On Sep 5, 11:39*pm, Wayne.B wrote:
On Thu, 6 Sep 2012 01:35:12 +0000 (UTC), thunder
wrote:

On Wed, 05 Sep 2012 17:46:35 -0700, North Star wrote:

What's wrong with mid 60F water.
Y'all sure have gone and gotten sissified.

It's a Florida thing. *If you go down there in the winter, the locals
will be wearing their winter jackets, sometimes down jackets. *The
tourists from Michigan will be bare chested, riding in the back of a
pickup truck, heading to the beach for a swim.

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Except for the "Spring Breakers" the Michigan folks seem to have more
sense than that. * When we see adults swimming at the beach in the
winter we usually assume they're Canadian.

...After an unusually hot summer... here's todays info from the buoy
off Halifax Harbour..
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=44258