Sunshine Coast · Martins Creek
Martins Creek from Diddillibah Road
Access verdict · Lawful, with caveats · weakest evidence in the chain: statutory inference
A lawful approach from Diddillibah Road, 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 -26.64605, 153.03511
That is Diddillibah Road, where the walk below begins — 4.8 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.
- Google Maps one link for a desktop browser, Android or iPhone
- Apple Maps the default on iPhone and Mac
- Your own map app hands the coordinate to an installed app, offline ones included
-26.64605, 153.03511
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 | 2050039 | nothing mapped | 291.3 m | 17.8° NNE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 2 | Road reserve | 2050305 | nothing mapped | 625.9 m | 351.9° N | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 3 | Road reserve | 2051027 | nothing mapped | 157.0 m | 336.4° NNW | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 4 | Watercourse bed | 2050989 | nothing mapped | 208.3 m | 352.1° N | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 5 | Watercourse bed | 1746343 | nothing mapped | 427.7 m | 83.8° E | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 6 | Watercourse bed | 1747027 | nothing mapped | 13.5 m | 77.9° ENE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 7 | Watercourse bed | 1746001 | nothing mapped | 661.3 m | 87.3° E | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 8 | Watercourse bed | 1746305 | nothing mapped | 88.0 m | 155.1° SSE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 9 | Road reserve | 1746837 | nothing mapped | 36.4 m | 173.3° S | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 10 | Road reserve | 1746951 | nothing mapped | 115.9 m | 253.5° WSW | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 11 | Road reserve | 1745849 | nothing mapped | 173.0 m | 234.4° SW | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 12 | Road reserve | 1745279 | nothing mapped | 25.0 m | 236.3° WSW | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 13 | Road reserve | 2025529 | nothing mapped | 733.7 m | 188.5° S | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 14 | Road reserve | 2025757 | nothing mapped | 27.2 m | 189.0° S | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 15 | Road reserve | 2025605 | nothing mapped | 115.1 m | 183.9° S | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 16 | Protected estate | 361CG4295 | nothing mapped | 702.8 m | 162.3° SSE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 17 | Watercourse bed | 2028873 | nothing mapped | 136.1 m | 120.2° ESE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 18 | Watercourse bed | 1707963 | nothing mapped | 215.5 m | 263.5° W | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| Total | no way mapped | 4753.7 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 2051027 and 1746343 is 62.55 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2050989 and 1747027 is 425.63 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1746343 and 1746001 is 12.93 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1747027 and 1746305 is 649.45 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1746001 and 1746837 is 8.19 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 361CG4295 and 1707963 is 33.45 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 2 hours out and back
at least 1 hour there at least 1 hour back
5 m up and 45 m down on the way out — so the return leg climbs 45 m.
Walking only — nothing is counted for rest, water, photographs, navigation, or the state of the track.
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
- 45.0 m
- Steepest sustained
- 13.2% over 75.7 m
- Contour interval
- 5.0 m
Every height the contours record along this route
| Distance along | Height |
|---|---|
| 138.7 m | 45.0 m |
| 179.1 m | 40.0 m |
| 214.5 m | 35.0 m |
| 260.8 m | 30.0 m |
| 319.9 m | 25.0 m |
| 436.2 m | 20.0 m |
| 546.5 m | 15.0 m |
| 599.6 m | 10.0 m |
| 857.1 m | 5.0 m |
| 2687.7 m | 5.0 m |
| 2696.8 m | 5.0 m |
| 3241.6 m | 5.0 m |
| 3315.4 m | 10.0 m |
| 3565.9 m | 10.0 m |
| 3608.6 m | 5.0 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: 18 legs from Diddillibah Road, 4753.7 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 1707963, 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: 2050039 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
291.3 m at 17.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 2050039 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 2: 2050305 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
625.9 m at 351.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 2050305 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 3: 2051027 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
157.0 m at 336.4°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 2051027 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 4: 2050989 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
208.3 m at 352.1°. 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 2050989 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 5: 1746343 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
427.7 m at 83.8°. 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 1746343 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 6: 1747027 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
13.5 m at 77.9°. 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 1747027 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 7: 1746001 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
661.3 m at 87.3°. 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 1746001 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 8: 1746305 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
88.0 m at 155.1°. 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 1746305 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 9: 1746837 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
36.4 m at 173.3°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1746837 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 10: 1746951 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
115.9 m at 253.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1746951 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 11: 1745849 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
173.0 m at 234.4°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1745849 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 12: 1745279 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
25.0 m at 236.3°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1745279 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 13: 2025529 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
733.7 m at 188.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 2025529 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 14: 2025757 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
27.2 m at 189.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 2025757 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 15: 2025605 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
115.1 m at 183.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 2025605 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 16: 361CG4295 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
702.8 m at 162.3°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 361CG4295 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 17: 2028873 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
136.1 m at 120.2°. 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 2028873 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 18: 1707963 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
215.5 m at 263.5°. 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 1707963 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
- Martins Creek
- Lot on plan
- 1707963
- Coordinates
- -26.65115, 153.04289 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
- Feature
- watercourse
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