Winter bath

Almost everyone enjoys having a bath in the Baltic Sea during summer, but some people have a bath in the cold waters of Baltic during ... winter.They call themselves walruses.

Each year more people are taking part in the International Walruses' Meeting that usually takes place at coastal Mielno - that is Koszalin's close neighbour. On Friday, 13 February, the Meeting for the sixth time started with activities like nordic walking, aerobics, quad raids and the evening feast. Until Saturday, 1164 walruses (462 women and 702 men) registered to take part in the event. Eventually, the colourful parade of walruses started its way to the beach through the streets of Mielno. The air temperature was about 4 Celsius degrees, the water temperature was about 1 -2 degrees. The walruses sang their anthem, did some warm-up exercises and just at 12 o'clock ran into cold water to have a bath, some of them even 15 minute long one... Thousands of spectators watched those brave people who are not afraid of the cold Baltic.