Public Trails Computed from official land records

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

Saltwater Creek

Track to nearby a published way, with steps to follow

Gazetted name Difficulty: Unclassified -26.90000, 153.06667 Pumicestone National Park · National Park watercourse

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

Public land — inside Pumicestone 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.

No watercourse the register names runs within range of Saltwater Creek. The layer maps far more creeks than it has ever named, so that is a gap in the record rather than dry ground.

The point falls inside Pumicestone 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 unconsolidated sediment, mapped as Qhct-QLD (Qhct) , holocene in age. The survey describes it as: Silt, mud, sand and minor salt; coastal tidal flats, mangrove flats, supratidal flats, saltpans and grasslands Official spatial — evidence class

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

  • 100% — Casuarina glauca woodland on margins of marine clay plains 12.1.1 · Of concern 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 "Saltwater Creek" is a gazetted register entry. Gazetted — evidence class
Tenure Resolved to Protected estate, recorded as "National Park". Official spatial — evidence class
Parcel 2AP22476 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 Pumicestone National Park , designated National Park. Declared under the Nature Conservation Act 1992; IUCN category II; 1,013 ha as gazetted; current gazettal 14 Dec 2018; first gazetted 4 Jun 2010; no encumbrance recorded. Official spatial — evidence class
Watercourse No named watercourse in the snapshot runs within range of this point. The layer maps many creeks it has never named.
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 Saltwater Creek and the starts of the 14 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 passes this place Official spatial — evidence class

Roys Road passes 34 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.

The way comes close enough to be a way to this place without the record establishing that it ends at it. A register gives a feature one coordinate and a feature is not a point, so the two measurements above are the whole of the claim: how far off the way passes, and what height separates the two. Nothing here says the last of that gap can be crossed. Whether there is a lawful way to that way is a separate question, and the approaches below are where it is answered.

Approaches — one page each 14 published of 53 computed

53 ways in were computed and 14 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.

Saltwater Creek from Dam Access

Statutory inference · Lawful, with caveats — evidence class saltwater-creek--from-dam-access
Verdict
Lawful, with caveats
One way
1857.8 m
Caveats
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.

Saltwater Creek from Driveway Lot 2

Official spatial · Lawful, nothing to flag — evidence class saltwater-creek--from-driveway-lot-2
Verdict
Lawful, nothing to flag
One way
1974.3 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.

Saltwater Creek from East Boundary Break

Statutory inference · Lawful, with caveats — evidence class saltwater-creek--from-east-boundary-break
Verdict
Lawful, with caveats
One way
1671.8 m
Caveats
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.

Saltwater Creek from Esplanade

Statutory inference · Lawful, with caveats — evidence class saltwater-creek--from-esplanade
Verdict
Lawful, with caveats
One way
1016.0 m
Caveats
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.

Saltwater Creek from formed paved track (Non Government)

Statutory inference · Lawful, with caveats — evidence class saltwater-creek--from-formed-paved-track-non-government
Verdict
Lawful, with caveats
One way
2392.3 m
Caveats
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.

Saltwater Creek from minimally formed natural track (Authority or Lease holder)

Official spatial · Lawful, with caveats — evidence class saltwater-creek--from-minimally-formed-natural-track-authority-or-lease-holder-7
Verdict
Lawful, with caveats
One way
2337.8 m
Caveats
Corner-point junction

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

Saltwater Creek from minimally formed natural track off Roys Road

Official spatial · Lawful, nothing to flag — evidence class saltwater-creek--from-minimally-formed-natural-track-off-roys-road
Verdict
Lawful, nothing to flag
One way
723.7 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.

Saltwater Creek from minimally formed natural track off Roys Road

Official spatial · Lawful, nothing to flag — evidence class saltwater-creek--from-minimally-formed-natural-track-off-roys-road-5
Verdict
Lawful, nothing to flag
One way
366.7 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.

Saltwater Creek from minimally formed natural track off Roys Road

Official spatial · Lawful, nothing to flag — evidence class saltwater-creek--from-minimally-formed-natural-track-off-roys-road-9
Verdict
Lawful, nothing to flag
One way
1028.6 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.

Saltwater Creek from minimally formed natural track (Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service)

Official spatial · Lawful, nothing to flag — evidence class saltwater-creek--from-minimally-formed-natural-track-queensland-parks-and-wildlife-service-2
Verdict
Lawful, nothing to flag
One way
1870.8 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.

Saltwater Creek from North Coochin Creek Break

Statutory inference · Lawful, with caveats — evidence class saltwater-creek--from-north-coochin-creek-break
Verdict
Lawful, with caveats
One way
1345.4 m
Caveats
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.

Saltwater Creek from Orchard Perimeter

Official spatial · Lawful, nothing to flag — evidence class saltwater-creek--from-orchard-perimeter
Verdict
Lawful, nothing to flag
One way
3017.1 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.

Saltwater Creek from Roys Road

Official spatial · Lawful, nothing to flag — evidence class saltwater-creek--from-roys-road
Verdict
Lawful, nothing to flag
One way
158.5 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.

Saltwater Creek from Saltwater Creek

Statutory inference · Lawful, with caveats — evidence class saltwater-creek--from-saltwater-creek
Verdict
Lawful, with caveats
One way
2438.9 m
Caveats
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.

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Location
Saltwater Creek, Pumicestone National Park
Lot on plan
2AP22476
Coordinates
-26.90000, 153.06667 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
Feature
watercourse

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