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4.87 (Highly recommend) from 20 votes (406 Visits)

Remember when you were a kid and loved going down the creek?

(May 2007) (rank 119th)

We used to go to the Arboretum in Sherwood/Brisbane and catch guppies and tadpoles all the time.

So I finally sourced some tadpoles recently (hard to find with the lack of rain in recent years, but Sydney has had some good rainfall of late) and took the kids,

some old plastic icecream buckets and a small cheap fish net to the creek (more of a storm water drain but who cares!) where the tadpoles were.living and gave them a go at catching the tadpoles.

Apart from Jesse falling in (only ankle deep water) clothes and all, they had a great time and we caught heaps and heaps of tadpoles. Enough to keep some here, give some to the preschool and give some to friends!

Frogs need more and more protection and their populations are dwindling. We also need to keep toad populations under control in QLD and other areas they are spreading to - so look out for tadpoles - if they are completely jet black throughout - they are most likely to be toads so throw them out so they dont live. But if they are slightly transparent, keep them and nurture them into frogs.

It's a great home learning project that costs absolutely nothing to do. Teach your kids about the environment and putting rubbish in the bin all the time. You dont have to spend lots of money going to zoos and Seaworld etc to teach them about how rubbish affects the environment and how we can help certain species survive. The kids also benefit from the outdoors experience and time with parents.

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	3.00 (Average) \| August 2007 \| bubble

Re: Remember when you were a kid and loved going down the creek?

This brought back a lot of memories for me..... Sad that kids no a days would rather play computer games etc than experience this fabulous free activity...

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	5.00 (Excellent) \| June 2007 \| sluxton

Re: Remember when you were a kid and loved going down the creek?

Well, we've got ourselves some tadpoles now, and I think they are living in tadpole 5 star hotel, sheltered from the wind and rains of Sydney at the moment! I went back to the same creek I got them from and all their colleagues have gone - probably washed away in the storm water, so I think I have saved about 20-50 frogs between my aquarium and the aquarium we gave to our preschool!

The problem is, with air conditioning in the house.....are they going to turn into frogs in winter, when normally they wouldn't have and will they then have the skills to survive in the wild as frogs? Oh! what have I done!

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	4.20 (Good) \| June 2007 \| jimannakateen

Re: Remember when you were a kid and loved going down the creek?

I wish i was still in that time sometimes!!!! LOL

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	5.00 (Excellent) \| May 2007 \| mum2four

Re: Remember when you were a kid and loved going down the creek?

Hi, As a young teenager my parents bought a small property that had a creek ,my sisters and I would walk and pretend we were Harry Buttler in the wild and have so much fun,swimming and hiking along the banks.Great article.

Cham

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	5.00 (Excellent) \| May 2007 \| Ngairi

memories

I remember days of going down to the creek...Mum wouldn't see us all day! We would fish, catch tadpoles, had a rope swing, even travel the storm water drains.

My kids came home the other day after being down the creek near home, and I had a fit when they told me they had been in the storm water drain! No wonder we never told mum what we were up to. LOL

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	5.00 (Excellent) \| May 2007 \| mumof1girl

Remembering those days

I definately remember those days, and luckily for me, we had a fish pond out the back which was in ground, and i would sneak the tadpoles in there all the time. LOL

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	5.00 (Excellent) \| May 2007 \| Kellzacar

Tadpoles

Thanks for the memories . . .

I used to do this on my grandparents farm and some of the other things i used to do gives me goosebumps . . Great idea about the tadpoles . . . May have to see if we can find any.

Cheers Kellz

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	5.00 (Excellent) \| May 2007 \| cazza

memeories-tadpoles

great memories there for sure, my mum used to go mad at me as i wasnt a girly girl and stay inside playing dolls...i was always out with the boys instead......

I took my kids to the seahorse musuem here in tassie and they were so fasinated by the nature of it all.....

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	4.48 (Good) \| May 2007 \| cookclan

Tadpoles

Loved catching them as a kid...We used to catch them as kids somewhere near Chelmer and my cousins house wonder if it was the same place as you hehe.....
Cheers
Angie

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	5.00 (Excellent) \| May 2007 \| merlin0903

tadpoles

angie

do you live in brisy

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	5.00 (Excellent) \| August 2007 \| sluxton

Re: Tadpoles

somewhere near Chelmer? I would say you went to the Arboretum at Sherwood. I grew up at Graceville! Caught many many guppies down there!

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	5.00 (Excellent) \| May 2007 \| merlin0903

tadpoles

i use to love doing that when i was younger , we lived on a fram and had dams and creeks everywhere it was always a fun day looking for them

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	4.82 (Excellent) \| May 2007 \| Libby24

kids and teaching them to look after the environment

My hubby works at a pet store that sells reptiles and for a year we had 2 frogs in hope they would breed so we could show our kids what happens in nature, sadly it didnt work, but i do take them up to the hills a lot and show them and tell them about looking after nature and sticking to paths ect...

It is something we all need to do as we are losing our nature due to housing and polution.

but i do remeber doing this tadpol thing as a kid we also had yabbies on our property too. we also had dugites and blue tounge lizards and the ones i hated scorpions ( they used to come inside at nite)

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	4.82 (Excellent) \| May 2007 \| Jessgore

We used to catch Yabbies...

We used to catch Yabbies as well back in the old days... Ahhh the good old days... Life was so much fun as a kid...

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	5.00 (Excellent) \| May 2007 \| mumof2b

Memories....

I remember catching tadploes with my brothers....it was so much fun.....

Thanks for the memories!

Amanda

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	5.00 (Excellent) \| May 2007 \| crystalmoon

woo hoo

I love tadpoles........they are great in fish ponds too as they eat mosquito lavae. Did you know that out bush now the hawks and crows have learnt how to eat toads without dieing? They swoop down grab the toad drop it from a great height then flip it over and eat it's intestines.......brunch any-one PMSL top article hugs Crystal

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