Public Trails Computed from official land records

Moreton Bay Official spatial — evidence class · Moreton Bay · QLD

Bull Falls

Lawful route land the public may cross — no track, you navigate it

Community name -27.08266, 152.69637 D'Aguilar National Park · National Park waterfall

Access verdict · Lawful, nothing to flag · weakest evidence in the chain: official spatial record

Public land — inside D'Aguilar National Park. No published track reaches it — the lawful ground to it is a chain of parcels.

Being at this point is lawful on the records below. Getting there is a separate question, answered route by route — and each route carries its own verdict and its own caveats.

What this verdict means · what the evidence grades mean

On-ground signage and temporary closures override this page. Always.

What this place is A definition, then the record

A waterfall — a step in a watercourse steep enough that the water falls clear of the bed rather than running down it. The step is usually a band of harder rock the creek has been unable to cut through as fast as the softer rock below, so the drop moves slowly upstream over time and leaves a gorge behind it.

No watercourse the register names runs within range of Bull Falls. The layer maps far more creeks than it has ever named, so that is a gap in the record rather than dry ground.

The point falls inside D'Aguilar National Park, designated National Park. Official spatial — evidence class

The point falls outside every World Heritage property the state maps.

The rock at the surface is basalt, mapped as Tv-SEQ (Tv) , tertiary in age. The survey describes it as: Mainly basalt flows Official spatial — evidence class

The register maps 2 ecosystems over this ground, each with the share of it the register states.

  • 60% — Eucalyptus pilularis tall open forest on Mesozoic to Proterozoic igneous rocks especially granite 12.12.2 · Least concern Official spatial — evidence class
  • 40% — Mixed open forest including combinations of Eucalyptus propinqua, E. siderophloia, Corymbia intermedia, E. microcorys, Lophostemon confertus open forest on Mesozoic to Proterozoic igneous rocks 12.12.15 · Least concern Official spatial — evidence class

No register records how far the water falls. What the contours record is this: the terrain rule fired here because the bed loses 15.0 m within 7.3 m along the watercourse — the test the rule applies, not the height of the fall. Its steepest single stretch drops 5.0 m over 1.4 m of ground — 3.6 m down for every metre along the bed. That is a floor and not a total: the contour interval is the smallest drop this layer can show, so the face is at least this steep and may be far more. Statutory inference — evidence class

On the record — what the registers actually say Sources, licences and dataset versions

What each register holds about this place
Claim What the record says Evidence
Name "Bull Falls" is a community record only — absent from the gazetteer and from the state feature layer. Community — evidence class
Tenure Resolved to Protected estate, recorded as "National Park". Official spatial — evidence class
Parcel 893NPW751 Official spatial — evidence class
Council area This place sits inside Moreton Bay, tested against the boundary that council area publishes. Official spatial — evidence class
Estate D'Aguilar National Park , designated National Park. Declared under the Nature Conservation Act 1992; IUCN category II; 39,129 ha as gazetted; current gazettal 7 Dec 2023; first gazetted 24 May 1930; no encumbrance recorded. Official spatial — evidence class
Watercourse No named watercourse in the snapshot runs within range of this point. The layer maps many creeks it has never named. —
Feature Found by the terrain rule falls-rule/1, which fired because the bed loses 15.0 m within 7.3 m — the threshold it tests, not the height of the fall. Steepest stretch measured: 5.0 m over 1.4 m. A rule fired — nobody surveyed it. Statutory inference — evidence class

Officially this place exists only as an unnamed feature on public land. The name is a community record; everything else on this page is computed from gazetted, official spatial or statutory-inference sources, and the two are never mixed.

Where it is

Map

Map of Bull Falls and the starts of the 3 published approaches to it, over the parcels, corridors, estate and tracks around them.

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.

Is there a track to it Measured in plan and in section

The way passes this place Official spatial — evidence class

Falls Walking Track passes 23 m from the recorded point. There is 20 m of climb or drop between the two, read at a 5.0 m contour interval. The contours give the height between them and never which way round it is, so this is a separation and not a descent to plan.

The way comes close enough to be a way to this place without the record establishing that it ends at it. A register gives a feature one coordinate and a feature is not a point, so the two measurements above are the whole of the claim: how far off the way passes, and what height separates the two. Nothing here says the last of that gap can be crossed. Whether there is a lawful way to that way is a separate question, and the approaches below are where it is answered.

Approaches — one page each 3 published of 5 computed

5 ways in were computed and 3 are published here. The rest either reach the same ground from a few hundred metres away — the same drive and the same walk — or reach no lawful chain at all, which is only worth saying when nothing else does.

Bull Falls from Falls Road

Official spatial · Lawful, nothing to flag — evidence class bull-falls--from-falls-road
Verdict
Lawful, nothing to flag
One way
2415.0 m
Caveats
none

A lawful chain was established from this entry. Open the route page for the legs, the crossings and what each one rests on.

Bull Falls from Gantry carpark

Official spatial · Lawful, nothing to flag — evidence class bull-falls--from-gantry-carpark
Verdict
Lawful, nothing to flag
One way
1523.4 m
Caveats
none

A lawful chain was established from this entry. Open the route page for the legs, the crossings and what each one rests on.

Bull Falls from Pickerings Break

Official spatial · Lawful, nothing to flag — evidence class bull-falls--from-pickerings-break
Verdict
Lawful, nothing to flag
One way
1886.3 m
Caveats
none

A lawful chain was established from this entry. Open the route page for the legs, the crossings and what each one rests on.

Before you go Published alerts as at the snapshot date

The authority that manages this area publishes its alerts as data, and it published none for here in the snapshot this page was built from. That is not the same as "open" — a snapshot is a moment, and conditions move faster than one.

On Country

Registered Aboriginal cultural heritage party: Jinibara People — this point falls inside the registered party boundary. Official spatial — evidence class

A cultural heritage party boundary and a native title claim are different legal things. This page never conflates them, and it publishes neither as a permission.

All land and waters in Queensland carry a duty of care under s.23 of the Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2003 (Qld) — including here. Cultural heritage site locations are restricted by law (ss.38–46), deliberately, for site protection. This site holds party boundaries only and will never republish site locations. Check the public register and, where in doubt, seek guidance from the Aboriginal party for the area.

Searching a register does not of itself satisfy the duty of care.

Rules here — derived from tenure National Park · statutory inference

This point sits on protected estate. In Queensland that ordinarily means no dogs or pets, no open fires outside provided facilities, no camping outside designated areas, no drones without authority, and nothing taken. These follow from the tenure and the legislation that governs it — they are statutory inference, not a copy of a sign.

Statutes relied on: Nature Conservation Act 1992 (Qld) and its regulations for protected estate; Water Act 2000 (Qld) s.21 for watercourse beds; Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2003 (Qld) ss.23 and 38–46 for the duty of care and for why site locations are never republished here.

If something goes wrong

Emergency reference — read this to 000

Location
Bull Falls (community name — not in any government register), D'Aguilar National Park
Lot on plan
893NPW751
Coordinates
-27.08266, 152.69637 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
waterfall

What this place was read from