Slacks Creek from Abang Avenue
Access verdict · Lawful, with caveats · weakest evidence in the chain: statutory inference
A lawful approach from Abang 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.
On-ground signage and temporary closures override this page. Always.
Getting to the start The trailhead coordinate, not the feature
The start is at -27.66243, 153.16582
That is Abang Avenue, where the walk below begins — 10.9 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.
- 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
-27.66243, 153.16582
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 | 3017355 | nothing mapped | 325.0 m | 114.3° ESE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 2 | Road reserve | 2998697 | nothing mapped | 123.7 m | 49.9° NE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 3 | Road reserve | 2998735 | nothing mapped | 248.4 m | 130.6° SE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 4 | Road reserve | 3031719 | nothing mapped | 67.7 m | 132.0° SE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 5 | Road reserve | 3031681 | nothing mapped | 42.2 m | 17.3° NNE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 6 | Road reserve | 3084425 | nothing mapped | 857.5 m | 137.9° SE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 7 | Road reserve | 3135953 | nothing mapped | 41.8 m | 138.4° SE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 8 | Road reserve | 3136105 | nothing mapped | 423.4 m | 137.2° SE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 9 | Road reserve | 3135877 | nothing mapped | 52.4 m | 138.5° SE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 10 | Road reserve | 3150773 | nothing mapped | 330.3 m | 140.9° SE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 11 | Road reserve | 3150811 | nothing mapped | 112.4 m | 142.6° SE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 12 | Road reserve | 3144655 | nothing mapped | 576.9 m | 154.7° SSE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 13 | Road reserve | 3175207 | nothing mapped | 145.0 m | 156.2° SSE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 14 | Road reserve | 2801933 | nothing mapped | 346.5 m | 151.1° SSE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 15 | Road reserve | 2840427 | nothing mapped | 423.3 m | 156.4° SSE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 16 | Road reserve | 2844607 | nothing mapped | 820.2 m | 157.3° SSE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 17 | Watercourse bed | 3219667 | nothing mapped | 571.5 m | 194.4° SSW | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 18 | Watercourse bed | 2994865 | nothing mapped | 961.9 m | 277.8° W | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 19 | Watercourse bed | 3230193 | nothing mapped | 690.4 m | 284.7° WNW | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 20 | Watercourse bed | 3182465 | nothing mapped | 648.3 m | 283.4° WNW | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 21 | Watercourse bed | 3182503 | nothing mapped | 217.5 m | 340.4° NNW | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 22 | Watercourse bed | 3181743 | nothing mapped | 968.2 m | 356.4° N | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 23 | Watercourse bed | 2753195 | nothing mapped | 577.4 m | 337.5° NNW | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 24 | Watercourse bed | 3118055 | nothing mapped | 55.2 m | 2.5° N | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 25 | Watercourse bed | 2753233 | nothing mapped | 366.4 m | 334.5° NNW | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 26 | Watercourse bed | 2753119 | nothing mapped | 795.1 m | 327.2° NNW | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 27 | Watercourse bed | 2327714 | nothing mapped | 64.2 m | 348.4° NNW | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| Total | no way mapped | 10852.8 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 2844607 and 2994865 is 568.28 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 3219667 and 3230193 is 530.90 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2994865 and 3182465 is 689.04 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 3230193 and 3182503 is 640.98 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 3182465 and 3181743 is 170.58 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 3182503 and 2753195 is 898.28 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 3181743 and 3118055 is 400.33 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2753195 and 2753233 is 0.00 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 3118055 and 2753119 is 334.95 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2753233 and 2327714 is 743.70 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 4½ hours out and back
at least 2¼ hours there at least 2¼ hours back
20 m up and 60 m down on the way out — so the return leg climbs 60 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
- 20.0 m
- Total descent
- 60.0 m
- Steepest sustained
- 11.8% over 84.5 m
- Contour interval
- 5.0 m
Every height the contours record along this route
| Distance along | Height |
|---|---|
| 91.0 m | 45.0 m |
| 144.6 m | 40.0 m |
| 175.5 m | 35.0 m |
| 255.1 m | 30.0 m |
| 257.1 m | 30.0 m |
| 273.7 m | 30.0 m |
| 379.6 m | 25.0 m |
| 413.9 m | 25.0 m |
| 824.0 m | 25.0 m |
| 903.5 m | 20.0 m |
| 1041.2 m | 15.0 m |
| 1347.7 m | 15.0 m |
| 1617.0 m | 15.0 m |
| 1787.0 m | 15.0 m |
| 2137.1 m | 15.0 m |
| 2289.7 m | 10.0 m |
| 2340.9 m | 10.0 m |
| 2383.6 m | 10.0 m |
| 2384.6 m | 10.0 m |
| 2386.2 m | 10.0 m |
| 2423.2 m | 10.0 m |
| 2424.2 m | 10.0 m |
| 2425.3 m | 10.0 m |
| 2453.5 m | 10.0 m |
| 2515.5 m | 10.0 m |
| 2959.3 m | 10.0 m |
| 3774.1 m | 10.0 m |
| 3776.2 m | 15.0 m |
| 3791.3 m | 15.0 m |
| 3794.1 m | 10.0 m |
| 3979.8 m | 10.0 m |
| 3980.5 m | 10.0 m |
| 3982.1 m | 10.0 m |
| 4068.7 m | 15.0 m |
| 4078.8 m | 15.0 m |
| 4217.3 m | 10.0 m |
| 4914.5 m | 5.0 m |
| 5328.7 m | 5.0 m |
| 5346.0 m | 5.0 m |
