I’m not sure what it is about footprints.
But I love them, especially when they’re in beach sand.
And when the prints have been made by a critter of some kind (So does this make them pawprints?). 😉
Early morning and late evening are my favorite times to to look for them, when the light is golden and at more of an angle.
If you catch the light at just the right moment, you can watch it fill each print about halfway up with bluish shadow.
And the sand, freshly blown by our delicious sea breezes, creates a kind of rippled background pattern for the footprints that just adds to the magic.