Yaun Creek from Trade Winds Drive
Access verdict · Lawful, with caveats · weakest evidence in the chain: statutory inference
A lawful approach from Trade Winds Drive, 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 -27.89252, 153.31557
That is Trade Winds Drive, where the walk below begins — 7.9 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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-27.89252, 153.31557
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 | 890432 | nothing mapped | 68.8 m | 228.0° SW | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 2 | Road reserve | 892636 | nothing mapped | 194.0 m | 187.2° S | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 3 | Road reserve | 892674 | nothing mapped | 405.3 m | 173.6° S | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 4 | Road reserve | 279164 | nothing mapped | 409.9 m | 168.4° SSE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 5 | Road reserve | 278860 | nothing mapped | 113.0 m | 164.2° SSE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 6 | Road reserve | 278898 | nothing mapped | 64.6 m | 147.6° SSE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 7 | Watercourse bed | 278024 | nothing mapped | 860.4 m | 19.1° NNE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 8 | Watercourse bed | 887050 | nothing mapped | 798.8 m | 342.0° NNW | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 9 | Watercourse bed | 898868 | nothing mapped | 429.7 m | 104.4° ESE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 10 | Watercourse bed | 1600386 | nothing mapped | 1011.3 m | 36.2° NE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 11 | Watercourse bed | 903390 | nothing mapped | 423.0 m | 66.3° ENE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 12 | Road reserve | 634028 | nothing mapped | 53.9 m | 79.5° E | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 13 | Road reserve | 633762 | nothing mapped | 106.3 m | 58.6° ENE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 14 | Watercourse bed | 631634 | nothing mapped | 441.8 m | 25.7° NNE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 15 | Watercourse bed | 633990 | nothing mapped | 354.2 m | 274.8° W | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 16 | Watercourse bed | 633952 | nothing mapped | 82.0 m | 274.2° W | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 17 | Watercourse bed | 631596 | nothing mapped | 728.7 m | 268.8° W | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 18 | Watercourse bed | 1893538 | nothing mapped | 66.4 m | 269.3° W | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 19 | Watercourse bed | 1902886 | nothing mapped | 689.3 m | 271.5° W | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 20 | Watercourse bed | 4096627 | nothing mapped | 36.0 m | 263.1° W | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 21 | Watercourse bed | 1903038 | nothing mapped | 21.9 m | 260.0° W | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 22 | Watercourse bed | 1903038 | nothing mapped | 21.9 m | 260.0° W | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 23 | Watercourse bed | 1286525 | nothing mapped | 17.4 m | 252.7° WSW | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 24 | Watercourse bed | 1286525 | nothing mapped | 17.4 m | 252.7° WSW | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 25 | Watercourse bed | 1293593 | nothing mapped | 39.0 m | 253.5° WSW | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 26 | Watercourse bed | 1286487 | nothing mapped | 399.5 m | 262.9° W | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| Total | no way mapped | 7854.5 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 278898 and 887050 is 743.67 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 278024 and 898868 is 591.81 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 887050 and 1600386 is 322.57 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 898868 and 903390 is 994.37 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1600386 and 634028 is 415.79 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 633762 and 633990 is 355.96 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 631634 and 633952 is 289.81 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 633990 and 631596 is 77.94 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 633952 and 1893538 is 716.26 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 631596 and 1902886 is 0.00 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1893538 and 4096627 is 487.65 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1902886 and 1903038 is 36.02 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 4096627 and 1903038 is 0.00 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1903038 and 1286525 is 0.00 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1903038 and 1286525 is 0.00 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1286525 and 1293593 is 0.00 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1286525 and 1286487 is 29.76 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 3 hours out and back
at least 1½ hours there at least 1½ hours back
0 m up and 0 m down on the way out — so the return leg climbs 0 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
- 0.0 m
- Total descent
- 0.0 m
- Steepest sustained
- 0.0% over 110.2 m
- Contour interval
- not stated by the layer
Every height the contours record along this route
| Distance along | Height |
|---|---|
| 393.2 m | 5.0 m |
| 570.8 m | 5.0 m |
| 827.3 m | 5.0 m |
| 937.5 m | 5.0 m |
| 1389.9 m | 5.0 m |
| 1393.8 m | 5.0 m |
| 2744.4 m | 5.0 m |
| 2750.6 m | 5.0 m |
| 3411.7 m | 5.0 m |
| 3535.5 m | 5.0 m |
| 3956.9 m | 5.0 m |
| 3985.3 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 an unstated interval cannot evidence a step smaller than the gap between them.
The line on the ground
Map
Route map: 26 legs from Trade Winds Drive, 7854.5 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 2277109, 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: 890432 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
68.8 m at 228.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 890432 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 2: 892636 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
194.0 m at 187.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 892636 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 3: 892674 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
405.3 m at 173.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 892674 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 4: 279164 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
409.9 m at 168.4°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 279164 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 5: 278860 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
113.0 m at 164.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 278860 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 6: 278898 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
64.6 m at 147.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 278898 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 7: 278024 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
860.4 m at 19.1°. 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 278024 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 8: 887050 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
798.8 m at 342.0°. 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 887050 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 9: 898868 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
429.7 m at 104.4°. 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 898868 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 10: 1600386 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
1011.3 m at 36.2°. 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 1600386 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 11: 903390 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
423.0 m at 66.3°. 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 903390 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 12: 634028 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
53.9 m at 79.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 634028 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 13: 633762 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
106.3 m at 58.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 633762 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 14: 631634 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
441.8 m at 25.7°. 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 631634 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 15: 633990 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
354.2 m at 274.8°. 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 633990 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 16: 633952 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
82.0 m at 274.2°. 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 633952 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 17: 631596 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
728.7 m at 268.8°. 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 631596 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 18: 1893538 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
66.4 m at 269.3°. 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 1893538 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 19: 1902886 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
689.3 m at 271.5°. 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 1902886 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 20: 4096627 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
36.0 m at 263.1°. 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 4096627 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 21: 1903038 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
21.9 m at 260.0°. 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 1903038 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 22: 1903038 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
21.9 m at 260.0°. 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 1903038 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 23: 1286525 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
17.4 m at 252.7°. 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 1286525 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 24: 1286525 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
17.4 m at 252.7°. 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 1286525 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 25: 1293593 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
39.0 m at 253.5°. 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 1293593 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 26: 1286487 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
399.5 m at 262.9°. 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 1286487 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
- Yaun Creek
- Lot on plan
- 2277109
- Coordinates
- -27.87750, 153.30972 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
- Feature
- watercourse