JERSEY EVENING POST (St. Saviour, UK) 02 February 07 Toads in a bit of a hole as the tide comes in (Andy Sibcy)
It might have been raining cats and dogs over recent weeks, but it was toads that were washed up on the Dicq slip last night.
Baffled residents called the JEP after seeing an army of crapauds crawling up the beach. The tide was coming up fast, and one woman faced a race against time to save the toads from the salt water sea that would have killed them.
Veterinary nurse Emily Gorman scurried around the beach for 15 minutes and collected around 25 toads in a bucket. They have been taken to New Era Vets and all but one survived the night.
Miss Gorman said: 'It was a definite race against time. I was running up and down the beach and the tide was racing up.'
How they came to be on the beach is a mystery. Vet Hugh Forshaw says that they may all have been mating in a pond when a surge of water washed them into a stream and out to sea through an outflow pipe.
Toads in a bit of a hole as the tide comes in

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