier to close to that structure but, due to the murky water, we never located it. So the pier is a reference point for a lot of people.
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A boat controlling a drone would be a good way to go, Ross. Time is right too, with our calm winter weather.
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For the record, Colin Petersen, drummer for the Bee Gees c.1967 is alive and well.
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