Beached shoes on Gower (1)

 

There must be a lot of careless or unlucky people around – judging by the number of lost boots, shoes and sandals that turn up on strandlines. I pity those poor folks who ended up walking home with bare feet or hobbling with just one shoe. The photograph above shows a boot I found last summer on Broughton beach: it had obviously been on a long sea voyage.

Here follows a small selection of the footwear that I noticed when I walked along Rhossili beach and Whiteford Sands over two days in April 2009.