Crane Creek from Yamanie Break
Access verdict · Lawful, with caveats · weakest evidence in the chain: statutory inference
A lawful approach from Yamanie Break, 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 -27.97952, 153.32233
That is Yamanie Break, where the walk below begins — 4.4 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.
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- Your own map app hands the coordinate to an installed app, offline ones included
-27.97952, 153.32233
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 | Protected estate | 224NPW804 | nothing mapped | 16.5 m | 124.6° SE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 2 | Road reserve | 1192912 | Yarrayne Break open | 9.2 m | 129.8° SE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 3 | Watercourse bed | 1193254 | Yarrayne Break open | 13.0 m | 143.8° SE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 4 | Road reserve | 1193216 | Yarrayne Break open | 135.5 m | 123.3° ESE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 5 | Protected estate | 224NPW804 | nothing mapped | 229.5 m | 159.1° SSE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 6 | Watercourse bed | 1169580 | nothing mapped | 645.8 m | 148.2° SSE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 7 | Watercourse bed | 1609278 | nothing mapped | 62.8 m | 126.2° SE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 8 | Watercourse bed | 1283694 | nothing mapped | 411.5 m | 152.1° SSE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 9 | Watercourse bed | 1340808 | nothing mapped | 246.7 m | 170.4° S | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 10 | Road reserve | 1340846 | nothing mapped | 37.8 m | 169.4° S | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 11 | Watercourse bed | 1334766 | nothing mapped | 534.5 m | 97.9° E | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 12 | Watercourse bed | 1609734 | nothing mapped | 277.9 m | 30.5° NNE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 13 | Watercourse bed | 1609810 | nothing mapped | 402.3 m | 181.1° S | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 14 | Watercourse bed | 1364824 | nothing mapped | 898.9 m | 262.7° W | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 15 | Road reserve | 1368624 | nothing mapped | 52.4 m | 273.3° W | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 16 | Watercourse bed | 1368586 | nothing mapped | 288.4 m | 272.2° W | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 17 | Watercourse bed | 1372576 | nothing mapped | 138.3 m | 274.3° W | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| Total | 157.7 m mapped | 4401.0 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 1192912 and 1193216 is 7.10 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 224NPW804 and 1609278 is 536.37 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1169580 and 1283694 is 45.11 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1609278 and 1340808 is 409.17 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1283694 and 1340846 is 244.36 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1340846 and 1609734 is 350.89 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1334766 and 1609810 is 162.46 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1609734 and 1364824 is 165.06 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1609810 and 1368624 is 874.29 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1368624 and 1372576 is 277.51 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 steps, but the record maps ground here
at least 2 hours out and back
at least 1 hour there at least 1 hour back
15 m up and 25 m down on the way out — so the return leg climbs 25 m.
Walking only — nothing is counted for rest, water, photographs, navigation, or the state of the track.
What is mapped along this chain
A managing authority has surveyed a way along 158 m of this 4401 m chain — about 4% of it. That is a statement about what is on the ground, not about your right to be there, which the parcels above already settled, and not a direction: no step below is measured along any of these ways.
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Legs 2–4 Yarrayne Break Official spatial — evidence class
158 m along it · the managing authority publishes it as open to the public (Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service).
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
- 15.0 m
- Total descent
- 25.0 m
- Steepest sustained
- 9.7% over 51.4 m
- Contour interval
- 5.0 m
Every height the contours record along this route
| Distance along | Height |
|---|---|
| 138.9 m | 15.0 m |
| 225.8 m | 15.0 m |
| 249.5 m | 15.0 m |
| 335.3 m | 15.0 m |
| 392.6 m | 10.0 m |
| 409.7 m | 10.0 m |
| 434.2 m | 10.0 m |
| 441.2 m | 10.0 m |
| 524.0 m | 15.0 m |
| 631.9 m | 20.0 m |
| 707.3 m | 20.0 m |
| 774.4 m | 15.0 m |
| 839.5 m | 10.0 m |
| 1040.2 m | 5.0 m |
| 1046.6 m | 5.0 m |
| 1111.1 m | 5.0 m |
| 1126.3 m | 5.0 m |
| 1216.3 m | 5.0 m |
| 1227.5 m | 5.0 m |
| 1241.0 m | 5.0 m |
| 1291.7 m | 5.0 m |
| 1388.1 m | 5.0 m |
| 1596.6 m | 5.0 m |
| 1598.2 m | 5.0 m |
| 1599.5 m | 5.0 m |
| 1624.6 m | 10.0 m |
| 1633.0 m | 10.0 m |
| 1699.0 m | 10.0 m |
| 1720.4 m | 10.0 m |
| 1730.5 m | 10.0 m |
| 1733.7 m | 10.0 m |
| 1737.7 m | 10.0 m |
| 1741.1 m | 10.0 m |
| 1759.6 m | 5.0 m |
| 1785.2 m | 5.0 m |
| 1796.9 m | 5.0 m |
| 1800.4 m | 5.0 m |
| 1805.1 m | 5.0 m |
| 1813.6 m | 5.0 m |
| 2247.3 m | 5.0 m |
| 2374.5 m | 5.0 m |
| 2381.1 m | 5.0 m |
| 2454.8 m | 5.0 m |
| 2455.5 m | 5.0 m |
| 2458.3 m | 5.0 m |
| 2585.4 m | 5.0 m |
| 2650.9 m | 5.0 m |
| 2953.6 m | 5.0 m |
| 3124.8 m | 5.0 m |
| 3778.9 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: 17 legs from Yamanie Break, 4401.0 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 1372576, 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: 224NPW804 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
16.5 m at 124.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 224NPW804 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 2: 1192912 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
9.2 m at 129.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1192912 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 3: 1193254 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
13.0 m at 143.8°. 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 1193254 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 4: 1193216 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
135.5 m at 123.3°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1193216 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 5: 224NPW804 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
229.5 m at 159.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 224NPW804 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 6: 1169580 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
645.8 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 1169580 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 7: 1609278 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
62.8 m at 126.2°. 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 1609278 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 8: 1283694 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
411.5 m at 152.1°. 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 1283694 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 9: 1340808 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
246.7 m at 170.4°. 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 1340808 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 10: 1340846 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
37.8 m at 169.4°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1340846 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 11: 1334766 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
534.5 m at 97.9°. 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 1334766 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 12: 1609734 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
277.9 m at 30.5°. 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 1609734 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 13: 1609810 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
402.3 m at 181.1°. 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 1609810 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 14: 1364824 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
898.9 m at 262.7°. 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 1364824 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 15: 1368624 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
52.4 m at 273.3°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1368624 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 16: 1368586 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
288.4 m at 272.2°. 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 1368586 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 17: 1372576 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
138.3 m at 274.3°. 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 1372576 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
- Crane Creek
- Lot on plan
- 1372576
- Coordinates
- -27.99639, 153.32383 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
- Feature
- watercourse