First ever visit to an ephemeral wetland

Today we set out to find one of our adopted wetlands.  Let's just say I'm 98% certain but next time I will bring my phone to verify exactly where I am.  First let me say that the wetland is shrinking, and that made for some insane amounts of tadpoles and salamander larvae in small crowded hot pools.  The water bugs were intensely large, and at first it was too distracting to notice the mole salamander larvae.  However after we started looking closer we found 30 large mole salamander larvae, too many to count tadpoles of various frogs: little grass, ornate chorus , and southern cricket.  There were lots of mature gopher frogs and ornate chorus frogs! Wow, it's crazy that just by drying out there are no fish thus no predators and life abounds!