Four brave souls were joined by players from the Under 18 Young Cherrypickers and others on Sunday to take part in the first ever Daffodil Day Dip to be held in Young.
Lenore Schiller, Roy Jewitt, Tami Stuart and Brian Ingram have collectively raised around $10,000 for the Cancer Council by throwing themselves into freezing cold water.
The event took place at Golden Glance Nursery who provided the dam and space for the event which was attended by at least 50 locals, some of whom joined in and got in the water in support of the cause.
Martin Sullivan from Golden Glance even went the extra mile and created steps and a platform that the participants could use to get in and out of the water.
The idea for the event began when Roy approached Lenore and they agreed they would do the dip. Lenore then posted on Facebook looking for a local dam that the event could take part in with Tami jumping on board almost instantly.
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Brian, who has his own story with cancer, was drawn to the idea and asked if he could take part too.
"It was a bit cold," Lenore said when asked how it was.
"But you sort of got used to it, we were in there probably for 10 to 15 minutes.
"You just didn't feel it after a while."
As a lifeguard at the Young Aquatic Centre and an instructor for water aerobics Lenore spends a lot of time in the water throughout the year, however, she said the experience on Sunday was on a whole different level.
"As soon as you take that plunge it took your breath away."
Roy was very pleased with the number of people who came and supported the dippers as they took the dive.
"It went really well, we had a good turn out of people," Roy said.
"You never know whether you're going to get one person or five people or 50 people, you just don't know, but we had a good turn out and we had a few extras doing the dunk as well, which is exciting."
Roy took the plunge for everyone in the community that has been touched by cancer and said the day was all the more special with Macka and 16-year-old Cherrypicker, Jarryd Foster joining them in the water after the loss of his father to the tragic disease.
"Macka jumped in, he was good friends with Foz," Roy said.
"We've all be affected by it (cancer) but Fozzy was the one when it came up that came to mind.
"And then Jarryd jumped in as well which was good."
Brian took part in the dip knowing from personal experience how much cancer affects everyone in the community and wanted to thank everyone who got behind the cause and supported it.
"I'd like to give a shout out to our community, because everyone that contacted me donated, so that's really good," he said.
"I've been through stage four cancer, had three operations and I'm happy and healthy so I thought it only right that I do a little bit that might help someone else.
"It touches everyone, someone you know or someone's family is affected by this in some way."
Locals are still able to donate by jumping online and visiting the Facebook pages of either Brian, Lenore, Tami or Roy and following the links to make a donation.
Over $700 was raised in cash on Sunday which will be donated locally to Can Assist.
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