Walkies & a product review

Eva and I just got back from the beach.

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 See that stuff she's walking on? The third picture is what it looks like when the tide's up. It's horribly slippery, as is the driftwood and the barnacle & seaweed coated rocks. If you look in the top two pictures, we walk all the way to the end of that point on the right... but the beach *ends* long before that. 90% of our beach-walk is clambering up and around steep, pointy, very slippery rocks.

My shoe-wear product of choice for our all-terrain walkies?

Vibram five-fingers. Sure they look a little goofy, but they don't slip and it doesn't matter if you step in water, sand, dirt, gravel, or mud. They're also great for running around on wet grass at the dog park 'cause you can dig your toes right in and get plenty of grip.

And yes, that is my little blue foot in the bottom picture, right before I hopped the 4 foot gap of water onto the next rock. I sure as hell wouldn't do it wearing running shoes...

By the way, don't I live in a beautiful part of the world?

...and today Eva's choice of random-indigestible-snack was a piece of sea-glass I had to wrestle out of her mouth. I swear, this dog is not the sharpest tool in the shed...