Bulimba Creek from Goodman Place
Access verdict · Lawful, with caveats · weakest evidence in the chain: statutory inference
A lawful approach from Goodman Place, 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.
On-ground signage and temporary closures override this page. Always.
Getting to the start The trailhead coordinate, not the feature
The start is at -27.46216, 153.11165
That is Goodman Place, where the walk below begins — 5.8 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.
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-27.46216, 153.11165
The record does not say what reaches the start The roads layer leaves trafficability unstated on most of its rows, and it is unstated here. That is an absence of evidence, not an ordinary road: treat the last stretch as unresearched.
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
| # | Runs along | Parcel / reference | Mapped along it | Distance | Bearing | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Road reserve | 1391492 | nothing mapped | 53.4 m | 169.5° S | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 2 | Road reserve | 1391986 | nothing mapped | 67.7 m | 162.8° SSE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 3 | Watercourse bed | 1391150 | nothing mapped | 890.4 m | 62.1° ENE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 4 | Watercourse bed | 1390048 | nothing mapped | 196.7 m | 69.5° ENE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 5 | Watercourse bed | 1390010 | nothing mapped | 235.3 m | 181.6° S | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 6 | Watercourse bed | 1389972 | nothing mapped | 520.8 m | 192.4° SSW | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 7 | Watercourse bed | 1389820 | nothing mapped | 735.4 m | 57.7° ENE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 8 | Watercourse bed | 1274978 | nothing mapped | 15.6 m | 332.7° NNW | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 9 | Watercourse bed | 1389668 | nothing mapped | 19.6 m | 4.8° N | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 10 | Watercourse bed | 1389516 | nothing mapped | 783.7 m | 343.5° NNW | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 11 | Watercourse bed | 1389174 | nothing mapped | 186.1 m | 264.8° W | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 12 | Road reserve | 1389060 | nothing mapped | 394.3 m | 17.4° NNE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 13 | Road reserve | 1388946 | nothing mapped | 23.0 m | 358.8° N | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 14 | Road reserve | 1305232 | nothing mapped | 199.4 m | 357.0° N | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 15 | Road reserve | 1305308 | nothing mapped | 94.9 m | 256.4° WSW | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 16 | Watercourse bed | 1305536 | nothing mapped | 80.5 m | 329.7° NNW | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 17 | Watercourse bed | 1387882 | nothing mapped | 37.5 m | 318.5° NW | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 18 | Watercourse bed | 1304130 | nothing mapped | 55.7 m | 329.5° NNW | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 19 | Watercourse bed | 1304168 | nothing mapped | 535.9 m | 275.6° W | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 20 | Watercourse bed | 1323016 | nothing mapped | 407.0 m | 311.6° NW | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 21 | Watercourse bed | 1304092 | nothing mapped | 57.8 m | 277.6° W | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 22 | Watercourse bed | 1323928 | nothing mapped | 58.9 m | 318.5° NW | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 23 | Road reserve | 1323966 | nothing mapped | 6.9 m | 278.9° W | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 24 | Watercourse bed | 1323054 | nothing mapped | 79.3 m | 304.6° NW | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 25 | Watercourse bed | 1323092 | nothing mapped | 28.1 m | 336.3° NNW | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 26 | Watercourse bed | 1296530 | nothing mapped | 21.8 m | 298.3° WNW | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| Total | no way mapped | 5785.7 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 1391986 and 1390048 is 782.90 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1391150 and 1390010 is 0.00 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1390048 and 1389972 is 166.83 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1390010 and 1389820 is 80.00 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1389972 and 1274978 is 463.53 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1389820 and 1389668 is 0.00 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1274978 and 1389516 is 0.00 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1389668 and 1389174 is 484.85 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1389516 and 1389060 is 164.84 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1305308 and 1387882 is 71.34 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1305536 and 1304130 is 35.13 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1387882 and 1304168 is 55.16 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1304130 and 1323016 is 523.08 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1304168 and 1304092 is 403.33 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1323016 and 1323928 is 0.00 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1304092 and 1323966 is 38.50 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1323966 and 1323092 is 0.00 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1323054 and 1296530 is 0.00 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 2½ hours out and back
at least 1¼ hours there at least 1¼ hours back
10 m up and 10 m down on the way out — so the return leg climbs 10 m.
Walking only — nothing is counted for rest, water, photographs, navigation, or the state of the track.
