Cold Play NS welcomes its newcomers with “cold hands and warm hearts.”
On the last day of February at Rainbow Haven beach in Cole Harbour, where the water temperature was a brisk 1℃ and the air was -4℃ (though it felt like -12℃ because, as any east-coaster will tell you, it’s the wind that gets ya) despite the flurries in the air and ice on the ground, over a dozen brave individuals (on this day, it was all women), donning their swimsuits, hats, gloves and neoprene socks, went for a swim. It was one of the coldest dips ever according to Jule Shanks, one of the founders of Cold Play NS, a Facebook group with over 860 members who each share an interest in these cold water swims…