Cane Toad Racing?

Yes, it's true.  We attended another sporting event.  Cane Toad Racing.

It is everything that you can imagine and more.  As an earlier post states, Cane Toads were introduced here to rid the sugar cane of grubs that were destroying the crops...102 were introduced from Puerto Rico, and within 12 months or so, they had increased in number to well over 100,000.  That's a lot of toads.

One of the benefits of this abundant population is Cane Toad Racing.

At the Iron Bar in Port Douglas 

Every evening at 8pm.

Our lucky numbers of 24 and 25 were not chosen.

You pay $5 to see six Cane Toads sit in the middle of a table and have people blow horns at them to get them to move...then, they auction off the privilege of blowing a horn at the same Cane Toads for the main event.  The goal is to blow the horn at your Cane Toad to get them to hop to the end of the table.  It's a complete racket (obviously).  We witnessed one family blow about $200 on buying horn-blowing rights for their 4 kids.  RACKET.

"Jockey's" gathered around blowing horns at their Cane Toad.