Gold Coast · Little Tallebudgera Creek
Little Tallebudgera Creek from The Esplanade
Access verdict · Lawful, with caveats · weakest evidence in the chain: statutory inference
A lawful approach from The Esplanade, 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 -28.00601, 153.43101
That is The Esplanade, where the walk below begins — 19.6 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
-28.00601, 153.43101
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 | 2245019 | nothing mapped | 82.8 m | 23.4° NNE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 2 | Road reserve | 2244981 | nothing mapped | 31.6 m | 73.2° ENE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 3 | Watercourse bed | 2686382 | nothing mapped | 935.6 m | 73.1° ENE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 4 | Watercourse bed | 531311 | nothing mapped | 1459.7 m | 358.3° N | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 5 | Watercourse bed | 2686914 | nothing mapped | 5825.1 m | 0.4° N | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 6 | Watercourse bed | 3284046 | nothing mapped | 1111.7 m | 279.1° W | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 7 | Watercourse bed | 2490971 | nothing mapped | 572.4 m | 261.7° W | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 8 | Watercourse bed | 2490781 | nothing mapped | 538.2 m | 219.8° SW | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 9 | Watercourse bed | 2490857 | nothing mapped | 1296.2 m | 181.4° S | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 10 | Watercourse bed | 2490895 | nothing mapped | 1395.0 m | 176.3° S | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 11 | Watercourse bed | 3285832 | nothing mapped | 1165.5 m | 174.9° S | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 12 | Watercourse bed | 2896947 | nothing mapped | 167.1 m | 201.4° SSW | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 13 | Watercourse bed | 2896909 | nothing mapped | 60.4 m | 212.8° SSW | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 14 | Watercourse bed | 2896985 | nothing mapped | 21.4 m | 212.7° SSW | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 15 | Watercourse bed | 2896719 | nothing mapped | 271.8 m | 203.5° SSW | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 16 | Watercourse bed | 2896757 | nothing mapped | 137.2 m | 194.4° SSW | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 17 | Watercourse bed | 2896795 | nothing mapped | 641.2 m | 192.2° SSW | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 18 | Watercourse bed | 2921419 | nothing mapped | 731.3 m | 190.8° S | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 19 | Watercourse bed | 2117491 | nothing mapped | 267.4 m | 181.3° S | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 20 | Watercourse bed | 2136871 | nothing mapped | 314.3 m | 195.8° SSW | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 21 | Road reserve | 2138657 | nothing mapped | 10.4 m | 175.1° S | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 22 | Watercourse bed | 2156555 | nothing mapped | 210.0 m | 156.5° SSE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 23 | Watercourse bed | 2094881 | nothing mapped | 427.8 m | 142.7° SE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 24 | Watercourse bed | 2286667 | nothing mapped | 428.5 m | 157.0° SSE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 25 | Road reserve | 2273025 | nothing mapped | 76.9 m | 128.9° SE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 26 | Watercourse bed | 2272949 | nothing mapped | 184.8 m | 135.7° SE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 27 | Watercourse bed | 2266869 | nothing mapped | 113.3 m | 143.5° SE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 28 | Watercourse bed | 1749073 | nothing mapped | 714.8 m | 141.4° SE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 29 | Watercourse bed | 1759789 | nothing mapped | 338.2 m | 214.9° SW | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 30 | Watercourse bed | 1761689 | nothing mapped | 91.9 m | 159.7° SSE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| Total | no way mapped | 19622.5 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 2244981 and 531311 is 256.52 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2686382 and 2686914 is 1453.20 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 531311 and 3284046 is 5734.09 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2686914 and 2490971 is 32.38 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 3284046 and 2490781 is 552.26 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2490971 and 2490857 is 316.58 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2490781 and 2490895 is 1284.70 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2490857 and 3285832 is 1376.00 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2490895 and 2896947 is 1127.44 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 3285832 and 2896909 is 7.36 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2896947 and 2896985 is 44.34 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2896909 and 2896719 is 15.24 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2896985 and 2896757 is 127.21 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2896719 and 2896795 is 0.00 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2896757 and 2921419 is 313.64 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2896795 and 2117491 is 442.85 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2921419 and 2136871 is 212.56 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2117491 and 2138657 is 301.78 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2138657 and 2094881 is 141.07 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2156555 and 2286667 is 164.40 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2094881 and 2273025 is 339.39 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2273025 and 2266869 is 91.66 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2272949 and 1749073 is 0.00 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2266869 and 1759789 is 587.86 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1749073 and 1761689 is 276.42 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 8 hours out and back
at least 4 hours there at least 4 hours 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.
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: 30 legs from The Esplanade, 19622.5 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 1761689, 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: 2245019 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
82.8 m at 23.4°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 2245019 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 2: 2244981 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
31.6 m at 73.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 2244981 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 3: 2686382 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
935.6 m at 73.1°. 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 2686382 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 4: 531311 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
1459.7 m at 358.3°. 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 531311 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 5: 2686914 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
5825.1 m at 0.4°. 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 2686914 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 6: 3284046 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
1111.7 m at 279.1°. 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 3284046 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 7: 2490971 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
572.4 m at 261.7°. 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 2490971 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 8: 2490781 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
538.2 m at 219.8°. 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 2490781 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 9: 2490857 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
1296.2 m at 181.4°. 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 2490857 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 10: 2490895 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
1395.0 m at 176.3°. 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 2490895 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 11: 3285832 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
1165.5 m at 174.9°. 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 3285832 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 12: 2896947 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
167.1 m at 201.4°. 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 2896947 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 13: 2896909 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
60.4 m at 212.8°. 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 2896909 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 14: 2896985 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
21.4 m at 212.7°. 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 2896985 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 15: 2896719 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
271.8 m at 203.5°. 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 2896719 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 16: 2896757 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
137.2 m at 194.4°. 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 2896757 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 17: 2896795 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
641.2 m at 192.2°. 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 2896795 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 18: 2921419 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
731.3 m at 190.8°. 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 2921419 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 19: 2117491 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
267.4 m at 181.3°. 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 2117491 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 20: 2136871 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
314.3 m at 195.8°. 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 2136871 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 21: 2138657 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
10.4 m at 175.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 2138657 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 22: 2156555 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
210.0 m at 156.5°. 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 2156555 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 23: 2094881 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
427.8 m at 142.7°. 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 2094881 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 24: 2286667 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
428.5 m at 157.0°. 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 2286667 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 25: 2273025 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
76.9 m at 128.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 2273025 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 26: 2272949 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
184.8 m at 135.7°. 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 2272949 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 27: 2266869 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
113.3 m at 143.5°. 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 2266869 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 28: 1749073 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
714.8 m at 141.4°. 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 1749073 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 29: 1759789 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
338.2 m at 214.9°. 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 1759789 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 30: 1761689 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
91.9 m at 159.7°. 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 1761689 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
- Little Tallebudgera Creek
- Lot on plan
- 1761689
- Coordinates
- -28.01667, 153.42639 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
- Feature
- watercourse