Homes for creatures of the not-so-deep

Usage examples of tidepools.

They'd studied the tidepools together, but it hadn't been like a lesson, some sneaky education ploy of adult to child.

They climbed up through rolling grasslands where small birds shied away chittering down the wind and a buzzard labored up from among bones with wings that went whoop whoop whoop like a child's toy swung on a string and in the long red sunset the sheets of water on the plain below them lay like tidepools of primal blood.

Sometimes they pretended to be mercenaries fighting combat robots, but more often their games were grounded in the world around them: finding treasures in tidepools, seeing faces and shapes in the scudding white clouds.

And around you I would sculpt stone and create tidepools and populate them with sea stars and sea anemones and those little scarlet crabs.

Fred skirted stranded tidepools, jumped from rock to rock above exploring seafingers, and at last reached the point where there were no more rocks and the free sea spread before him.