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We built our first suburban frog pond five years ago. My sister gave us an old fibre glass pond that we dug in to the garden. We enrolled ourselves on the frog register of the Museum of Western Australia.

The Museum has a system of connecting people with tadpoles to people wanting to establish native frog ponds. We received a call a few weeks later to tell us an address where we could gather some motor bike frog tadpoles.

We took the children and caught our tadpoles out of a big privately owned pond system. The woman who owned the pond was encouraging and showed us the frogs living in her yard. The kids were very excited.

We released them into our pond and the kids had so much fun catching them and releasing them for weeks after. Since then we have moved several times and have upgraded our ponds many times.

It has been such a great experience for our whole family that I have decided to document our experience. Hopefully you will be inspired to start your own frog pond and have a go yourself!

I’d love to hear about your frog pond. You can send me an email using this form.