The year 2010 was ushered in with the Polar Bear swim at English Bay, in Vancouver. What a Way to start the Vancouver 2010 Olympic year. Every year on New Year's Day, Vancouverites gather at English Bay to plunge into the sea. This is the 90th anniversary of the event. The temperature this year is about 8 degree Celsius. Everybody had tons of fun including our fearless group of seven which were me, Nancy, Anthony, Stu, Paul, Emma and Paige.A couple of thousand people attended, many of them in costumes and some of them could easily be considered freaks in their approach to the swim. The video below that I found on the web shows what I mean. Another highlight of the event is Peter Pantages (founder of Polar Bear Club) Memorial 100 yard swim, however, there was no way our little band of people was ever going to make it that far in the water.
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