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WPCNR NEW YEARS DAY AT RYE BEACH

At a little before noon New Year’s Day, the temperature was 50 degrees and a tad breezy. with sun through the gray clounds and brooding majestic gray Long Island Sound streaching in calm toward the west.

The Long Island Sound off Rye Town Park Pavilion had a water temperature of 43.7 WPCNR degrees. My estimate was over 200 persons  dashing into the surf and perhaps moms and dads and children of all agess milled on the beach to watch men and women, teens and toddlers get a brisk wake up call that 2025 was going to their year, start by swimming splishing and a-splashing in Long Island Sound in the annual Rye Tri club charity event.

At Cold Noon, after an inspiring  Robin Latimer  (Mrs. George Latimer), singing a classic, perfect performance of The Star Spangled Banner.   Her magnificent contralto rang out across the beach perffect amplied was vibrant, and eased with full stately glory into the high notes and held them and ended with mellowed sincerity that inspired the hundreds to dash into the challenge of the Sound.

And there they go!  Whooping! Squealing! High Stepping! After emmersing in the waters, very few dashed out of the the water shock. Some dived in and swam (fast) others waded and all ages participated.

12:20 — 8 true polar bears will still in the Sound being closely observed by lifeguards.

I asked one young man just out of the water how was it, and he told me “It’s nice!”

KOWABONGA! NEXT YEAR THEY’LL BE BACK FOR MORE!