Make a wish

TimT · 02-01-2009, 03:02 PM

The Long Beach Polar bear club has for the last few years done a swim on Super Bowl Sunday.

This year they teamed with Make a Wish to raise some funds for the charity. Also Guinness Book of Records had people present as they were trying to get into the record book for the largest Polar bear plunge....

They needed to have 3000+ swim to get the record.. I have no idea how they can possibly determine how many people went for a dip...

Two of my nieces took a swim...

FWIW air temp 45 water temp 42...

I was actually a very nice beach day, no wind, local restaurants suppied food, there was much imbibing going on...fun time...

onlycafe · 02-01-2009, 03:16 PM

i imagine there will be some hard nipples and significant shrinkage going on.

gassy · 02-01-2009, 05:02 PM

Slight hijack but I donated some of my frequent flyer miles to Make a Wish yesterday.

TimT · 02-01-2009, 05:07 PM

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Slight hijack

No hijack at all.... I think Make a Wish is a good charity... I have recently started helping them in whatever way I can.. I don't have kids.... probably wont have kids...and I have the time and means to help.

ramonesfreak · ramonesfreak's Garage

wow cool! i used to live in Long Beach (loved it) and I dont recall this event . man that water was like ice even in August

TimT · 02-01-2009, 06:08 PM

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man that water was like ice even in August

LOL yea the water gets up to 70 in the dog days of August...