Reef to range
Learn to read the landscape of the Sunshine Coast
A free field guide to the plants, animals and landscapes of the Sunshine Coast. Every fact is cited to its source, and it works on your phone with no signal.
Identification apps name the species. Reading the Country explains the landscape.
Start here The great gradient (reef to range) Six landscapes, reef to range, and one rule that decides which of them you're standing in. Walk it stop by stop and the rest of the coast falls into place. Walk the gradient → The whole guide library is saved to your phone for the field — how offline works →.
Beyond the guides
Explore the coast's data
The guides explain the landscape. These let you work it yourself — a map you can tap, a web of who depends on whom, the numbers on what's left, and a calendar of what's out this month.
The map The coast in shaded relief, 16 places pinned — tap any patch of bush for what grows there and how much of it is left, or stand somewhere and read the ground under your feet. Open the map → Web of life How a place holds together: 522 documented relationships between 329 residents across 5 places, from the Cooloola sand country to the sea — who shelters whom, who moves whose pollen, and where the evidence for each one comes from. Open a web → State of the Coast The numbers behind the story. 41% of the original bush remains; see which ecosystems kept most, which lost most, and how the clearing and the repair are trending — every figure from published government data. Read the report → In flower now A living calendar of the coast's wildflowers — what's blooming this month, where to see it, and how the year turns from wallum spring to ironbark winter. Open the calendar → Learn Read the signs in a scene and name the country — the skill this guide teaches, made into a game, with a short daily set that brings back what you've learnt. Test your eye →
72 guides 26 concepts 10 guided pathways 5 webs of life, 522 relationships a terrain map a data report the whole book, free works offline, no signal needed
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