The Clough is mainly shallow and rocky, with occasional pools large enough for swimming, though the water is always cold.
Were Tyler to look over his shoulder, all he would've seen was the very occasional pool of light cast from overhead.
Now it is stranded amid miles of brown earth with occasional pools of water.
It probably lived in warm, seasonally dry habitats with occasional pools of water.
The local habitat is made up of chaparral and oak woodland with occasional vernal pools and summer-dry creek beds.
Nothing grew there, and the only thing to relieve our eyes were occasional pools of rain-water (for rain had lately fallen) wherever there was a little hollow.
The occasional pools of water grew more frequent, and more filthy.
At some times of the year, the river bed is completely dry apart from the occasional pool.
There are occasional deep pools that bigger fish live in.
A moment later they were running along the tide-line, splashing through occasional shallow pools of water.