Save the Weeki Wachee Mermaids
 

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Wow! I've been meaning to get out to see the Weeki Watchi mermaids for eighteen years now. I guess I'd better hop to it.

Unfortunately there's not much else to do at Weeki Wachee. But the mermaid show is pretty fun.

How bizarre... I just found out about the Weeki Wachee mermaids from J a few days ago. Apparently, it's a favorite of his grandma's.

Damn! I actually used to live near there, and I've never heard of it.

Maybe everyone's "day off from the parks" when they come to Florida might be a good day to go to see the live mermaid show?

I remember going to Weeki Wachi when I was a kid. We used to live about an hour from there. Unfortunately, time has not been very kind to it. But if you love rodeside attractions, this is definately a fun one. I hope it survives.

Ah, Mermaids. :D

I always wanted to be a mermaid as well. I think it had to do with the admiration the Disneyland mermaids got.

Yes. Admiration. We'll go with that word.

Wow. I didn't think anyone outside the state of Florida even knew about Weeki Wachee. Oddly, even having lived here all my life, I've never been there.

During my 6 months in Florida, that was a place on the list we never got to either

Me, too. I used to play mermaid in my grandparent's pool. My parents would make fun of me.

This was last year.

I kid. My gramps sold that house when I was still a kid. But many a summer, I played mermaid. By myself. No way was my brother playing mermaid with me.