Public Trails Computed from official land records

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Bridgewater Creek from Walter Avenue

entry is a road chain confidence Statutory inference — evidence class bridgewater-creek--from-walter-avenue

Access verdict · Lawful, with caveats · weakest evidence in the chain: statutory inference

A lawful approach from Walter Avenue, with caveats.

The chain below runs entirely across land the public has an established right to be on. It is a legal line, not a path: nothing here has been surveyed on the ground.

What this verdict means · what the evidence grades mean

On-ground signage and temporary closures override this page. Always.

Getting to the start The trailhead coordinate, not the feature

The start is at -27.47984, 153.04950

That is Walter Avenue, where the walk below begins — 1.5 km of it. Every link here goes to that coordinate and never to the feature itself, because a driving route to a waterfall is a driving route into the country above one.

-27.47984, 153.04950

An ordinary car reaches the start The roads layer marks the road reaching this point as trafficable by an ordinary vehicle.

The coordinate is where the recorded way begins, read off the same layers as the walk. What the record says about a vehicle is above, and it describes this point rather than the drive to it. Whether the road is sealed, gated, or open today, and where a car may lawfully be left, are none of them things these records say — so treat the last few kilometres as unresearched, and the mapping service's route to them as its own work, not ours.

The chain, leg by leg Computed from cadastral geometry; never walked

Legs of the computed corridor, in order, with the grade of the record that made each one lawful
# Runs along Parcel / reference Mapped along it Distance Bearing Evidence
1 Road reserve 2431707 nothing mapped 42.2 m 308.9° NW Official spatial — evidence class
2 Road reserve 2123527 nothing mapped 20.3 m 21.7° NNE Official spatial — evidence class
3 Watercourse bed 2126795 nothing mapped 31.6 m 49.9° NE Statutory inference — evidence class
4 Watercourse bed 2427033 nothing mapped 314.7 m 38.8° NE Statutory inference — evidence class
5 Watercourse bed 2427717 nothing mapped 262.5 m 103.0° ESE Statutory inference — evidence class
6 Watercourse bed 2438547 nothing mapped 339.6 m 130.3° SE Statutory inference — evidence class
7 Watercourse bed 2433379 nothing mapped 87.3 m 148.2° SSE Statutory inference — evidence class
8 Watercourse bed 2433417 nothing mapped 66.5 m 180.1° S Statutory inference — evidence class
9 Watercourse bed 2530697 nothing mapped 192.3 m 186.4° S Statutory inference — evidence class
10 Watercourse bed 1730037 nothing mapped 138.0 m 203.4° SSW Statutory inference — evidence class
Total no way mapped 1495.0 m Chain confidence Statutory inference — evidence class

Every leg above is computed from cadastral geometry. Nobody has walked it, and no part of it is a path on the ground: it is the line along which the public record establishes a right to be. Where a leg names a way, that is what a managing authority has mapped down the same ground — it says nothing more about your right to be there, which the parcel already settled.

Caveats — what has to be said before walking this

  • Corner-point junction. Two parcels in the chain meet at a single survey point. They are legally continuous public land, but the junction has no width on the ground.
  • Watercourse crossing. The chain crosses a watercourse bed. The bed is State land by statutory inference, there is no structure, and the crossing is off in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2123527 and 2427033 is 29.14 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2126795 and 2427717 is 141.86 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2427033 and 2438547 is 226.44 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2427717 and 2433379 is 339.63 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2438547 and 2433417 is 85.39 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2433379 and 2530697 is 63.84 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2433417 and 1730037 is 191.44 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The gap between the parcels either side of this crossing could not be measured from the geometry, which is a reason for more caution, not less.

Following it on the ground No published way to follow

at least half an hour out and back

at least a quarter of an hour there at least a quarter of an hour back

Walking only — nothing is counted for rest, water, photographs, navigation, or the state of the track. The climb on this route could not be measured, so the figure is flat-ground time and the real walk is longer.

Naismith's rule, and what it does not account for

No directions are published for this approach. The chain above is a statement about permission, not a path, and turning a run of parcels into "walk north-east for 380 m" would tell you where to walk on evidence nobody holds — including where a way is mapped along it, because what was measured is the chain and not the way. Steps appear here only for a route that follows a surveyed way end to end.

How much climbing No contour cover along this line

No profile is published for this route. The contour layer does not cross its line often enough to describe a climb, and a profile drawn from anything else would be a guess about the ground.

The line on the ground

Map

Route map: 10 legs from Walter Avenue, 1495.0 m in total.

Every figure the map would draw — parcel references, distances, bearings and the crossing gap — is written out in full on this page, so nothing is only visible on the map. If the map does not load, nothing has been lost.

What this verdict rests on Grades compose to the weakest link

  • The destination sits on the parcel below Official spatial — evidence class

    Parcel 1730037, recorded tenure "Watercourse". Being at the destination and reaching it are separate questions, and this page answers only the second.

    Cadastre and protected-area estate layers Attribution licensed

  • Leg 1: 2431707 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    42.2 m at 308.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2431707 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 2: 2123527 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    20.3 m at 21.7°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 2123527 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 3: 2126795 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    31.6 m at 49.9°. The bed is State land by statutory inference from the Water Act 2000 (Qld) s.21 — law applied to a mapped parcel, not a finding by any authority.

    Leg reference 2126795 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 4: 2427033 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    314.7 m at 38.8°. The bed is State land by statutory inference from the Water Act 2000 (Qld) s.21 — law applied to a mapped parcel, not a finding by any authority.

    Leg reference 2427033 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 5: 2427717 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    262.5 m at 103.0°. The bed is State land by statutory inference from the Water Act 2000 (Qld) s.21 — law applied to a mapped parcel, not a finding by any authority.

    Leg reference 2427717 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 6: 2438547 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    339.6 m at 130.3°. The bed is State land by statutory inference from the Water Act 2000 (Qld) s.21 — law applied to a mapped parcel, not a finding by any authority.

    Leg reference 2438547 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 7: 2433379 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    87.3 m at 148.2°. The bed is State land by statutory inference from the Water Act 2000 (Qld) s.21 — law applied to a mapped parcel, not a finding by any authority.

    Leg reference 2433379 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 8: 2433417 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    66.5 m at 180.1°. The bed is State land by statutory inference from the Water Act 2000 (Qld) s.21 — law applied to a mapped parcel, not a finding by any authority.

    Leg reference 2433417 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 9: 2530697 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    192.3 m at 186.4°. The bed is State land by statutory inference from the Water Act 2000 (Qld) s.21 — law applied to a mapped parcel, not a finding by any authority.

    Leg reference 2530697 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 10: 1730037 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    138.0 m at 203.4°. The bed is State land by statutory inference from the Water Act 2000 (Qld) s.21 — law applied to a mapped parcel, not a finding by any authority.

    Leg reference 1730037 Grade statutory_inference

  • The chain is only as strong as its weakest link Statutory inference — evidence class

    Confidence is not an average. It is the weakest class in the chain above, which is why a single inferred leg holds the whole route at statutory inference.

    Composition rule: weakest grade wins Applied at build time

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Location
Bridgewater Creek
Lot on plan
1730037
Coordinates
-27.48369, 153.05639 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
watercourse

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