How long have they been at Darwin Scott ?
I was working in Weipa when their march finally arrived up there in the 1980's.
When the first few were starting to appear, the government was paying a bounty for any toads caught, so they could do research on them.
A couple of young lads found an old suitcase at the local rubbish tip that was open and had caught some rainwater that a toad had laid its eggs in, the lads found the suitcase when the young toads had just hatched. They closed the suitcase and took it in and collected a small fortune ( from memory it may have been around $500, a lot for schoolkids in those days ) That was the end of the bounty after that.
I was working in Weipa when their march finally arrived up there in the 1980's.
When the first few were starting to appear, the government was paying a bounty for any toads caught, so they could do research on them.
A couple of young lads found an old suitcase at the local rubbish tip that was open and had caught some rainwater that a toad had laid its eggs in, the lads found the suitcase when the young toads had just hatched. They closed the suitcase and took it in and collected a small fortune ( from memory it may have been around $500, a lot for schoolkids in those days ) That was the end of the bounty after that.
