Yebri Creek from Cornell Close
Access verdict · Lawful, with caveats · weakest evidence in the chain: statutory inference
A lawful approach from Cornell Close, 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 -27.28200, 152.98785
That is Cornell Close, where the walk below begins — 7.2 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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-27.28200, 152.98785
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 | 32379 | nothing mapped | 17.5 m | 152.8° SSE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 2 | Road reserve | 32341 | nothing mapped | 33.2 m | 160.6° SSE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 3 | Road reserve | 2905914 | nothing mapped | 501.4 m | 86.9° E | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 4 | Road reserve | 2906522 | nothing mapped | 356.1 m | 172.2° S | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 5 | Watercourse bed | 68175 | nothing mapped | 298.1 m | 112.2° ESE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 6 | Road reserve | 67909 | nothing mapped | 32.6 m | 63.2° ENE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 7 | Watercourse bed | 395469 | nothing mapped | 517.0 m | 100.3° E | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 8 | Watercourse bed | 611475 | nothing mapped | 456.4 m | 171.4° S | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 9 | Watercourse bed | 610715 | nothing mapped | 299.1 m | 145.4° SE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 10 | Watercourse bed | 610639 | nothing mapped | 345.9 m | 132.3° SE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 11 | Watercourse bed | 611133 | nothing mapped | 361.3 m | 22.0° NNE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 12 | Watercourse bed | 611399 | nothing mapped | 225.9 m | 84.0° E | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 13 | Watercourse bed | 611323 | nothing mapped | 299.8 m | 67.0° ENE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 14 | Watercourse bed | 611361 | nothing mapped | 307.6 m | 20.8° NNE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 15 | Watercourse bed | 2817716 | nothing mapped | 1073.5 m | 320.4° NW | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 16 | Watercourse bed | 1627193 | nothing mapped | 1093.3 m | 329.5° NNW | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 17 | Watercourse bed | 395735 | nothing mapped | 138.7 m | 349.8° N | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 18 | Watercourse bed | 395697 | nothing mapped | 197.1 m | 292.5° WNW | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 19 | Watercourse bed | 395887 | nothing mapped | 187.9 m | 279.5° W | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 20 | Watercourse bed | 3783054 | nothing mapped | 497.9 m | 306.6° NW | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| Total | no way mapped | 7240.3 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 2906522 and 67909 is 294.39 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 67909 and 611475 is 405.29 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 395469 and 610715 is 450.90 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 611475 and 610639 is 290.45 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 610715 and 611133 is 250.07 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 610639 and 611399 is 358.73 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 611133 and 611323 is 225.00 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 611399 and 611361 is 288.09 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 611323 and 2817716 is 266.61 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 611361 and 1627193 is 708.25 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2817716 and 395735 is 0.00 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1627193 and 395697 is 0.00 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 395735 and 395887 is 0.00 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 395697 and 3783054 is 0.00 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
5 m up and 5 m down on the way out — so the return leg climbs 5 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
- 5.0 m
- Steepest sustained
- 0.2% over 2191.7 m
- Contour interval
- 5.0 m
Every height the contours record along this route
| Distance along | Height |
|---|---|
| 212.9 m | 5.0 m |
| 251.5 m | 5.0 m |
| 254.0 m | 5.0 m |
| 337.3 m | 5.0 m |
| 383.1 m | 5.0 m |
| 387.9 m | 5.0 m |
| 393.4 m | 5.0 m |
| 500.7 m | 5.0 m |
| 519.6 m | 5.0 m |
| 525.3 m | 5.0 m |
| 650.7 m | 5.0 m |
| 654.8 m | 5.0 m |
| 663.1 m | 5.0 m |
| 2854.8 m | 0.0 m |
| 2861.8 m | 0.0 m |
| 2935.7 m | 0.0 m |
| 2942.5 m | 0.0 m |
| 3450.8 m | 0.0 m |
| 7036.4 m | 5.0 m |
| 7040.8 m | 5.0 m |
| 7040.8 m | 5.0 m |
| 7217.9 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: 20 legs from Cornell Close, 7240.3 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 3783054, 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: 32379 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
17.5 m at 152.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 32379 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 2: 32341 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
33.2 m at 160.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 32341 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 3: 2905914 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
501.4 m at 86.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 2905914 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 4: 2906522 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
356.1 m at 172.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 2906522 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 5: 68175 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
298.1 m at 112.2°. 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 68175 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 6: 67909 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
32.6 m at 63.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 67909 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 7: 395469 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
517.0 m at 100.3°. 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 395469 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 8: 611475 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
456.4 m at 171.4°. 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 611475 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 9: 610715 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
299.1 m at 145.4°. 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 610715 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 10: 610639 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
345.9 m at 132.3°. 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 610639 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 11: 611133 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
361.3 m at 22.0°. 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 611133 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 12: 611399 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
225.9 m at 84.0°. 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 611399 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 13: 611323 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
299.8 m at 67.0°. 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 611323 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 14: 611361 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
307.6 m at 20.8°. 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 611361 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 15: 2817716 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
1073.5 m at 320.4°. 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 2817716 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 16: 1627193 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
1093.3 m at 329.5°. 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 1627193 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 17: 395735 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
138.7 m at 349.8°. 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 395735 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 18: 395697 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
197.1 m at 292.5°. 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 395697 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 19: 395887 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
187.9 m at 279.5°. 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 20: 3783054 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
497.9 m at 306.6°. 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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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
- Yebri Creek
- Lot on plan
- 3783054
- Coordinates
- -27.26776, 152.99379 (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