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Ice swimming place.
Ice swimming (avantouinti) is especially popular in Finland.
PS. One more photo in the first comment!
Winter is the perfect time for swimming :D
During winter time, the sea freezes, and people can swim in these small "pools".
Sauna, a bit of swimming, and back to the sauna again.
In Finland the ice swimming tradition has been connected with the sauna. But there are lots of places where you can swim without sauna in Finland during winter. This place is without sauna (only the hot shower inside).
There is a pump that forces the water to circulate under the hole, preventing ice from forming.
This photo is about our life here. Yes, we are crazy polar bears!
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This is a great shot captured by my friend Tom of me swimming in the icy cold river Nene in December.
On my first walk in new year I met someone standing in the water (about 15 min). The temperature was +4°C and at the shores of lake were covered with thin ice because of night ground frost.
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My friend decided to do some winter swimming while we were spending weekend at his cabin. As I hate cold, I decided to take some photos instead.
It's nice and warm.... Maybe... or maybe not ;-))))
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A refreshing dip in icy water :-)))
A traditional Finnish outdoor activity.
[CZ] Pravidelní zimní ukázka otužování...
Pořádá Klub ledních medvědů Třebíč
Voda 0.1°C, vzduch -4°C
[EN] Regular winter swimming demonstration...
Organized by the Polar Bear Club Trebic
Water 0.1°C, wind -4°C
Aleksandra
When the water isn't frozen it still must be warm? Water +2,7°C, Air -7,2°C and uncountable number of different emotions.
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I went for a walk on Saturday by the harbour and the open air swimming pool, and saw this young woman having a very quick dip through the ice.
There was beginning ice on the Limfjord. In the distance you see a human figure who's about to take a dip.
I've used Neural Filters and Super Zoom in the postprocessing, - so there's no EXIF.
Camera: SONY ILCE 6400
Lens: 18-135 mm kit-lens Focal Lenght: 26 mm
ISO: 100
Exp: 1/320
f-stop: 8.0
As long as I've lived here in Australia, I've known that to 'have a bogey' means to have a swim. Despite it now being winter, many are still enjoying a dip in the clear ocean waters, under the beautiful blue sky and bright sunshine.
On this day, all was calm...but on some days this pool and the surrounding rocks are battered fiercely by the ocean and winds.
The Bogey Hole ocean pool was hand-hewn by convicts in 1819 out of a wave-cut rock platform for the personal use of one Major James Morisset.
Morisset was the longest-serving Commandant of Newcastle, and the pool was originally referred to as the 'Commandant's Baths'. The name 'Bogey Hole' came into regular use sometime after, and it may originate from the First Nation Dharawal word meaning 'to bathe'.
Geologically, the rock in the area is sandstone/conglomerate, typical of the coastal areas of the Hawkesbury Sandstone deposit on which our city of Newcastle is built.
The pool dimensions are roughly 10m by 6.5m.
It is listed on the NSW State Heritage Register in recognition of its importance in the course of NSW's European history.
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