Cubberla Creek from Thomas MacLeod Avenue
Access verdict · Lawful, with caveats · weakest evidence in the chain: statutory inference
A lawful approach from Thomas MacLeod 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.
On-ground signage and temporary closures override this page. Always.
Getting to the start The trailhead coordinate, not the feature
The start is at -27.53218, 152.95435
That is Thomas MacLeod Avenue, where the walk below begins — 4.5 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.
- Google Maps one link for a desktop browser, Android or iPhone
- Apple Maps the default on iPhone and Mac
- Your own map app hands the coordinate to an installed app, offline ones included
-27.53218, 152.95435
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
| # | Runs along | Parcel / reference | Mapped along it | Distance | Bearing | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Road reserve | 2781107 | nothing mapped | 194.9 m | 303.5° WNW | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 2 | Road reserve | 2778105 | nothing mapped | 80.3 m | 311.0° NW | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 3 | Road reserve | 336840 | nothing mapped | 63.8 m | 24.9° NNE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 4 | Watercourse bed | 337714 | nothing mapped | 263.2 m | 316.5° NW | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 5 | Watercourse bed | 2288746 | nothing mapped | 156.3 m | 306.0° NW | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 6 | Watercourse bed | 2287872 | nothing mapped | 207.7 m | 296.7° WNW | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 7 | Road reserve | 2287834 | nothing mapped | 265.2 m | 9.4° N | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 8 | Road reserve | 2286960 | nothing mapped | 20.5 m | 24.8° NNE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 9 | Road reserve | 2439644 | nothing mapped | 406.6 m | 11.8° NNE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 10 | Road reserve | 2439606 | nothing mapped | 89.0 m | 60.2° ENE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 11 | Road reserve | 2438846 | nothing mapped | 20.7 m | 86.3° E | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 12 | Road reserve | 2435692 | nothing mapped | 185.1 m | 74.1° ENE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 13 | Road reserve | 2435046 | nothing mapped | 23.3 m | 69.6° ENE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 14 | Road reserve | 2430638 | nothing mapped | 92.6 m | 32.4° NNE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 15 | Road reserve | 2450930 | nothing mapped | 295.5 m | 45.8° NE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 16 | Road reserve | 3071318 | nothing mapped | 27.0 m | 24.1° NNE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 17 | Watercourse bed | 3070900 | nothing mapped | 147.7 m | 86.1° E | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 18 | Watercourse bed | 3106012 | nothing mapped | 122.2 m | 85.4° E | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 19 | Watercourse bed | 3107152 | nothing mapped | 158.5 m | 77.0° ENE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 20 | Watercourse bed | 3107076 | nothing mapped | 191.4 m | 94.9° E | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 21 | Watercourse bed | 3109090 | nothing mapped | 146.7 m | 104.3° ESE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 22 | Watercourse bed | 3110382 | nothing mapped | 363.4 m | 160.4° SSE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 23 | Watercourse bed | 3110534 | nothing mapped | 112.3 m | 179.3° S | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 24 | Watercourse bed | 3110762 | nothing mapped | 99.6 m | 214.8° SW | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 25 | Watercourse bed | 3129192 | nothing mapped | 117.8 m | 103.5° ESE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 26 | Watercourse bed | 3129382 | nothing mapped | 130.4 m | 90.2° E | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 27 | Watercourse bed | 3130750 | nothing mapped | 221.4 m | 149.5° SSE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 28 | Road reserve | 3130560 | nothing mapped | 18.9 m | 47.6° NE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 29 | Watercourse bed | 3128812 | nothing mapped | 256.3 m | 54.8° NE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| Total | no way mapped | 4478.3 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 336840 and 2288746 is 96.28 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 337714 and 2287872 is 82.17 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2288746 and 2287834 is 204.82 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 3071318 and 3106012 is 51.85 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 3070900 and 3107152 is 121.68 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 3106012 and 3107076 is 156.63 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 3107152 and 3109090 is 186.12 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 3107076 and 3110382 is 141.12 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 3109090 and 3110534 is 359.08 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 3110382 and 3110762 is 105.29 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 3110534 and 3129192 is 95.04 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 3110762 and 3129382 is 103.07 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 3129192 and 3130750 is 127.44 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 3129382 and 3130560 is 53.80 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 2 hours out and back
at least 1 hour there at least 1 hour back
45 m up and 50 m down on the way out — so the return leg climbs 50 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
- 45.0 m
- Total descent
- 50.0 m
- Steepest sustained
- 29.0% over 51.7 m
- Contour interval
- 5.0 m
Every height the contours record along this route
| Distance along | Height |
|---|---|
| 288.8 m | 10.0 m |
| 326.3 m | 5.0 m |
| 976.0 m | 5.0 m |
| 998.4 m | 10.0 m |
| 1063.4 m | 15.0 m |
| 1104.5 m | 20.0 m |
| 1126.9 m | 25.0 m |
| 1142.3 m | 30.0 m |
| 1156.2 m | 35.0 m |
| 1180.7 m | 40.0 m |
| 1211.8 m | 45.0 m |
| 1215.7 m | 45.0 m |
| 1217.3 m | 45.0 m |
| 1225.4 m | 45.0 m |
| 1244.8 m | 45.0 m |
| 1259.5 m | 45.0 m |
| 1295.6 m | 40.0 m |
| 1333.1 m | 35.0 m |
| 1445.4 m | 30.0 m |
| 1504.2 m | 25.0 m |
| 1677.4 m | 20.0 m |
| 1895.5 m | 15.0 m |
