tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30584505.post8952571099525685516..comments2024-03-21T13:06:46.763-07:00Comments on Wanderin' Weeta (With Waterfowl and Weeds): What a difference a shoe makes!Susannah Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11923063322849781223noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30584505.post-41683234284012592492008-08-10T02:35:00.000-07:002008-08-10T02:35:00.000-07:00Thanks, Hugh. For some of the things we find, I th...Thanks, Hugh. For some of the things we find, I think we need a salt-water aquarium so we can watch them as they turn into something recognizable.<BR/><BR/>Re the cut foot: doesn't it always happen that way? He never would have cut his foot if he'd just plain been barefoot. But having shoes and ditching them is almost a guarantee of trouble. (Well, not quite. Sometimes it seems that way, though.)<BR/><BR/>I don't mind going barefoot; I do at home, even walking around outside. But the rocks between the sand and the beach are pretty sharp.Susannah Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11923063322849781223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30584505.post-42305073823082209212008-08-10T00:02:00.000-07:002008-08-10T00:02:00.000-07:00I spent more time than I should have trying to id ...I spent more time than I should have trying to id those eggs, but no joy. Gastropod sp.<BR/><BR/>About footwear: When I worked as an interpreter at Boundary Bay I clumped around in gumboots on public low tide programs while the public happily ditched their shoes and went barefoot. No one ever got hurt. Since then our family has always waded shoeless, several times a summer, again with no misadventures, until recently when my wife bought the kids those rubber clog-things of which you write and my son wore a pair out onto the mud. He soon found the intra-clog ooziness too much to bear, and took them off. Half a mile out, he cut his foot on a clam shell and I had to carry him back to shore. <BR/><BR/>So there remains much to learn about Boundary Bay, about mollusc eggs and about footwear. <BR/><BR/>(And thanks for the link!)Hugh Griffithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10009591922841705072noreply@blogger.com