Around the Park: New Year's dip raises money for Chesapeake Bay Foundation

The deep chill of the Arctic came to the community of Stewart's Landing on New Year's Day by way of the annual Penguin Plunge.

The event brought out 34 residents - most wearing only bathing suits or T-shirts and shorts - who plunged into the icy waters of Old Man Creek, located off of the Magothy River.

The second annual submersion was once again held at the community marina and made possible after Stewart's Landing resident Thurman Reynolds, founder of the event, broke a quarter-inch layer of ice that had formed on top of the water, starting at the beach-area launch site of the plunge.

True outdoorsman that...