Announcement – ‘Little Toe Day’

“Did you know, the average women walks three miles a per day more than the average man?” I said to Noel.

“Walks or talks,” says Noel!

Aside from my humorous husband, I’d like to make today, Little Toe Day.’

Those little, wiggly, appendages on the edge of our feet need some recognition.

The little toe on your foot has many names. It is known as the little toe, baby toe, pinky toe, and the fifth toe. But its real name is Digitus minimus pedis. I refer to mine as Pinkies.

We are bare-footed a lot, especially when sailing and cruising. Our little toes have taken some severe bashings over the years…. rigging, stanchions, anything solid really.

Basically they are strong little critters and very tolerant – so let’s say a big ‘Yay’ for our little toes and learn a bit more about them:

Interesting facts

• Toes can be used to replace fingers
• Stalin’s were webbed
• You can wrestle with them (and there you were wondering what you were going to do tonight!)
• When walking, each time your heel lifts off the ground it forces the toes to carry one half of your body weight
• Butterflies taste with their feet (imagine doing that!)
• Gannets incubate eggs under their webbed feet
• Elephants use their feet to hear – they pick up vibrations of the earth through their soles
• The average foot gets two sizes longer when a person stands up

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  Mmmmm yummy flower! Image courtesy of dan at FreeDigitalPhotos.net

I talk about shoes and ‘spreading’ feet in Cruisers’ AA (accumulated acumen). Over the years of being bare-footed on our boats, my feet spread and changed size.

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