Which would make a better "stout walking shoe"? I have shoes with robber soles and shoes with leather soles. With both types the upper shoe is leather which can be shined and look like dress shoes when so. When it comes to walking around comfortably, I will take the rubber soled shoes any day. They feel better and have better traction, meaning that I am less likely to fall on my can on wet floors etc. The problem with the rubber soles, however, is that they tend to wear faster and need to be replaced more often as a result. It's a catch-22 because the more comfortable shoes are worn more often and replaced more often making them more expensive than the leather soled shoes which cost more per pair. In AE's case, if they landed on the reef and needed to walk across it and then walk around the island, I would wear the rubber soled shoes so as to lessen my chances of slipping and falling, especially on the reef. I like the idea of the leather soled and healed shoe to better work the rudder pedals, but for walking around on the reef, I'd go with the rubber. This, of course, doesn't help much with determining what Gallagher would use to determine that a shoe fragment is from a woman's stoutish walking shoe or sandal. LTM-John