The Things You Find in Rockpools (Rockpools, #1)

by Gregg Dunnett

you can feel the weight of the whole cliff above pushing down on you when you go too far into the cliffs.

I like storms. You always get strange things washed up when the waves get big. All the flotsam that's floating around in the ocean gets pushed in. And the jetsam too. (The difference is that one is accidentally put in the ocean, and the other is dumped from ships. I don't know why they need separate words for that.)

First, it kept setting the camera off, so a lot of the clips only show this stupid plant waving its leaves around in front of the screen, and nothing else happening.

had quite a different kind of life, before I joined the force. He’s kind of a hangover from that.

"Well, it's just. . . It says he's listed as a missing person. And he's at risk because his father has tried to kill him on at least one previous occasion."

I'll do something on turtles. We'll be on the kind of beach where they bury their eggs. I'll tag them; maybe I'll paint their shells with the ultraviolet paint.