Middle of November

On Saturday I went to Myrtleville beach in Cork to photographthe sunrise. Given that we are in the middle of November I was very surprised to see a man dressed in nothing but a swimsuit walk across the beach and go for a swim. My thoughts were something along the lines of " wow , he must be nuts"! As he approached the water he stopped to put on his swim cap and got straight into the water, if it were me I would probably have put in my toe and run back up the beach! Anyway having watched him get into the water my thoughts changed to thoughts of admiration, words like hardy, and brave came to mind. Next thing his companion came down the beach to also go for a swim, only he was wearing a full wet suit and I thought......wimp !