roak-pool

Updated: May 25, 2025

As the tide grew lower, they gathered a mess of mussels huge fellows, five and six inches long and bearded like patriarchs. Then, while Billy wandered in a vain search for abalones, Saxon lay and dabbled in the crystal-clear water of a roak-pool, dipping up handfuls of glistening jewels ground bits of shell and pebble of flashing rose and blue and green and violet.

Jack London - The Valley of the Moon