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 Read off the published contour layer
- Total climb
- 10.0 m
- Total descent
- 10.0 m
- Steepest sustained
- 7.7% over 64.7 m
- Contour interval
- 5.0 m
Every height the contours record along this route
| Distance along | Height |
|---|---|
| 53.3 m | 5.0 m |
| 169.5 m | 5.0 m |
| 291.9 m | 10.0 m |
| 398.3 m | 15.0 m |
| 662.8 m | 15.0 m |
| 727.5 m | 10.0 m |
| 796.7 m | 5.0 m |
The profile is the height the contour layer already records, read along the same line the legs above describe. It is not a survey of a path: nothing here says the ground between two contours is even, and a layer of 5.0 m contours cannot evidence a step smaller than the gap between them.
The line on the ground
Map
Route map: 26 legs from Goodman Place, 5785.7 m in total.
What the colours mean
- Land — the council area the region is published under
- Water beyond the council boundary
- Freehold or leasehold — no public access
- National park / protected estate — public land
- Road reserve
- Watercourse
- Track recorded by the managing authority
- Contour, every 10 m of height — nothing is implied about the ground between two of them
- Tenure unresolved — treated as no access
- Where your device says you are, shown only if you press the locate button — read as a rough fix, not a position, and never sent anywhere
- A place with a published approach — the pin is a link to it
- A place with none — every one is listed under the map with its verdict in words
- Where a published approach starts — each one has a page of its own below
- The walk — the line the legs below describe, not a surveyed path
- The parcels it crosses — the evidence the walk is lawful
- Watercourse crossing — no structure, off in high flow
Names on the map come from the same official records as the rest of the page — road and track names from the cadastre and the access layer, watercourses and estates from their own layers. A feature the record does not name is left unlabelled rather than guessed at.
Sources, licences and dataset versions for everything this map draws.
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
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The destination sits on the parcel below Official spatial — evidence class
Parcel 1296530, 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
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Leg 1: 1391492 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
53.4 m at 169.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1391492 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 2: 1391986 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
67.7 m at 162.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1391986 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 3: 1391150 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
890.4 m at 62.1°. 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 1391150 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 4: 1390048 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
196.7 m at 69.5°. 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 1390048 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 5: 1390010 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
235.3 m at 181.6°. 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 1390010 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 6: 1389972 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
520.8 m at 192.4°. 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 1389972 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 7: 1389820 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
735.4 m at 57.7°. 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 1389820 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 8: 1274978 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
15.6 m at 332.7°. 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 1274978 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 9: 1389668 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
19.6 m at 4.8°. 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 1389668 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 10: 1389516 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
783.7 m at 343.5°. 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 1389516 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 11: 1389174 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
186.1 m at 264.8°. 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 1389174 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 12: 1389060 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
394.3 m at 17.4°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1389060 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 13: 1388946 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
23.0 m at 358.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1388946 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 14: 1305232 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
199.4 m at 357.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1305232 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 15: 1305308 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
94.9 m at 256.4°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1305308 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 16: 1305536 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
80.5 m at 329.7°. 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 1305536 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 17: 1387882 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
37.5 m at 318.5°. 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 1387882 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 18: 1304130 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
55.7 m at 329.5°. 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 1304130 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 19: 1304168 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
535.9 m at 275.6°. 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 1304168 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 20: 1323016 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
407.0 m at 311.6°. 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 1323016 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 21: 1304092 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
57.8 m at 277.6°. 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 1304092 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 22: 1323928 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
58.9 m at 318.5°. 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 1323928 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 23: 1323966 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
6.9 m at 278.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1323966 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 24: 1323054 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
79.3 m at 304.6°. 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 1323054 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 25: 1323092 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
28.1 m at 336.3°. 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 1323092 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 26: 1296530 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
21.8 m at 298.3°. 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 1296530 Grade statutory_inference
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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
If something goes wrong
Emergency reference — read this to 000
- Location
- Bulimba Creek
- Lot on plan
- 1296530
- Coordinates
- -27.44444, 153.11139 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
- Feature
- watercourse
What this approach was read from
- Cadastral data Queensland (DCDB), incl. easement layer — © State of Queensland (Department of Resources) CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-22
- Queensland LiDAR-derived contours (5 m) — © State of Queensland CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-22
- Queensland local government area boundaries — © State of Queensland CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-27
- Queensland place names gazetteer — © State of Queensland CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-16