Public Trails Computed from official land records

Noosa · Lake Doonella

Lake Doonella from Homeport Track

entry is a road 0 m of climb chain confidence Statutory inference — evidence class lake-doonella--from-homeport-track

Access verdict · Lawful, with caveats · weakest evidence in the chain: statutory inference

A lawful approach from Homeport Track, 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.

What this verdict means · what the evidence grades mean

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

Getting to the start The trailhead coordinate, not the feature

The start is at -26.38708, 153.04589

That is Homeport Track, where the walk below begins — 1.6 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.

-26.38708, 153.04589

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

Legs of the computed corridor, in order, with the grade of the record that made each one lawful
# Runs along Parcel / reference Mapped along it Distance Bearing Evidence
1 Road reserve 1540649 nothing mapped 157.9 m 234.2° SW Official spatial — evidence class
2 Road reserve 1540611 nothing mapped 28.0 m 256.7° WSW Official spatial — evidence class
3 Watercourse bed 1559953 nothing mapped 323.5 m 222.7° SW Statutory inference — evidence class
4 Watercourse bed 1570821 nothing mapped 249.2 m 176.1° S Statutory inference — evidence class
5 Watercourse bed 1570859 nothing mapped 328.9 m 187.1° S Statutory inference — evidence class
6 Road reserve 1528679 nothing mapped 27.0 m 284.1° WNW Official spatial — evidence class
7 Watercourse bed 1545741 nothing mapped 458.2 m 236.9° WSW Statutory inference — evidence class
Total no way mapped 1572.7 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 1540611 and 1570821 is 267.47 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1559953 and 1570859 is 0.00 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1570821 and 1528679 is 152.24 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 half an hour out and back

at least a quarter of an hour there at least a quarter of an hour back

0 m up and 0 m down on the way out — so the return leg climbs 0 m.

Walking only — nothing is counted for rest, water, photographs, navigation, or the state of the track.

Naismith's rule, and what it does not account for

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

Distance along the route, 0 to 1119.3 m · height 0.0 to 0.0 m Read off an unstated interval along the route's own line Official spatial — evidence class
Total climb
0.0 m
Total descent
0.0 m
Steepest sustained
0.0% over 816.5 m
Contour interval
not stated by the layer
Every height the contours record along this route
Contour crossings along the route, in order, as distance along the route against mapped height
Distance along Height
238.5 m 0.0 m
240.5 m 0.0 m
252.4 m 0.0 m
252.8 m 0.0 m
256.9 m 0.0 m
1073.4 m 0.0 m
1081.8 m 0.0 m
1089.3 m 0.0 m
1119.3 m 0.0 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 an unstated interval cannot evidence a step smaller than the gap between them.

The line on the ground

Map

Route map: 7 legs from Homeport Track, 1572.7 m in total.

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

  • The destination sits on the parcel below Official spatial — evidence class

    Parcel 1545741, 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

  • Leg 1: 1540649 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    157.9 m at 234.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1540649 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 2: 1540611 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    28.0 m at 256.7°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1540611 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 3: 1559953 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    323.5 m at 222.7°. 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 1559953 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 4: 1570821 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    249.2 m at 176.1°. 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 1570821 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 5: 1570859 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    328.9 m at 187.1°. 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 1570859 Grade statutory_inference

  • Leg 6: 1528679 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class

    27.0 m at 284.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1528679 Grade official_spatial

  • Leg 7: 1545741 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class

    458.2 m at 236.9°. 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 1545741 Grade statutory_inference

  • 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
Lake Doonella
Lot on plan
1545741
Coordinates
-26.39750, 153.03778 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
lake

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