[libstripper]

This reminds me of an old, and true, Explorer Scout story. In the summer of 1960 (that's right, 1960) my Explorer post and I went on a late August trip to Isle Royale National Park, located at the NW end of Lake Superior. We were all pretty good swimmers and some of us, myself not included, decided to go for a swim in the lake. The swimmers ran out to the end of a pier, jumped in, immediately almost froze to death, screamed in pain, and shot out of the water like so many handballs bouncing off a wall. The rest of us just about died laughing.

[IronJack]

I had a boss who used to sail up around the Apostles during the summer. He said that every year someone unfamiliar with the lake would anchor out in the deeps and jump in for a quick swim ... then just as quicly jump right back out!

He said it also wasn’t unusual for them to suffer heart attacks from the shock and drown. Said he watched it happen once and even aided in the search for the body.

The Big Lake doesn’t forgive.

Close to shore, the water can be tolerable. We’ve taken the kids swimming at Sandy Point. But they don’t go out very far and they don’t stay in long.

[Democrat_media]

We should throw all democrats that believe in global warming into the waters up there now. they all do believe in global warming.

global warming is a hoax democrats created to grow government, to grow socialism and enslave us

[Resolute Conservative]

I had the same experience swimming in the upper Columbia River one summer. We walked barefoot down the beach burning our feet on the black sands and jumped into the river only to meet with 40 degree water. We stood on the shoreline jumping back and forth from water to beach trying to decide to try and run back up the beach or suffer the water. We took the beach run back for our shoes.