Moreton Bay · Black Duck Creek
Black Duck Creek from Russel Street
Access verdict · Lawful, with caveats · weakest evidence in the chain: statutory inference
A lawful approach from Russel 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 -27.26084, 152.99870
That is Russel Street, where the walk below begins — 11.5 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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-27.26084, 152.99870
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 | 2813498 | nothing mapped | 66.7 m | 301.9° WNW | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 2 | Road reserve | 2817564 | nothing mapped | 560.3 m | 299.6° WNW | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 3 | Road reserve | 2816728 | nothing mapped | 187.3 m | 258.5° WSW | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 4 | Road reserve | 2816766 | nothing mapped | 29.7 m | 254.8° WSW | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 5 | Road reserve | 2815512 | nothing mapped | 567.6 m | 245.5° WSW | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 6 | Road reserve | 2865786 | nothing mapped | 386.6 m | 206.3° SSW | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 7 | Road reserve | 3826184 | nothing mapped | 77.5 m | 202.5° SSW | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 8 | Watercourse bed | 3783092 | nothing mapped | 1053.3 m | 110.5° ESE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 9 | Watercourse bed | 3783054 | nothing mapped | 504.8 m | 127.6° SE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 10 | Watercourse bed | 395887 | nothing mapped | 187.9 m | 99.5° E | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 11 | Watercourse bed | 395697 | nothing mapped | 216.2 m | 109.6° ESE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 12 | Watercourse bed | 1627193 | nothing mapped | 1546.5 m | 142.1° SE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 13 | Watercourse bed | 3187360 | nothing mapped | 864.6 m | 137.1° SE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 14 | Road reserve | 3178544 | nothing mapped | 5.7 m | 152.9° SSE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 15 | Watercourse bed | 3185916 | nothing mapped | 237.0 m | 130.5° SE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 16 | Road reserve | 3164446 | nothing mapped | 1031.9 m | 2.0° N | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 17 | Road reserve | 1621721 | nothing mapped | 135.9 m | 337.6° NNW | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 18 | Road reserve | 1621683 | nothing mapped | 100.2 m | 359.9° N | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 19 | Road reserve | 2601213 | nothing mapped | 458.6 m | 347.9° NNW | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 20 | Road reserve | 400026 | nothing mapped | 68.3 m | 358.8° N | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 21 | Road reserve | 1786796 | nothing mapped | 921.8 m | 1.5° N | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 22 | Road reserve | 632489 | nothing mapped | 602.5 m | 1.9° N | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 23 | Road reserve | 4556162 | nothing mapped | 40.8 m | 0.1° N | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 24 | Road reserve | 4538682 | nothing mapped | 967.0 m | 1.3° N | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 25 | Road reserve | JSP279043 | nothing mapped | 70.9 m | 342.3° NNW | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 26 | Road reserve | 4544116 | nothing mapped | 66.6 m | 322.8° NW | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 27 | Road reserve | 1402916 | nothing mapped | 84.4 m | 267.6° W | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 28 | Watercourse bed | 1402954 | nothing mapped | 54.6 m | 264.0° W | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 29 | Watercourse bed | 3743534 | nothing mapped | 211.5 m | 266.6° W | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 30 | Watercourse bed | 347285 | nothing mapped | 26.7 m | 278.4° W | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 31 | Road reserve | 347209 | nothing mapped | 165.6 m | 268.3° W | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 32 | Road reserve | 3081185 | nothing mapped | 39.1 m | 270.9° W | Official spatial — evidence class |
| Total | no way mapped | 11538.1 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 3826184 and 3783054 is 746.22 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 3783092 and 395887 is 459.37 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 3783054 and 395697 is 0.00 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 395887 and 1627193 is 0.00 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 395697 and 3187360 is 1541.41 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1627193 and 3178544 is 868.98 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 3178544 and 3164446 is 148.30 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1402916 and 3743534 is 23.67 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1402954 and 347285 is 0.00 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 3743534 and 347209 is 20.22 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
Following it on the ground No published way to follow
at least 5 hours out and back
at least 2½ hours there at least 2½ hours back
40 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
- 40.0 m
- Total descent
- 60.0 m
- Steepest sustained
- 13.7% over 72.9 m
- Contour interval
- 5.0 m
Every height the contours record along this route
| Distance along | Height |
|---|---|
| 253.6 m | 25.0 m |
| 617.1 m | 20.0 m |
| 632.9 m | 20.0 m |
| 1148.3 m | 25.0 m |
| 1703.9 m | 25.0 m |
| 1744.3 m | 20.0 m |
| 1780.3 m | 15.0 m |
| 1817.2 m | 10.0 m |
| 1872.9 m | 5.0 m |
| 1889.3 m | 5.0 m |
| 1891.2 m | 5.0 m |
| 2523.6 m | 5.0 m |
| 2524.3 m | 5.0 m |
| 2614.5 m | 5.0 m |
| 2631.0 m | 5.0 m |
| 2666.7 m | 5.0 m |
| 2686.9 m | 5.0 m |
| 2743.1 m | 5.0 m |
| 2798.2 m | 5.0 m |
| 2959.7 m | 5.0 m |
| 3130.5 m | 5.0 m |
| 4691.7 m | 5.0 m |
| 4815.3 m | 5.0 m |
| 6335.8 m | 5.0 m |
| 6401.6 m | 5.0 m |
| 6538.1 m | 5.0 m |
| 6602.5 m | 10.0 m |
| 6780.2 m | 10.0 m |
| 6953.8 m | 5.0 m |
| 7073.8 m | 5.0 m |
| 7205.2 m | 10.0 m |
| 7299.4 m | 15.0 m |
| 7328.5 m | 15.0 m |
| 7419.1 m | 10.0 m |
| 7434.6 m | 10.0 m |
| 7450.2 m | 10.0 m |
| 7598.7 m | 5.0 m |
| 7598.7 m | 5.0 m |
| 7602.1 m | 5.0 m |
| 7603.3 m | 5.0 m |
| 7612.3 m | 5.0 m |
| 7663.9 m | 5.0 m |
| 8141.8 m | 5.0 m |
| 8142.1 m | 5.0 m |
| 8172.2 m | 5.0 m |
| 8178.3 m | 5.0 m |
| 8179.1 m | 5.0 m |
| 8193.6 m | 5.0 m |
| 8216.4 m | 5.0 m |
| 8252.2 m | 5.0 m |
| 8803.9 m | 10.0 m |
| 9115.6 m | 15.0 m |
| 9397.6 m | 20.0 m |
| 9798.4 m | 25.0 m |
| 9805.1 m | 25.0 m |
| 9813.3 m | 25.0 m |
| 9816.9 m | 25.0 m |
| 9831.3 m | 25.0 m |
| 9841.2 m | 25.0 m |
| 9843.1 m | 25.0 m |
| 9850.3 m | 25.0 m |
| 9850.4 m | 25.0 m |
| 10323.0 m | 25.0 m |
| 10557.0 m | 20.0 m |
