There was a polar bear plunge at Tybee Island, Georgia today. We were in nearby Savannah, to celebrate the new year with a few quiet days of doing not much of anything. But The Yankee did do the plunge.
These two guys did, too:
But, wait, there’s a video:
I Periscoped a polar bear plunge today. Highlights in the video below, full video here: https://t.co/LymmOV6GF6 pic.twitter.com/xwz0gsqa0H
— kenny smith (@kennysmith) January 1, 2016
It was something like 61 degrees in the air and, while the ocean was no doubt a chilly experience, it was hardly polar today. They say it was cooler last year.
From that same Tybee Island beach, about 12 hours earlier, we sat a few hundred yards up the beach from the New Year’s fireworks:
I tend to think we remember fireworks a bit differently, with a fuzzy recollection. So I like to shoot them that way.