Sunshine Coast Official spatial — evidence class · Sunshine Coast · QLD

Kondalilla Falls

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

Gazetted name -26.67333, 152.86528 Kondalilla National Park · National Park waterfall

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

Public land — inside Kondalilla 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.

Kondalilla Falls sits on Skene Creek. The surveyed centreline of that watercourse runs 2.1 m from the recorded point, which is the whole evidence for saying it is this one. Official spatial — evidence class

The point falls inside Kondalilla 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 felsic volcanic rock, mapped as Wappa Rhyolite (Rmw) , late triassic in age. The survey describes it as: Rhyolite Official spatial — evidence class

The register maps one ecosystem over this ground, each with the share of it the register states.

100% — Eucalyptus pilularis tall open forest on Mesozoic to Proterozoic igneous rocks especially granite 12.12.2 · 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 14.9 m along the watercourse — the test the rule applies, not the height of the fall. Its steepest single stretch drops 5.0 m over 4.4 m of ground — 1.1 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	"Kondalilla Falls" is a gazetted register entry.	Gazetted — evidence class
Tenure	Resolved to Protected estate, recorded as "National Park".	Official spatial — evidence class
Parcel	1AP23629	Official spatial — evidence class
Council area	This place sits inside Sunshine Coast, tested against the boundary that council area publishes.	Official spatial — evidence class
Estate	Kondalilla National Park , designated National Park. Declared under the Nature Conservation Act 1992; IUCN category II; 1,570 ha as gazetted; current gazettal 11 Jun 2021; first gazetted 30 Nov 1963; no encumbrance recorded.	Official spatial — evidence class
Watercourse	Skene Creek, whose surveyed centreline runs 2.1 m away.	Official spatial — evidence class
Feature	Found by the terrain rule falls-rule/1, which fired because the bed loses 15.0 m within 14.9 m — the threshold it tests, not the height of the fall. Steepest stretch measured: 5.0 m over 4.4 m. A rule fired — nobody surveyed it.	Statutory inference — evidence class

Where it is

Map

Map of Kondalilla Falls and the starts of the 6 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 reaches this place Official spatial — evidence class

Kondalilla Falls Circuit passes 1 m from the recorded point. The gap crosses no contour, which is as level as this layer can evidence — not a survey saying the ground is flat.

Both gaps are small enough that the way is a way to this place, not merely one near it.

Approaches — one page each 6 published of 40 computed

40 ways in were computed and 6 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.