Saltwater Creek from Blackbird Street
Access verdict · Lawful, with caveats · weakest evidence in the chain: statutory inference
A lawful approach from Blackbird 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.
On-ground signage and temporary closures override this page. Always.
Getting to the start The trailhead coordinate, not the feature
The start is at -27.70519, 153.20213
That is Blackbird Street, where the walk below begins — 10.2 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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-27.70519, 153.20213
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 | Road reserve | 97756 | nothing mapped | 201.4 m | 320.5° NW | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 2 | Road reserve | 107750 | nothing mapped | 145.8 m | 320.9° NW | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 3 | Road reserve | 91372 | nothing mapped | 328.7 m | 320.5° NW | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 4 | Road reserve | 221712 | nothing mapped | 218.6 m | 338.7° NNW | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 5 | Road reserve | 211186 | nothing mapped | 340.5 m | 10.4° N | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 6 | Watercourse bed | 221788 | nothing mapped | 327.1 m | 34.6° NE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 7 | Road reserve | 225056 | nothing mapped | 16.5 m | 39.6° NE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 8 | Watercourse bed | 224980 | nothing mapped | 529.0 m | 33.5° NNE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 9 | Watercourse bed | 2805695 | nothing mapped | 115.3 m | 30.1° NNE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 10 | Watercourse bed | 249794 | nothing mapped | 337.5 m | 30.1° NNE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 11 | Road reserve | 249832 | nothing mapped | 1091.0 m | 98.6° E | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 12 | Road reserve | 261802 | nothing mapped | 20.4 m | 99.3° E | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 13 | Road reserve | 262600 | nothing mapped | 807.4 m | 98.9° E | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 14 | Road reserve | 262334 | nothing mapped | 25.6 m | 60.7° ENE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 15 | Road reserve | 267350 | nothing mapped | 398.3 m | 73.8° ENE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 16 | Road reserve | 263474 | nothing mapped | 22.6 m | 89.2° E | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 17 | Road reserve | 263892 | nothing mapped | 855.5 m | 120.5° ESE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 18 | Road reserve | 263626 | nothing mapped | 412.8 m | 161.6° SSE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 19 | Watercourse bed | 263322 | nothing mapped | 572.9 m | 218.5° SW | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 20 | Watercourse bed | 193174 | nothing mapped | 761.5 m | 187.5° S | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 21 | Watercourse bed | 34676 | nothing mapped | 306.9 m | 180.3° S | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 22 | Watercourse bed | 32054 | nothing mapped | 596.2 m | 219.2° SW | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 23 | Road reserve | 28520 | nothing mapped | 17.1 m | 205.0° SSW | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 24 | Watercourse bed | 22250 | nothing mapped | 384.5 m | 227.1° SW | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 25 | Road reserve | 10850 | nothing mapped | 6.2 m | 292.0° WNW | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 26 | Watercourse bed | 22212 | nothing mapped | 1318.9 m | 269.3° W | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| Total | no way mapped | 10158.2 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 211186 and 225056 is 323.60 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 225056 and 2805695 is 473.91 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 224980 and 249794 is 0.00 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2805695 and 249832 is 39.90 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 263626 and 193174 is 509.18 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 263322 and 34676 is 744.13 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 193174 and 32054 is 306.76 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 34676 and 28520 is 577.32 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 28520 and 10850 is 181.54 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 4 hours out and back
at least 2 hours there at least 2 hours back
5 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.
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
- 5.0 m
- Total descent
- 25.0 m
- Steepest sustained
- 5.6% over 88.9 m
- Contour interval
- 5.0 m
Every height the contours record along this route
| Distance along | Height |
|---|---|
| 226.8 m | 25.0 m |
| 448.3 m | 20.0 m |
| 599.7 m | 15.0 m |
| 654.8 m | 15.0 m |
| 658.4 m | 15.0 m |
| 659.2 m | 15.0 m |
| 660.5 m | 15.0 m |
| 660.9 m | 15.0 m |
| 710.0 m | 15.0 m |
| 799.7 m | 10.0 m |
| 935.9 m | 5.0 m |
| 1341.7 m | 5.0 m |
| 1460.5 m | 5.0 m |
| 2566.8 m | 5.0 m |
| 2648.5 m | 5.0 m |
| 3380.4 m | 5.0 m |
| 3405.3 m | 5.0 m |
| 3405.9 m | 5.0 m |
| 3409.3 m | 5.0 m |
| 3617.5 m | 5.0 m |
| 4169.3 m | 5.0 m |
| 4364.8 m | 5.0 m |
| 4580.4 m | 5.0 m |
| 5886.0 m | 5.0 m |
| 5888.7 m | 5.0 m |
| 5889.7 m | 5.0 m |
| 6033.5 m | 10.0 m |
| 6087.7 m | 10.0 m |
| 6176.6 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: 26 legs from Blackbird Street, 10158.2 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 22212, 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: 97756 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
201.4 m at 320.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 97756 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 2: 107750 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
145.8 m at 320.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 107750 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 3: 91372 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
328.7 m at 320.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 91372 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 4: 221712 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
218.6 m at 338.7°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 221712 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 5: 211186 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
340.5 m at 10.4°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 211186 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 6: 221788 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
327.1 m at 34.6°. 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 221788 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 7: 225056 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
16.5 m at 39.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 225056 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 8: 224980 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
529.0 m at 33.5°. 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 224980 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 9: 2805695 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
115.3 m at 30.1°. 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 2805695 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 10: 249794 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
337.5 m at 30.1°. 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 249794 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 11: 249832 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
1091.0 m at 98.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 249832 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 12: 261802 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
20.4 m at 99.3°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 261802 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 13: 262600 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
807.4 m at 98.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 262600 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 14: 262334 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
25.6 m at 60.7°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 262334 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 15: 267350 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
398.3 m at 73.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 267350 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 16: 263474 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
22.6 m at 89.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 263474 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 17: 263892 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
855.5 m at 120.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 263892 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 18: 263626 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
412.8 m at 161.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 263626 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 19: 263322 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
572.9 m at 218.5°. 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 263322 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 20: 193174 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
761.5 m at 187.5°. 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 193174 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 21: 34676 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
306.9 m at 180.3°. 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 34676 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 22: 32054 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
596.2 m at 219.2°. 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 32054 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 23: 28520 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
17.1 m at 205.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 28520 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 24: 22250 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
384.5 m at 227.1°. 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 22250 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 25: 10850 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
6.2 m at 292.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 10850 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 26: 22212 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
1318.9 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 22212 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
- Saltwater Creek
- Lot on plan
- 22212
- Coordinates
- -27.71495, 153.21237 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
- Feature
- watercourse
What this approach was read from
- Cadastral data Queensland (DCDB), incl. easement layer — © State of Queensland (Department of Resources) CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-22
- Queensland LiDAR-derived contours (5 m) — © State of Queensland CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-22
- Queensland local government area boundaries — © State of Queensland CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-27
- Queensland place names gazetteer — © State of Queensland CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-16