Some toad or frog had deposited her eggs in my pool, and one day I discovered what seemed like thousands of tiny tadpoles swimming in the shallow, murky waters of my neglected pool.
I got curious about this happening, and not knowing very much about the life cycle of amphibians, I checked it out on the computer and watched with great interest as they grew bigger and, it looked like, smaller in numbers.
So after my week in Ajijic I checked the local inhabitants of the pool, and there were none.
Not one little tadpole.
And now I don't know if there was a natural disaster, or some tadpole eating critter got into the pool and ate them all or, maybe, they all changed from their gills into lungs and drowned because there was no place for them to get out of the water.
I don't know, and I guess I will never know.
It will remain the mystery of the missing tadpoles.
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