Cactus-studded ridges are reflected in shady pools deep enough to swim in; wildlife is varied and abundant.

Close to Oudtshoorn's many attractions, a magnificent Victorian house with luxury accommodation, immaculate gardens, shady pool and handpicked antiques & paintings.

At Marakissa River Camp we head down to a shady pool where canoes are bobbing.

Here they held market in shady, smoky pools, where trace elements that had percolated through narrow trails of hot stone finally entered the forest economy.

The main valley contained a common access road running alongside a creek that widened at intervals into shady pools fringed by rocky shelves and overhangs.

Many of the bear-sized rocks sitting in the shady pools were flocked in a dark green velvet of moss and sprinkled with long tawny needles from the white pines that favored the rock slope.

The water rushed over the fall more musically than ever before; the white patches of foam floated round and round the shady pool; the leaves of the sycamore rustled cheerily in the breeze.

Louis Armstrong liked a shady, wady pool.

The Runaway Mine Train is a more picturesque, less paralyzing venture that winds through trees and across a shady pool.

A little over halfway to the lake, we stopped for a snack and drink of water at Rockwell Falls, a picturesque cascade that tumbled down the face of a cliff into a shady pool.