This video was taken in late Spring of '09 but I thought it was worth reposting here. My husband runs trails and comes to this spot sometimes to find solace and meet with God. He told me about this vernal pool with frogs everywhere and at the time, we had about 3 frogs we had kept through the transformation process. We got them as tadpoles which are herbivores, easy enough to feed with algae tablets, and had kept them after they metamorphosed into frogs which are carnivores - fed on flightless fruit flies. After having had them for about a month, I was done with getting them fruit flies and was ready to release them. The vernal pool seemed perfect for them - secluded, peaceful, romantic. I imagined they would be very happy there with all the other frogs.
So we packed them in a tupperware container with a tiny bit of water, put them in our lunch bag cooler and trekked up the 2 mile trail to get there. Once we were there, we released them and poked around to see all the other frogs. My son somehow tripped one of the dens and they all came hopping out en masse. The vernal pool is located by the cell phone tower close to the end of Live Oak Trail that begins in O'Neill Regional Park. It's mostly uphill and can get very hot quickly on warm days. We ran out of water on our way back that day - kids were great though. We stopped at the little Feed Store on Live Oak Canyon on the way back and got ourselves some ice cold water. Ahhhh.........
Hope it was a happy ending for our little frogs!
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