A free, cited companion · from the gulf to the ranges
Learn to read the country of Adelaide
Adelaide is the most legible collision of deep time, drought and clearance of any Australian capital — a place where you can read a whole landscape in an afternoon's drive, from the salt of Gulf St Vincent up to the wet summits of the Mount Lofty Ranges and down into the rain-shadow mallee behind. This is the free companion to A Coast Running Out of Water: authored, cited, and made to work on your phone in the field with no signal.
61 guides · 26 concepts · 11 pathways · every claim cited · works offline
Ways in
Concepts · 26
The handful of load-bearing ideas that make the whole landscape read — the backwards sea, the wet refuge, Goyder's Line.
The places & lifeGuides · 61
Places you can stand on and species you can meet, each grounded in the book and cited to its source.
Guided walksPathways · 11
Short, ordered reading paths that string the guides into a walk you can take in the field.
The country from aboveMap
The gulf-to-range region in one picture — the sea on the left, the ranges rising to the right.
Right nowIn Flower
What the country is doing this month — the season-tagged guides in their window today.
Find itSearch
Search every guide, concept and pathway by place, species, habitat or idea.
The thesis, in one line
Deep time built the stage; a Mediterranean summer-drought wrote the rules; the living gulf-to-range gradient demonstrates them; and a city rewrote the surface. Read in that order, the whole story of a coast running out of water falls into place.