Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Walkies & a product review

Eva and I just got back from the beach.
click on the pics if you want to see at full size
 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...

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  1. yeah but she's lovable. And I been there - I know how beautiful it is :D

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    1. I think I'd trade a bit of lovableness for a little extra grey-matter ;)

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  2. Those pictures are beautiful. When I lived in San Diego, a few years back, I'd quite a few folks sporting those when they ran. Got better traction in the sand.

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    1. Oh, yeah, and they're awesome to hike in too!

      First time I saw them was a few years ago when the husband and I ditched the big family Christmas and ran away to Kauai for a few days. When we hiked up to a waterfall Christmas morning, there were about a half-dozen people wearing them and we really wished we had a pair... that silty ground is super slippery with a few drops of moisture...

      How did you like living in San Diego?

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  3. Yes, you live in a beautiful place - and you have amazing looking shoes :-)

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    1. They feel incredibly strange the first time you put them on... takes a little getting used it ;)

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  4. I saw the ocean one time 25 years ago. To me, it is like seeing Mars :)
    And that blue foot kinda fits my picture of it. Hm.

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    1. ...not seeing the ocean would feel like being on Mars to me. The husband and I lived a year in Calgary/Airdrie, Alberta and we felt starved for the ocean, rain and greenery :)

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  5. You do live in a beautiful part of the world. Our dog eats tree bark, nurf balls and baseball bats.

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    1. Glad I'm not the only one with a dog who eats strange things :)

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