Category: Photography

  • One week in Lanzarote

    This year Carmen and I went on a holiday to Lanzarote, the easternmost island of the Canary Islands. It’s a relatively small island located in the Atlantic Ocean, just a bit more than 100 kilometers west of Africa. We left home very early in the morning on Wednesday July 15th and arrived at the hotel…

  • Froglets swimming and jumping around

    About seven weeks ago frogs laid eggs in our pond, the last time I wrote about them they were still in their tadpole stage and by now most of them have developed legs. Some develop much quicker than others though, there are some tadpoles in our pond that don’t have legs yet, while at least…

  • Update on the tadpoles

    It’s been over two weeks since I last wrote about my tadpoles, since then they’ve grown quite a bit and I have put most of them back in the pond. I thought about 30 tadpoles would hatch from the frogspawn I collected about a month ago, but it turned out to be at least double…

  • Tiny tadpoles starting to swim

    My tadpoles are growing up extremely fast. Thursday there were just in their egg stage, but today most of them are already swimming around a bit. The ones I’m raising inside are developing much faster than the ones in the pond, it seems that the warmer and more stable room temperature is doing them a…

  • Lots of frogspawn in our pond

    Thursday I discovered lots of frogspawn in our little garden pond, the two brown frogs I spotted earlier this week have laid hundreds of eggs between the waterplants. There are so many eggs because most of them never turn into a frog, but considering that there aren’t any predators (like goldfish) in our pond it’s possible many of them…