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Jon on January 2nd, 2009

Tweet Click Here to Purchase Photo Yesterday, the annual New Year’s ritual of jumping into freezing cold water took place at countless beaches across the nation. This ritual has a few aliases: Polar Bear Plunge, Polar Bear Swim, Penguin Plunge, etc. No matter what you call it, it is all the same, a bunch of [...]

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Jon on January 2nd, 2008

Tweet   On New Year’s Day all across Rhode Island people ran into the frigid waters as part of the annual Polar Bear swim to celebrate The New Year. Rhode Island is of course nicknamed the ocean state, so there is no shortage of beaches to take the plunge. Those taking the plunge had their [...]

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Jon on December 31st, 2006

Tweet Today’s picture for New Year’s eve is a picture of the sunrise over the North Kingstown Town Beach.  This town beach will be the site of a polar bear swim tomorrow.  For anyone not familiar with what a polar bear swim is: it is when people attempt to show their toughness or daringness, or nuttiness on New Year’s day by [...]

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