| 1902.8 m | 15.0 m |
| 1978.7 m | 15.0 m |
| 2005.7 m | 15.0 m |
| 2038.9 m | 20.0 m |
| 2104.3 m | 20.0 m |
| 2138.2 m | 20.0 m |
| 2145.2 m | 20.0 m |
| 2238.8 m | 15.0 m |
| 2257.9 m | 15.0 m |
| 2264.2 m | 15.0 m |
| 2384.0 m | 10.0 m |
| 2435.8 m | 10.0 m |
| 2487.9 m | 10.0 m |
| 3304.9 m | 5.0 m |
| 3763.6 m | 5.0 m |
| 3802.9 m | 5.0 m |
| 4131.9 m | 5.0 m |
| 4149.8 m | 5.0 m |
| 4162.9 m | 5.0 m |
| 4189.5 m | 5.0 m |
| 4276.2 m | 5.0 m |
| 4424.2 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: 29 legs from Thomas MacLeod Avenue, 4478.3 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 3128508, 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: 2781107 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
194.9 m at 303.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 2781107 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 2: 2778105 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
80.3 m at 311.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 2778105 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 3: 336840 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
63.8 m at 24.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 336840 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 4: 337714 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
263.2 m at 316.5°. 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 337714 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 5: 2288746 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
156.3 m at 306.0°. 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 2288746 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 6: 2287872 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
207.7 m at 296.7°. 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 2287872 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 7: 2287834 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
265.2 m at 9.4°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 2287834 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 8: 2286960 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
20.5 m at 24.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 2286960 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 9: 2439644 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
406.6 m at 11.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 2439644 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 10: 2439606 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
89.0 m at 60.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 2439606 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 11: 2438846 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
20.7 m at 86.3°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 2438846 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 12: 2435692 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
185.1 m at 74.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 2435692 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 13: 2435046 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
23.3 m at 69.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 2435046 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 14: 2430638 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
92.6 m at 32.4°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 2430638 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 15: 2450930 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
295.5 m at 45.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 2450930 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 16: 3071318 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
27.0 m at 24.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 3071318 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 17: 3070900 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
147.7 m at 86.1°. 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 3070900 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 18: 3106012 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
122.2 m at 85.4°. 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 3106012 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 19: 3107152 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
158.5 m at 77.0°. 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 3107152 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 20: 3107076 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
191.4 m at 94.9°. 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 3107076 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 21: 3109090 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
146.7 m at 104.3°. 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 3109090 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 22: 3110382 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
363.4 m at 160.4°. 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 3110382 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 23: 3110534 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
112.3 m at 179.3°. 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 3110534 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 24: 3110762 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
99.6 m at 214.8°. 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 3110762 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 25: 3129192 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
117.8 m at 103.5°. 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 3129192 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 26: 3129382 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
130.4 m at 90.2°. 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 3129382 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 27: 3130750 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
221.4 m at 149.5°. 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 3130750 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 28: 3130560 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
18.9 m at 47.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 3130560 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 29: 3128812 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
256.3 m at 54.8°. 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 3128812 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
- Cubberla Creek
- Lot on plan
- 3128508
- Coordinates
- -27.52231, 152.96872 (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