Lake Doonella from Selkirk Drive
Access verdict · Lawful, with caveats · weakest evidence in the chain: statutory inference
A lawful approach from Selkirk Drive, 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 -26.41164, 153.04903
That is Selkirk Drive, where the walk below begins — 8.6 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.
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-26.41164, 153.04903
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 | 5045297 | nothing mapped | 50.4 m | 129.2° SE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 2 | Road reserve | 5045335 | nothing mapped | 101.1 m | 183.4° S | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 3 | Road reserve | 5047007 | nothing mapped | 172.8 m | 139.3° SE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 4 | Road reserve | 417353 | Council footpath network unassessed | 70.1 m | 55.3° NE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 5 | Protected estate | 147NPW889 | nothing mapped | 1971.6 m | 91.3° E | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 6 | Road reserve | 905213 | nothing mapped | 197.5 m | 17.1° NNE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 7 | Watercourse bed | 940629 | nothing mapped | 994.8 m | 54.3° NE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 8 | Protected estate | 169CP849516 | nothing mapped | 261.9 m | 345.5° NNW | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 9 | Road reserve | 961947 | Footpaths unassessed | 106.1 m | 302.4° WNW | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 10 | Protected estate | 167CP849516 | nothing mapped | 244.3 m | 307.8° NW | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 11 | Watercourse bed | 1243147 | nothing mapped | 58.3 m | 328.4° NNW | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 12 | Watercourse bed | 1243413 | nothing mapped | 797.2 m | 318.9° NW | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 13 | Road reserve | 1202905 | nothing mapped | 124.3 m | 47.3° NE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 14 | Road reserve | 1202715 | nothing mapped | 150.6 m | 327.9° NNW | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 15 | Road reserve | 1202867 | nothing mapped | 52.5 m | 263.0° W | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 16 | Watercourse bed | 1246909 | nothing mapped | 746.7 m | 263.4° W | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 17 | Watercourse bed | 1632875 | nothing mapped | 430.9 m | 271.4° W | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 18 | Watercourse bed | 1632913 | nothing mapped | 430.9 m | 271.4° W | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 19 | Watercourse bed | 1350421 | nothing mapped | 616.1 m | 269.8° W | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 20 | Watercourse bed | 1350459 | nothing mapped | 469.1 m | 270.8° W | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 21 | Road reserve | 1388345 | nothing mapped | 91.8 m | 273.6° W | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 22 | Watercourse bed | 1545741 | nothing mapped | 481.1 m | 246.1° WSW | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| Total | 176.2 m mapped | 8620.1 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 905213 and 169CP849516 is 521.12 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 167CP849516 and 1243413 is 0.00 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1243147 and 1202905 is 742.60 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1202867 and 1632875 is 718.53 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1246909 and 1632913 is 0.00 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1632875 and 1350421 is 0.00 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1632913 and 1350459 is 408.66 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1350421 and 1388345 is 128.06 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 steps, but the record maps ground here
at least 3½ hours out and back
at least 1¾ hours there at least 1¾ hours back
5 m up and 10 m down on the way out — so the return leg climbs 10 m.
Walking only — nothing is counted for rest, water, photographs, navigation, or the state of the track.
What is mapped along this chain
A managing authority has surveyed a way along 176 m of this 8620 m chain — about 2% of it. That is a statement about what is on the ground, not about your right to be there, which the parcels above already settled, and not a direction: no step below is measured along any of these ways.
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Leg 4 Council footpath network Official spatial — evidence class
70 m along it · the authority maps it but publishes no assessment of it (Local Government Authority).
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Leg 9 Footpaths Official spatial — evidence class
106 m along it · the authority maps it but publishes no assessment of it (Local Government Authority).
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
- 10.0 m
- Steepest sustained
- 4.6% over 107.8 m
- Contour interval
- 5.0 m
Every height the contours record along this route
| Distance along | Height |
|---|---|
| 126.1 m | 5.0 m |
| 158.4 m | 5.0 m |
| 168.4 m | 5.0 m |
| 381.1 m | 5.0 m |
| 424.8 m | 5.0 m |
| 532.6 m | 10.0 m |
| 679.4 m | 10.0 m |
| 985.3 m | 10.0 m |
| 1209.3 m | 10.0 m |
| 1618.3 m | 5.0 m |
| 2546.4 m | 0.0 m |
| 2647.8 m | 0.0 m |
| 2650.2 m | 0.0 m |
| 2651.5 m | 0.0 m |
| 3407.1 m | 0.0 m |
| 3535.6 m | 0.0 m |
| 4176.3 m | 0.0 m |
| 4427.9 m | 0.0 m |
| 4428.3 m | 0.0 m |
| 4429.1 m | 0.0 m |
| 4852.5 m | 0.0 m |
| 4896.7 m | 0.0 m |
| 4938.5 m | 0.0 m |
| 5018.4 m | 0.0 m |
| 5361.7 m | 0.0 m |
| 5362.4 m | 0.0 m |
| 5362.6 m | 0.0 m |
| 8025.5 m | 0.0 m |
| 8025.9 m | 0.0 m |
| 8026.2 m | 0.0 m |
| 8144.5 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 5.0 m contours cannot evidence a step smaller than the gap between them.
The line on the ground
Map
Route map: 22 legs from Selkirk Drive, 8620.1 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 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
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Leg 1: 5045297 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
50.4 m at 129.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 5045297 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 2: 5045335 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
101.1 m at 183.4°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 5045335 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 3: 5047007 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
172.8 m at 139.3°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 5047007 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 4: 417353 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
70.1 m at 55.3°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 417353 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 5: 147NPW889 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
1971.6 m at 91.3°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 147NPW889 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 6: 905213 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
197.5 m at 17.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 905213 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 7: 940629 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
994.8 m at 54.3°. 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 940629 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 8: 169CP849516 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
261.9 m at 345.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 169CP849516 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 9: 961947 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
106.1 m at 302.4°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 961947 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 10: 167CP849516 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
244.3 m at 307.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 167CP849516 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 11: 1243147 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
58.3 m at 328.4°. 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 1243147 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 12: 1243413 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
797.2 m at 318.9°. 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 1243413 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 13: 1202905 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
124.3 m at 47.3°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1202905 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 14: 1202715 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
150.6 m at 327.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1202715 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 15: 1202867 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
52.5 m at 263.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1202867 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 16: 1246909 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
746.7 m at 263.4°. 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 1246909 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 17: 1632875 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
430.9 m at 271.4°. 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 1632875 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 18: 1632913 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
430.9 m at 271.4°. 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 1632913 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 19: 1350421 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
616.1 m at 269.8°. 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 1350421 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 20: 1350459 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
469.1 m at 270.8°. 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 1350459 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 21: 1388345 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
91.8 m at 273.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1388345 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 22: 1545741 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
481.1 m at 246.1°. 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 1545741 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
- Lake Doonella
- Lot on plan
- 1545741
- Coordinates
- -26.39750, 153.03778 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
- Feature
- lake
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
- QPWS access (walking tracks, roads, facilities) — © State of Queensland CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-23