| 5938.1 m | 5.0 m |
| 6069.4 m | 5.0 m |
| 6134.9 m | 5.0 m |
| 6422.1 m | 5.0 m |
| 7337.9 m | 5.0 m |
| 7388.3 m | 5.0 m |
| 7411.7 m | 5.0 m |
| 7521.4 m | 10.0 m |
| 7683.4 m | 10.0 m |
| 7706.4 m | 5.0 m |
| 7710.9 m | 5.0 m |
| 7712.1 m | 5.0 m |
| 10264.9 m | 5.0 m |
| 10517.0 m | 10.0 m |
| 10541.1 m | 10.0 m |
| 10597.8 m | 5.0 m |
| 10692.5 m | 5.0 m |
| 10740.9 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: 27 legs from Abang Avenue, 10852.8 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 2327714, 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: 3017355 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
325.0 m at 114.3°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 3017355 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 2: 2998697 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
123.7 m at 49.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 2998697 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 3: 2998735 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
248.4 m at 130.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 2998735 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 4: 3031719 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
67.7 m at 132.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 3031719 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 5: 3031681 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
42.2 m at 17.3°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 3031681 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 6: 3084425 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
857.5 m at 137.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 3084425 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 7: 3135953 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
41.8 m at 138.4°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 3135953 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 8: 3136105 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
423.4 m at 137.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 3136105 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 9: 3135877 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
52.4 m at 138.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 3135877 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 10: 3150773 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
330.3 m at 140.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 3150773 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 11: 3150811 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
112.4 m at 142.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 3150811 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 12: 3144655 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
576.9 m at 154.7°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 3144655 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 13: 3175207 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
145.0 m at 156.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 3175207 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 14: 2801933 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
346.5 m at 151.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 2801933 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 15: 2840427 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
423.3 m at 156.4°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 2840427 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 16: 2844607 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
820.2 m at 157.3°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 2844607 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 17: 3219667 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
571.5 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 3219667 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 18: 2994865 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
961.9 m at 277.8°. 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 2994865 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 19: 3230193 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
690.4 m at 284.7°. 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 3230193 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 20: 3182465 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
648.3 m at 283.4°. 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 3182465 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 21: 3182503 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
217.5 m at 340.4°. 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 3182503 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 22: 3181743 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
968.2 m at 356.4°. 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 3181743 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 23: 2753195 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
577.4 m at 337.5°. 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 2753195 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 24: 3118055 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
55.2 m at 2.5°. 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 3118055 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 25: 2753233 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
366.4 m at 334.5°. 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 2753233 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 26: 2753119 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
795.1 m at 327.2°. 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 2753119 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 27: 2327714 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
64.2 m at 348.4°. 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 2327714 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
- Slacks Creek
- Lot on plan
- 2327714
- Coordinates
- -27.67111, 153.16028 (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