The Salty Dogs Friday morning swim is normally an energetic group plunge in the frigid waters of San Francisco Bay, rewarded by hot coffee and music from a battery-powered speaker on the East Beach at Crissy Field, with a restorative portable sauna set up in a tent.
But last Friday’s 7 a.m. plunge was comparatively quiet. Between 50 and 100 people in bathing suits went out, dunked under and stood around in the shallow water as long as they could stand it, then came back in and dispersed.
There was no coffee, no music, no sauna. It was not even an official Friday plunge…