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Scenic Rim · Paddys Waterfall

Paddys Waterfall from Drynan's Break

entry is a road 190 m of climb chain confidence C — provenance grade C: Statutory inference paddys-waterfall--from-drynan-s-break
  • A Gazetted / register — The fact is itself a statutory record.
  • B Official spatial record — Read from a maintained government layer.
  • C Statutory inference — Law applied to B-grade records; not ground-truthed.
  • D Community record — Community sources; labelled, never blended into A–C.

Access verdict · tier 2 of 4 · confidence C (statutory inference, the weakest grade in the chain)

A lawful approach from Drynan's Break, 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.

  1. 1 · Lawful, nothing to flag Every leg is ground the public may cross, and nothing about the chain needs a warning. Whether a built track runs along it is said separately.
  2. 2 · Lawful, with caveats A lawful chain with at least one thing about it that has to be said first. This page is here.
  3. 3 · Unconfirmed No lawful chain could be established from the public record. No route published.
  4. 4 · No lawful route Enclosed by land the public has no right to cross. No route published.

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

Getting to the start The trailhead coordinate, not the feature

The start is at -28.24066, 152.70983

That is Drynan's Break, where the walk below begins — 2.7 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.

-28.24066, 152.70983

Four-wheel-drive only The roads layer marks the road reaching this point as four-wheel-drive. A vehicle that gets most of the way along a road like this can still be stopped by the last of it.

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 Watercourse bed 2057140 nothing mapped 1096.3 m 73.5° ENE C — provenance grade C: Statutory inference
2 Watercourse bed 1182799 nothing mapped 142.4 m 36.5° NE C — provenance grade C: Statutory inference
3 Protected estate 1AP19334 nothing mapped 1447.2 m 316.0° NW B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
Total no way mapped 2685.9 m Chain confidence C — provenance grade C: Statutory inference

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 kept this off tier 1

  • 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 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.
  • Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2057140 and 1AP19334 is 4.82 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.

Following it on the ground No published way to follow

at least 1¾ hours out and back

at least 1 hour there at least three quarters of an hour back

190 m up and 130 m down on the way out — so the return leg climbs 130 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 2684.9 m · height 190.0 to 275.0 m Read off 5.0 m contours along the route's own line B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record
Total climb
190.0 m
Total descent
130.0 m
Steepest sustained
55.5% over 54.0 m
Contour interval
5.0 m
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
31.3 m 215.0 m
124.1 m 210.0 m
147.7 m 210.0 m
153.9 m 210.0 m
201.5 m 210.0 m
205.6 m 215.0 m
209.3 m 220.0 m
213.1 m 225.0 m
217.8 m 230.0 m
262.1 m 230.0 m
285.2 m 225.0 m
309.4 m 220.0 m
335.1 m 215.0 m
361.7 m 210.0 m
369.2 m 210.0 m
460.2 m 210.0 m
503.9 m 205.0 m
532.7 m 200.0 m
611.8 m 195.0 m
655.6 m 195.0 m
660.0 m 200.0 m
670.8 m 205.0 m
699.4 m 205.0 m
732.1 m 200.0 m
767.0 m 195.0 m
816.1 m 190.0 m
866.9 m 190.0 m
886.2 m 195.0 m
915.7 m 195.0 m
939.1 m 195.0 m
987.0 m 195.0 m
1015.0 m 195.0 m
1035.6 m 195.0 m
1045.1 m 190.0 m
1242.7 m 190.0 m
1255.5 m 195.0 m
1277.9 m 200.0 m
1328.2 m 205.0 m
1375.4 m 210.0 m
1466.2 m 215.0 m
1468.5 m 215.0 m
1505.3 m 210.0 m
1516.7 m 205.0 m
1545.8 m 205.0 m
1555.3 m 210.0 m
1571.3 m 215.0 m
1624.7 m 220.0 m
1640.6 m 225.0 m
1674.4 m 230.0 m
1706.5 m 235.0 m
1754.8 m 240.0 m
1799.8 m 245.0 m
1867.8 m 250.0 m
1999.3 m 255.0 m
2025.1 m 260.0 m
2065.0 m 265.0 m
2174.9 m 270.0 m
2213.1 m 270.0 m
2283.1 m 265.0 m
2326.0 m 260.0 m
2359.0 m 255.0 m
2377.6 m 250.0 m
2388.0 m 245.0 m
2399.5 m 240.0 m
2417.7 m 235.0 m
2448.8 m 230.0 m
2457.3 m 230.0 m
2472.7 m 235.0 m
2485.1 m 240.0 m
2494.3 m 245.0 m
2503.4 m 250.0 m
2510.8 m 255.0 m
2518.2 m 260.0 m
2526.7 m 265.0 m
2547.5 m 265.0 m
2551.5 m 260.0 m
2557.0 m 255.0 m
2567.2 m 250.0 m
2589.8 m 250.0 m
2606.4 m 255.0 m
2617.9 m 260.0 m
2655.0 m 265.0 m
2659.5 m 265.0 m
2666.4 m 260.0 m
2676.5 m 260.0 m
2679.9 m 265.0 m
2682.7 m 270.0 m
2684.9 m 275.0 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: 3 legs from Drynan's Break, 2685.9 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 Mount Barney National Park B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record

    Parcel 1AP19334, recorded tenure "National Park". 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; see the footer

  • Leg 1: 2057140 carries a right of passage C — provenance grade C: Statutory inference

    1096.3 m at 73.5°. 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 2057140 Grade C

  • Leg 2: 1182799 carries a right of passage C — provenance grade C: Statutory inference

    142.4 m at 36.5°. 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 1182799 Grade C

  • Leg 3: 1AP19334 carries a right of passage B — provenance grade B: Official spatial record

    1447.2 m at 316.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.

    Leg reference 1AP19334 Grade B

  • The chain is only as strong as its weakest link C — provenance grade C: Statutory inference

    Confidence is not an average. It is the weakest grade in the chain above, which is why a single inferred leg holds the whole route at grade C.

    Composition rule: weakest grade wins Applied at build time

If something goes wrong

Emergency reference — read this to 000

Location
Paddys Waterfall (community name — not in any government register), Mount Barney National Park
Lot on plan
1AP19334
Coordinates
-28.22743, 152.71117 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
waterfall

What this page will never do

  • No user pins

    Every fact here traces to a government layer or a statute and carries a grade, A to C. Community names are quarantined at grade D and labelled as such. Nothing on this page was dropped on a map by a stranger.

  • No invented lawfulness

    Where tenure cannot be confirmed from the public record, the page says so instead of endorsing the route or quietly hiding it. Where no lawful corridor exists at all, none is published — the refusal is the answer.

  • No safety pretence

    A tier is a tenure verdict, not a difficulty or safety rating. Unmanaged terrain, cliffs and flash flooding are not in the cadastre. The engine reads land records, not the weather.

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