Variations on a theme...

TOO cold!!
What feels like a good idea while basking in the scorching sun quickly morphs into nopenopenopenopenope as soon as the first toe hits the surface.
Yes! It is cold. Once I get my armpits in I'm good. But I also grew up swimming in this water and still do regularly. NYE is usually the coldest because we do a post-midnight dip to ring in the new year.
 
Yes! It is cold. Once I get my armpits in I'm good. But I also grew up swimming in this water and still do regularly. NYE is usually the coldest because we do a post-midnight dip to ring in the new year.
...I've done winter bathing exactly once, and the immediate gut reaction wasn't much too different than when I nearly sliced off my fingertip. "What the fuck did I do that for."

Well, you're brave, I'll give you that!
 
Yes! It is cold. Once I get my armpits in I'm good. But I also grew up swimming in this water and still do regularly. NYE is usually the coldest because we do a post-midnight dip to ring in the new year.
Once water gets below about 68 f I’m done. But, I’m also familiar with maritime search and rescue and what cold water does to a person trying to stay alive…
 
Once water gets below about 68 f I’m done. But, I’m also familiar with maritime search and rescue and what cold water does to a person trying to stay alive…
Water temperatures peak in the range 14 to 17°C (57 to 63°F) on around the end of September and are at their lowest in the beginning of April, in the range 10 to 14°C (50 to 57°F). Its always cold. 🤣
 
Yeah, water temps here bottom out around 55f in the middle of winter, too out in the mid 80’s…
 
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Somewhere near Fläm, Norway
 
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