| 10692.7 m | 15.0 m |
| 10867.3 m | 10.0 m |
| 10995.5 m | 5.0 m |
| 11140.8 m | 5.0 m |
| 11159.6 m | 5.0 m |
| 11384.5 m | 5.0 m |
| 11413.9 m | 5.0 m |
| 11425.4 m | 5.0 m |
| 11459.5 m | 5.0 m |
| 11499.8 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: 32 legs from Russel Street, 11538.1 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
Parcel not resolved, recorded tenure "unresolved". 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: 2813498 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
66.7 m at 301.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 2813498 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 2: 2817564 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
560.3 m at 299.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 2817564 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 3: 2816728 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
187.3 m at 258.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 2816728 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 4: 2816766 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
29.7 m at 254.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 2816766 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 5: 2815512 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
567.6 m at 245.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 2815512 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 6: 2865786 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
386.6 m at 206.3°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 2865786 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 7: 3826184 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
77.5 m at 202.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 3826184 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 8: 3783092 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
1053.3 m at 110.5°. 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 3783092 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 9: 3783054 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
504.8 m at 127.6°. 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 3783054 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 10: 395887 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
187.9 m at 99.5°. 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 395887 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 11: 395697 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
216.2 m at 109.6°. 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 395697 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 12: 1627193 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
1546.5 m at 142.1°. 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 1627193 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 13: 3187360 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
864.6 m at 137.1°. 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 3187360 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 14: 3178544 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
5.7 m at 152.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 3178544 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 15: 3185916 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
237.0 m at 130.5°. 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 3185916 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 16: 3164446 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
1031.9 m at 2.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 3164446 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 17: 1621721 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
135.9 m at 337.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1621721 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 18: 1621683 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
100.2 m at 359.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1621683 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 19: 2601213 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
458.6 m at 347.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 2601213 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 20: 400026 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
68.3 m at 358.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 400026 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 21: 1786796 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
921.8 m at 1.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1786796 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 22: 632489 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
602.5 m at 1.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 632489 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 23: 4556162 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
40.8 m at 0.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 4556162 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 24: 4538682 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
967.0 m at 1.3°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 4538682 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 25: JSP279043 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
70.9 m at 342.3°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference JSP279043 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 26: 4544116 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
66.6 m at 322.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 4544116 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 27: 1402916 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
84.4 m at 267.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1402916 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 28: 1402954 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
54.6 m at 264.0°. 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 1402954 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 29: 3743534 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
211.5 m at 266.6°. 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 3743534 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 30: 347285 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
26.7 m at 278.4°. 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 347285 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 31: 347209 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
165.6 m at 268.3°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 347209 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 32: 3081185 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
39.1 m at 270.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 3081185 Grade official_spatial
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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
- Black Duck Creek
- Lot on plan
- not established from the cadastre
- Coordinates
- -27.24979, 153.01217 (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