The Tadpoles

Hopefully one of the Parents

Before I left for Japan I emptied Kayla's green plastic swimming pool but when I returned it was full of rainwater. And then I noticed about 30 tadpoles swimming around in it. Belonging to cane toads or green tree frogs??....Who knows but I certainly don't want more cane toads.

There's always a green tree frog around the back door and it is often swimming in Kayla's pool at night whereas the cane toads get into it and then can't get out again. I always know when a cane toad has been trapped because when Kayla goes outside in the mornings, she whinges at the cane toad trapped in her pool (& then I have to catch and euthanise the horrid thing).

I've been monitoring the development of my tadpoles and now that the back legs are starting to form, there are only about 4-6 left. Kayla still sits in her pool and the frog still swims in it but I haven't cleaned it. I saw masses of slimy, writhing, big, ugly, cane toad tadpoles in Kakadu but my tadpoles are much smaller and much cuter. They remind me of the tadpoles we used to see in the creek in the bush around Botany Bay (Sydney) when we were kids.