Sunshine Coast · Mountain Creek
Mountain Creek from Jessica Boulevard
Access verdict · Lawful, with caveats · weakest evidence in the chain: statutory inference
A lawful approach from Jessica Boulevard, 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 -26.70012, 153.12358
That is Jessica Boulevard, where the walk below begins — 3.9 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
-26.70012, 153.12358
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 | 830843 | nothing mapped | 55.0 m | 44.9° NE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 2 | Road reserve | 838253 | nothing mapped | 79.9 m | 110.0° ESE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 3 | Watercourse bed | 839241 | nothing mapped | 278.8 m | 69.1° ENE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 4 | Watercourse bed | 837645 | nothing mapped | 661.4 m | 8.8° N | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 5 | Watercourse bed | 870439 | nothing mapped | 611.7 m | 349.0° N | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 6 | Watercourse bed | 873517 | nothing mapped | 538.1 m | 267.4° W | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 7 | Watercourse bed | 870971 | nothing mapped | 310.6 m | 203.0° SSW | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 8 | Watercourse bed | 2083061 | nothing mapped | 262.7 m | 215.0° SW | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 9 | Watercourse bed | 2077665 | nothing mapped | 62.7 m | 215.1° SW | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 10 | Watercourse bed | 2083023 | nothing mapped | 400.9 m | 225.0° SW | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 11 | Watercourse bed | 2084961 | nothing mapped | 16.8 m | 242.6° WSW | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 12 | Watercourse bed | 2102973 | nothing mapped | 112.8 m | 231.9° SW | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 13 | Watercourse bed | 863865 | nothing mapped | 22.0 m | 209.9° SSW | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 14 | Watercourse bed | 2103163 | nothing mapped | 7.3 m | 202.6° SSW | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 15 | Watercourse bed | 1327793 | nothing mapped | 12.6 m | 200.8° SSW | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 16 | Watercourse bed | 2103011 | nothing mapped | 122.0 m | 224.9° SW | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 17 | Watercourse bed | 2102631 | nothing mapped | 363.7 m | 212.0° SSW | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| Total | no way mapped | 3919.0 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 838253 and 837645 is 255.41 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 839241 and 870439 is 629.34 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 837645 and 873517 is 600.73 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 870439 and 870971 is 459.97 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 873517 and 2083061 is 227.47 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 870971 and 2077665 is 191.13 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2083061 and 2083023 is 0.00 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2077665 and 2084961 is 341.25 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2083023 and 2102973 is 16.70 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2084961 and 863865 is 95.21 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2102973 and 2103163 is 20.57 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 863865 and 1327793 is 0.00 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 2103163 and 2103011 is 0.00 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1327793 and 2102631 is 88.30 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 1½ hours out and back
at least three quarters of an hour there at least three quarters of an hour back
Walking only — nothing is counted for rest, water, photographs, navigation, or the state of the track. The climb on this route could not be measured, so the figure is flat-ground time and the real walk is longer.
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 No contour cover along this line
No profile is published for this route. The contour layer does not cross its line often enough to describe a climb, and a profile drawn from anything else would be a guess about the ground.
The line on the ground
Map
Route map: 17 legs from Jessica Boulevard, 3919.0 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 2286285, 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: 830843 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
55.0 m at 44.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 830843 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 2: 838253 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
79.9 m at 110.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 838253 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 3: 839241 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
278.8 m at 69.1°. 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 839241 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 4: 837645 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
661.4 m at 8.8°. 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 837645 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 5: 870439 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
611.7 m at 349.0°. 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 870439 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 6: 873517 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
538.1 m at 267.4°. 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 873517 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 7: 870971 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
310.6 m at 203.0°. 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 870971 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 8: 2083061 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
262.7 m at 215.0°. 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 2083061 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 9: 2077665 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
62.7 m at 215.1°. 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 2077665 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 10: 2083023 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
400.9 m at 225.0°. 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 2083023 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 11: 2084961 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
16.8 m at 242.6°. 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 2084961 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 12: 2102973 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
112.8 m at 231.9°. 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 2102973 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 13: 863865 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
22.0 m at 209.9°. 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 863865 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 14: 2103163 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
7.3 m at 202.6°. 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 2103163 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 15: 1327793 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
12.6 m at 200.8°. 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 1327793 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 16: 2103011 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
122.0 m at 224.9°. 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 2103011 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 17: 2102631 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
363.7 m at 212.0°. 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 2102631 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
- Mountain Creek
- Lot on plan
- 2286285
- Coordinates
- -26.70016, 153.11181 (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 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