Starting 2023 Off Right With New Year's Day Plunge
Larsen family gathered at the Chilmark Community Center to make their traditional, Norwegian rullepolse, and then a swim.
Larsen family gathered at the Chilmark Community Center to make their traditional, Norwegian rullepolse, and then a swim.
At the gathering everyone wrote a wish on a stone for the coming New Year.
At the gathering everyone wrote a wish on a stone for the coming New Year.
The family threw their wishing stones in the water before taking plunge.
The family threw their wishing stones in the water before taking plunge.
A bracing tradition to start the new year.
A bracing tradition to start the new year.
And the out just as quickly!
And the out just as quickly!
On Eastville Beach hardy swimmers greeted the new year with a polar plunge.
On Eastville Beach hardy swimmers greeted the new year with a polar plunge.
Hardy Vineyarders headed to beaches to celebrate 2023. Not only was it first day, it was also first swim. Wamer than normal air temperaturs encouraged the brisk swims, if only the water was just as warm. Cheers!