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Russell Island is an island, a town, and a locality in the City of Redland, Queensland, Australia Russell Island in Redland City is the biggest of the Southern Moreton Bay Islands, situated between the mainland and North Stradbroke Island. The island is eight kilometers long (north-to-south) and nearly three kilometers wide. The channel separating it from the mainland is known as Main Channel and the channel separating it from North Stradbroke Island is known as Canaipa Passage. Farmers and oystermen were the first full-time inhabitants, but with the arrival of the Jackson family in 1906, a small village was created on the western side of the island called Jacksonville, which had a sawmill, pineapple canning factory, jetty, and even a picture theatre.[6] Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Island_(Moreton_Bay)

It's not THE Bribie Island jetty, but a temporary jetty (1923-24) put in by the Brisbane Tug Company at Bongaree to enable the unloading of stone from ships and lighters (from Brisbane) for the road that they were building (rt hand background) across the sandy island to the ocean surf beach . The height of the structure enabled the small tram trucks to be emptied onto a stockpile at the far end from which the stone could be later elevated and put into trucks for taking to the head of road construction. The main Bribie Island jetty is just out of the picture, to the right. The history of it is detailed in "Light Railways" magazine, No.259, Feb 2018. www.lrrsa.org.au The whole point of course was to popularise Bribie Island and get more tourists and day-trippers to take a trip on the Tug Company's pleasure steamers. (they succeeded!). Credit G P Campbell with the whole idea.

McKenzie’s Jetty is one such location, it lies only 1.4 nautical miles or 2.5 kilometers south of Kingfisher Bay Resort. Ensuring help is never too far away nor are the fabulous restaurants and refreshing bars of the award-winning eco-resort. In making your way to McKenzie’s Jetty you have a couple of options. McKenzie’s Jetty holds loads of history, probably the most fascinating of which centers around the Australian Z-Special-Unit who used the area around the jetty during World War Two for training. I don’t want to spoil it for you, but you can read about this epic piece of Australian history on the information boards located a short walk away, just behind the trees along with some solidly built picnic tables. Source: fishingboatingexploring.com.au/boating-to-mckenzies-jetty/