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Guided pathways
A pathway is a short guided journey — a handful of guides in order, with a check at the end. This is the "learning" room; step in when you want it.
Reading a place — the same skill, four grounds
By the end you can walk into any spot on the coast and read it — infer its rock, soil and water from what grows there — by practising on four deliberately contrasting places.
Pathway · 15 minA day on the sand coast
Read the wallum in the field — name it from its cues, and explain the poverty, the fire and the acid water that make it what it is.
Pathway · 20 minThe fire story — how flame draws the boundaries
By the end you can read fire in the country: name the plants that need it, explain how a patchy burn keeps the coast diverse, and predict what a mosaic will grow.
Pathway · 20 minSignature species — every animal is a bundle of dependencies
By the end you can explain any signature species not as a thing in itself but as a knot of dependencies — the soil, plant, fire and water it cannot live without.
Pathway · 20 minThe soil story — why the ground decides everything
By the end you can stand on bleached white sand and explain, from the rock down, why it grows more kinds of plant than the rainforest on the range.
Teacher track · 40 minWhy poor is rich — the keystone idea, for the classroom
By the end students can explain the central paradox of the coast — that the poorest soil grows the most kinds of plant — and trace it from the rock, through the soil, to the living heath.
Pathway · 25 minReef to range — the whole gradient in one journey
By the end you can name the worlds of the coast in order, from the offshore reef to the basalt range, and explain the one rule — substrate, not rainfall — that lines them all up.
Pathway · 15 minThe naturalist's year — the seasonal round
By the end you can read the calendar in the country: know what each season brings on the coast and why, and predict what to look for when.