Island welcomes in new year with a splash
On St. George Island, what began several years ago as a family thing behind the house of Heather and Steve Rash, has also steadily grown, to where it moved to the beach behind the Blue Parrot Ocean Front Cafe about three years ago.
“It was great. The air was a little chilly but the water felt awesome,” said John Menton, from Tallahassee, who comes down to St. George Island each year after Christmas and does the plunge with his sister Jane Darby Menton, a doctoral student at the University of Cambridge in England.
“It’s our favorite thing, the best way to start the year,” she said.
“It was cold, very cold but it feels good after you get out,” said young Talen Scott, who did the plunge with her little brother Eldie.
Meet the Editor
David Adlerstein, The Apalachicola Times’ digital editor, started with the news outlet in January 2002 as a reporter.
Prior to then, David Adlerstein began as a newspaperman with a small Boston weekly, after graduating magna cum laude from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. He later edited the weekly Bellville Times, and as business reporter for the daily Marion Star, both not far from his hometown of Columbus, Ohio.
In 1995, he moved to South Florida, and worked as a business reporter and editor of Medical Business newspaper. In Jan. 2002, he began with the Apalachicola Times, first as reporter and later as editor, and in Oct. 2020, also began editing the Port St. Joe Star.