FEEL ALIVE ON NEW YEARS DAY!!!!!!!!
Starts promptly at 11:00 a.m. Sunday January 1st 2012 at the swim area at the North end of Cascade Lake.
Contact Martin Taylor if you have any questions martin@orcasdigerati.com or 376-6935.
The Polar Bear Plunge is an Orcas Island tradition and a low key fund raiser for the Orcas Island Junior rowing club (OIRA). It’s also a fun social gathering even if you don’t take the plunge yourself!
If you want to start the New Year with a jolt that will bring you wide awake you should participate in an Orcas Tradition: The Polar Bear Plunge. It’s a simple event, Dave Roseberry the master of ceremonies will give the shout and the hearty souls of Orcas will charge headlong into Cascade Lake. Within a few seconds they will re-emerge shocked into a new perspective on the world. Plan to be there early. The event will start on time. There’s no charge to jump in the lake. Free paramedics will be standing by.
- Order PLUNGE tee shirts for $20 each by calling Max Blackadar at 376-4507 or email maxblackadar@gmail.com.
- Tee shirts and club dinner reservations will be offered on sale by junior crew team members at the Island Market as follows:
- Friday December 16th @ 3 to 5 p.m.
- Sunday December 18th @ 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
- Friday December 23rd @ 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
- Download a sponsorship form and get our friends and family to help you hold to your resolve to take the PLUNGE and feel truly ALIVE on New Years day. Oh and raise a few $$$$ for OIRA.
Plunge sponsorship form - Send sponsorship or donation money to:
OIRA
P.O. Box 1481
Eastsound, WA, 98245
(360) 376-7677 - Or make a donation right here online:
The first Plunge was on Jan 1st 1998. That year local sheriff’s deputies Ray Clever, Ed Commet and Herb Crowe were auctioned off and paid to jump in the lake.
Since then there has been a theme for each Plunge:
- 1999 – Winter Luau
- 2000 – Millennium Morning Toga Party
- 2001 – Soggy Prom
- 2002 – Soggy Super heroes
- 2003 – Washed-up Rock Stars
- 2004 – Frozen 50′s Soggy Sock Hop
- 2005 – Masquerade
- 2006 – Frozen Farmers
- 2007 – Freeze Your Booty
- 2008 – Hypothermic Haberdashery & Frigid Frocks
- 2009 – Save the Polar Bear
- 2010 – Hippy Nippy Dip
- 2011 – Glacial Getaway
- 2012 – Frozen In Time
So come on down and be one with Orcas Island as you take the plunge!
Here are some photos from an unusual perspective (from the water) from 2011.
Here are some photos from the land of the 2011 Plunge
Contact Martin Taylor if you have any questions martin@orcasdigerati.com or 376-6935.