Public Trails Computed from official land records

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

Lobster Creek

Track to nearby a published way, with steps to follow

Gazetted name Difficulty: Unclassified -26.64552, 152.64975 Conondale National Park · National Park watercourse

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

Public land — inside Conondale National Park. A published track reaches it.

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 watercourse — the channel a creek or river runs in, named at one coordinate along a length that may run for kilometres. Whether there is water in it is not recorded, and neither is whether its bed may be walked — that is a question about the land the channel crosses, answered on this site by the tenure chain rather than by the name.

Lobster Creek sits on Booloumba Creek. The surveyed centreline of that watercourse runs 23.3 m from the recorded point, which is the whole evidence for saying it is this one. Official spatial — evidence class

The point falls inside Conondale 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 sedimentary and mafic volcanic rock, mapped as Booloumba beds (Cb) , early carboniferous? in age. The survey describes it as: Quartzose meta-arenite, argillite; haematitic slate, pillow basalt, volcaniclastic breccia Official spatial — evidence class

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

  • 100% — Gallery rainforest (notophyll vine forest) on alluvial plains 12.3.1a , described as 12.3.1 · Endangered Official spatial — 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 "Lobster Creek" is a gazetted register entry. Gazetted — evidence class
Tenure Resolved to Protected estate, recorded as "National Park". Official spatial — evidence class
Parcel 7AP23765 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 Conondale National Park , designated National Park. Declared under the Nature Conservation Act 1992; IUCN category II; 35,835 ha as gazetted; current gazettal 9 Dec 2022; first gazetted 24 Sep 1977; no encumbrance recorded. Official spatial — evidence class
Watercourse Booloumba Creek, whose surveyed centreline runs 23.3 m away. Official spatial — evidence class
Feature Recorded as a watercourse in the source layer; no terrain rule was needed to find it. Official spatial — evidence class

Where it is

Map

Map of Lobster Creek 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

The nearest published way passes 26 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 13 computed

13 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.

Lobster Creek from Booloumba Creek Area 2 Road

Official spatial · Lawful, nothing to flag — evidence class lobster-creek--from-booloumba-creek-area-2-road
Verdict
Lawful, nothing to flag
One way
427.4 m
Caveats
none

A lawful chain was established from this entry. Open the route page for the legs, the crossings and what each one rests on.

Lobster Creek from Braden Road

Statutory inference · Lawful, with caveats — evidence class lobster-creek--from-braden-road
Verdict
Lawful, with caveats
One way
1937.9 m
Caveats
Corner-point junction, Watercourse crossing

A lawful chain was established from this entry. Open the route page for the legs, the crossings and what each one rests on.

Lobster Creek from Camel Track

Official spatial · Lawful, nothing to flag — evidence class lobster-creek--from-camel-track
Verdict
Lawful, nothing to flag
One way
1368.5 m
Caveats
none

A lawful chain was established from this entry. Open the route page for the legs, the crossings and what each one rests on.

Lobster Creek from Internal Roads - Conondale NP

Statutory inference · Lawful, with caveats — evidence class lobster-creek--from-internal-roads-conondale-np
Verdict
Lawful, with caveats
One way
2290.7 m
Caveats
Corner-point junction, Watercourse crossing

A lawful chain was established from this entry. Open the route page for the legs, the crossings and what each one rests on.

Lobster Creek from Mount Allan Road

Official spatial · Lawful, nothing to flag — evidence class lobster-creek--from-mount-allan-road
Verdict
Lawful, nothing to flag
One way
1709.2 m
Caveats
none

A lawful chain was established from this entry. Open the route page for the legs, the crossings and what each one rests on.

Lobster Creek from Track

Statutory inference · Lawful, with caveats — evidence class lobster-creek--from-track
Verdict
Lawful, with caveats
One way
1275.2 m
Caveats
Corner-point junction, Watercourse crossing

A lawful chain was established from this entry. Open the route page for the legs, the crossings and what each one rests on.

Before you go Published alerts as at the snapshot date

The authority that manages this area publishes its alerts as data, and it published none for here in the snapshot this page was built from. That is not the same as "open" — a snapshot is a moment, and conditions move faster than one.

On Country

Registered Aboriginal cultural heritage party: Kabi Kabi First Nation Traditional Owners Native Title Claim Group — this point falls inside the registered party boundary. Official spatial — evidence class

A cultural heritage party boundary and a native title claim are different legal things. This page never conflates them, and it publishes neither as a permission.

All land and waters in Queensland carry a duty of care under s.23 of the Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2003 (Qld) — including here. Cultural heritage site locations are restricted by law (ss.38–46), deliberately, for site protection. This site holds party boundaries only and will never republish site locations. Check the public register and, where in doubt, seek guidance from the Aboriginal party for the area.

Searching a register does not of itself satisfy the duty of care.

Rules here — derived from tenure National Park · statutory inference

This point sits on protected estate. In Queensland that ordinarily means no dogs or pets, no open fires outside provided facilities, no camping outside designated areas, no drones without authority, and nothing taken. These follow from the tenure and the legislation that governs it — they are statutory inference, not a copy of a sign.

Statutes relied on: Nature Conservation Act 1992 (Qld) and its regulations for protected estate; Water Act 2000 (Qld) s.21 for watercourse beds; Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2003 (Qld) ss.23 and 38–46 for the duty of care and for why site locations are never republished here.

If something goes wrong

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Location
Lobster Creek, Conondale National Park
Lot on plan
7AP23765
Coordinates
-26.64552, 152.64975 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
watercourse

What this place was read from