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Stable Swamp Creek from Curzon Street

entry is a road 5 m of climb chain confidence Statutory inference — evidence class stable-swamp-creek--from-curzon-street

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

A lawful approach from Curzon Street, 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 -27.53095, 153.00425

That is Curzon Street, where the walk below begins — 3.5 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.

-27.53095, 153.00425

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 4812480 nothing mapped 27.7 m 175.8° S Official spatial — evidence class
2 Watercourse bed 4812860 nothing mapped 99.8 m 262.5° W Statutory inference — evidence class
3 Watercourse bed 225919 nothing mapped 18.0 m 274.5° W Statutory inference — evidence class
4 Watercourse bed 225843 nothing mapped 863.4 m 264.9° W Statutory inference — evidence class
5 Watercourse bed 225881 nothing mapped 250.9 m 199.8° SSW Statutory inference — evidence class
6 Road reserve 225463 nothing mapped 15.2 m 206.1° SSW Official spatial — evidence class
7 Watercourse bed 226071 nothing mapped 1340.4 m 198.0° SSW Statutory inference — evidence class
8 Watercourse bed 226109 nothing mapped 350.5 m 136.0° SE Statutory inference — evidence class
9 Watercourse bed 226147 nothing mapped 556.2 m 77.5° ENE Statutory inference — evidence class
Total no way mapped 3522.1 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 4812480 and 225919 is 85.97 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 4812860 and 225843 is 0.00 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 225919 and 225881 is 853.25 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 225843 and 225463 is 233.04 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 225463 and 226109 is 1338.29 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 226071 and 226147 is 43.04 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 1½ hours out and back

at least three quarters of an hour there at least three quarters of an hour back

5 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.

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 Read off the published contour layer

Distance along the route, 0 to 2314.5 m · height 5.0 to 10.0 m Read off 5.0 m contours along the route's own line Official spatial — evidence class
Total climb
5.0 m
Total descent
10.0 m
Steepest sustained
5.7% over 87.5 m
Contour interval
5.0 m
Every height the contours record along this route
Contour crossings along the route, in order, as distance along the route against mapped height
Distance along Height
6.4 m 10.0 m
23.5 m 5.0 m
116.6 m 5.0 m
131.6 m 5.0 m
507.0 m 5.0 m
844.9 m 5.0 m
1330.4 m 5.0 m
1568.2 m 5.0 m
2187.6 m 5.0 m
2275.1 m 10.0 m
2289.9 m 10.0 m
2314.5 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: 9 legs from Curzon Street, 3522.1 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 4750312, 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: 4812480 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    27.7 m at 175.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 4812480 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 2: 4812860 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    99.8 m at 262.5°. 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 4812860 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 3: 225919 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    18.0 m at 274.5°. 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 225919 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 4: 225843 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    863.4 m at 264.9°. 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 225843 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 5: 225881 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    250.9 m at 199.8°. 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 225881 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 6: 225463 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    15.2 m at 206.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 225463 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 7: 226071 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    1340.4 m at 198.0°. 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 226071 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 8: 226109 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    350.5 m at 136.0°. 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 226109 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 9: 226147 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    556.2 m at 77.5°. 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 226147 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

If something goes wrong

Emergency reference — read this to 000

Location
Stable Swamp Creek
Lot on plan
4750312
Coordinates
-27.54694, 152.99722 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
watercourse

What this approach was read from