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Thousands of naked swimmers run into icy water in mass skinny dip for winter solstice
ABC News, Portia Predny, from Sydney added: ‘I was pretty keen from the start, as soon as I knew it was a thing.‘It was fabulous … You don’t even notice the cold so much, you just notice that it’s bracing and exhilarating and adrenaline-inducing, and you just need to move as fast as possible.’Another reveller from the mainland described the experience as a ‘baptism of freezing fire’.And while here in the UK, rituals were being held on Monday to mark the longest day, the tilt on the earth's axis meant it was the shortest day of the year down under.Sangitha, 28, said: “We were here and I thought it’s probably a thing we’d never do again.