Public Trails Computed from official land records

Gold Coast · Boobegan Creek

Boobegan Creek from Moana Park Avenue

entry is a road chain confidence Statutory inference — evidence class boobegan-creek--from-moana-park-avenue

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

A lawful approach from Moana Park 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 -28.02591, 153.41213

That is Moana Park Avenue, where the walk below begins — 3.4 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.

-28.02591, 153.41213

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 Watercourse bed 1517121 nothing mapped 7.6 m 10.5° N Statutory inference — evidence class
2 Road reserve 1516741 nothing mapped 7.6 m 10.5° N Official spatial — evidence class
3 Watercourse bed 1686259 nothing mapped 363.3 m 355.2° N Statutory inference — evidence class
4 Watercourse bed 1677177 nothing mapped 659.9 m 10.6° N Statutory inference — evidence class
5 Watercourse bed 1660039 nothing mapped 51.1 m 339.9° NNW Statutory inference — evidence class
6 Watercourse bed 1681243 nothing mapped 167.3 m 252.3° WSW Statutory inference — evidence class
7 Road reserve 1680521 nothing mapped 30.5 m 255.8° WSW Official spatial — evidence class
8 Watercourse bed 1680901 nothing mapped 567.6 m 227.7° SW Statutory inference — evidence class
9 Watercourse bed 1961227 nothing mapped 335.1 m 226.2° SW Statutory inference — evidence class
10 Watercourse bed 1985053 nothing mapped 745.3 m 183.1° S Statutory inference — evidence class
11 Watercourse bed 1985015 nothing mapped 288.3 m 292.7° WNW Statutory inference — evidence class
12 Watercourse bed 1963469 nothing mapped 189.8 m 307.4° NW Statutory inference — evidence class
Total no way mapped 3413.4 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 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.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1516741 and 1677177 is 358.85 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1686259 and 1660039 is 651.26 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1677177 and 1681243 is 13.15 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1660039 and 1680521 is 155.66 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1680521 and 1961227 is 536.17 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1680901 and 1985053 is 331.85 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1961227 and 1985015 is 604.75 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1985053 and 1963469 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 1½ hours out and back

at least three quarters of an hour there at least three quarters 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: 12 legs from Moana Park Avenue, 3413.4 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 1963469, 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: 1517121 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    7.6 m at 10.5°. 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 1517121 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 2: 1516741 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    7.6 m at 10.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1516741 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 3: 1686259 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    363.3 m at 355.2°. 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 1686259 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 4: 1677177 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    659.9 m at 10.6°. 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 1677177 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 5: 1660039 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    51.1 m at 339.9°. 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 1660039 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 6: 1681243 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    167.3 m at 252.3°. 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 1681243 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 7: 1680521 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    30.5 m at 255.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1680521 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 8: 1680901 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    567.6 m at 227.7°. 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 1680901 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 9: 1961227 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    335.1 m at 226.2°. 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 1961227 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 10: 1985053 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    745.3 m at 183.1°. 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 1985053 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 11: 1985015 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    288.3 m at 292.7°. 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 1985015 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 12: 1963469 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    189.8 m at 307.4°. 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 1963469 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
Boobegan Creek
Lot on plan
1963469
Coordinates
-28.02695, 153.39960 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
watercourse