Swimming like a polar bear...

...try almost 2000 Vancouverites each year on New Year's Day. Let's say it's a kind of "fresh start" into the brand new year. Some of the people there seemed to have partied through the night and then cooled down in the ice-cold Pacific. The water had six!!! degrees...The Polar Bear Club of Vancouver is one of the oldest in the world - the first freaks took the plunge into the ocean in 1920. Rabea and I decided to watch the spectacle and join the club in 2010 ;)

More pictures of the event: http://picasaweb.google.com/anjasailer/PolarBearSwimming1109