I recently took a short but very enjoyable vacation in the Venice Beach area of Los Angeles. Here in this post I just wrote for my Intrinsic Running site, I talk about running barefoot on the beach. http://intrinsicrunning.com/2015/03/14/barefoot-on-venice-beach/
I MISS California, bred, born, and raised. It seems everywhere in the US, you can find people running shod on the beach. I think you are doing a good job showing them how to do it the "right" way...and with more fun! Love the seagull and seagull footprints. So cute!