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  • noun Plural form of rockpool.

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Examples

  • We fished in rockpools, built sandcastles, jumped in the waves and picnicked outdoors.

    away 2008

  • We fished in rockpools, built sandcastles, jumped in the waves and picnicked outdoors.

    away 2008

  • Very early on, there wasn't much conflict, because creation/evolution is largely irrelevant if you are just collecting insects and hunting in rockpools.

    Books Most Important to You 2006

  • I was checking out the rockpools and I saw his dad.

    US Woman Gives Birth to Octopus Dungeekin 2009

  • I was checking out the rockpools and I saw his dad.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Dungeekin 2009

  • In the morning, you might walk down to one of Guéthary's three beaches: la Plage du Centre to mess around in the rockpools and eat chipirones (tiny squid) or gambas a la plancha (grilled shrimp) at Kostaldea, a little place right on the beach.

    Classic France: the insiders' guide 2011

  • Caves and anenome-studded rockpools emerge when the sea retreats, and there's even a freshwater waterfall, which is ideal for washing off all that post-swim salt.

    Secret beaches of the south-west: Nanjizal, Cornwall 2011

  • Adrift is wading in the rockpools if you want to use a water/ocean pun.

    Waterlogged Glenn Dunks 2010

  • Sean somehow spotted a blue knob-tailed gecko–a visually stunning lizard with hand like appendages, we spied hundreds of spiders as their red-eyes reflected in our beams, and down near the shore in the rockpools there were dozens of crabs with red mottled shells and purple tinged pincers.

    Week 2: West Coast « Stephen Gaskell 2009

  • So after lunch - salmon and cheese sandwiches, a simple salad, fruit, nutloaf, coffee, tea - we take a stroll along the beach, a wild refuge of seaweed and driftwood and rockpools.

    What I cooked last night. 2006

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