Find the best adventure sports sunglasses
It’s tough at the top. It’s tough at the bottom. It’s tough in the middle. If you live a life more exciting, it’s tough everywhere and you wouldn’t have it any other way. That‘s what great adventures are all about.
So when you get to some of the most awe inspiring places planet earth has to offer it’s important to see them in all their brilliance. Of course the correct eyewear is not just a matter of style. With all that extra UV exposure, the world’s sunniest and snowiest of places can seriously damage your eyes.
There are so many sunglasses about and in reality a pair of Bvlgari, as glamorous as they are, won’t do what you need when you’re neck deep in scraggy crevices.
Oakley offers some of the best engineered sunglasses on the planet and performance and technology is the Oakley way. Perfect clarity and the Three Point Fit on all frames also results in all-day comfort – one thing that’s often overlooked. A favourite is Oakley’s wonderfully designed Jawbone, with its clever SwitchLock lens change system that means swift changing of your lenses with our planet’s ever changing climate. There’s a smaller SwitchLocker too, the Split Jacket. The lens contours protect against side wind and sun and perfect for the toughest of occasions. Iridium and polarised lens options stop harmful infrared, UV and squint inducing glare while a hydrophobic coating repels water. They’re the choice of the professional and great for climbing, racing, skiing and snowboarding or cycling. Oakley also has a great range of goggles for sports like kitesurfing.
If your adventure is in the water then Bolle’s Marine Collection will suit you down to the ocean bed. Bolle's brilliant Marine Collection is at home on the water as the sailors that use it. There's polarised lenses for the water's harsh glare, there's hydrophobic lenses to repel water and the streaks left behind and there's the choice of offshore and inland lenses.
And who better to prove the collection's worth than Skandia Team GBR. Great Britain is the world's top Olympic Classes sailing nation topping the medal table at the games in 2000, 2004 and 2008.
These Bolle frames have Thermogrip temples and nose pads for a stable, comfortable fit. To ensure the best possible combination of strength, flexibility and minimal weight, all frames are made of the purest available nylon, Bolle's proprietary b-88. For added security, you'll get a floating neck strap too.
But with all this talk of sport we don’t want to forget the less demanding trekking or safari adventures. You’ll need the best in protection but you can choose something a little less sport focused. Under the glare of the plains sun, Maui Jim’s polarised lenses are among the best on the planet and you’ll see the earth’s rainbow of colours as mother nature intended. Gloriously.
Maui’s Evolution brings wearers the optical brilliance of glass with the light feel of polycarbonate and their SuperThin glass is also perfect for prescription brilliance. Clearshell scratch resistance treatment and the bi-gradient mirrors at the top and bottom of the lenses will do the squinting for you and Maui Jim’s High Transmission lens brings brilliance when the outlook is bleak. Maui Jim stands for spectacular colours and unbeatable protection with unmatched clarity and contrast. Blues are bluer. Greens are truer. The difference is impossible to miss. What more would you want when you’re on the game reserve.
When the day’s over Maui Jim is the perfect choice for a walk along the beach too. After all, you’re on holiday.