SHIVER ME
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By Andrea Rowe Photos Yanni
We have become alienated from nature. But the cold is capable of bringing us back to what we once had lost
Wim Hof
E ssence
12 | PENINSULA
September 2021
A
soft stripe of orange draws a line of morning across the bay. Choppy waves lap at the ankles of a gutsy group who gather at dawn. They call themselves Swim Club. Track-suited adults and children trickle in through the darkness, dropping towels and clothes about them in a messy pile. At this hour, a line of beach boxes is the only witnesses to their gathering.