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Weeki Wachee Springs is a natural tourist attraction located in Weeki Wachee, Florida, where underwater performances by "mermaids," women wearing fish tails as well as other fanciful outfits, can be viewed in an aquarium-like setting in the spring of the Weeki Wachee River.
Weeki Wachee was founded as a city in 1966 to promote the local mermaid attraction. With fewer than 15 residents, and increased concerns over the city's finances, services, and state park operations, state representative Blaise Ingoglia sponsored a bill to dissolve the city, and Governor Ron DeSantis signed it into law in June 2020.
The springs were the first tourist attraction in Florida. [3] In the 1860s, Samuel O. Howse bought the 242 acres [3] surrounding the headwaters of the Silver River.Several years after the American Civil War, the springs began to attract tourists from the North via steamboats up the Silver River. [4]
The show follows the adventures of 15-year-old Zac and mermaids Sirena, Nixie, and Lyla. [23] In the final series of the show, Cariba Heine makes a guest appearance as Rikki. In May 2015, an animated spinoff targeted to children premiered on Netflix , titled H 2 O: Mermaid Adventures .
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In 1948, Perry spearheaded the development of the Weeki Wachee Springs attraction, and is credited with performing the first underwater shows there. His daughter Margaret Eileen Perry performed as one of the youngest mermaids ever at the springs in 1948 at age 13. It was later that year that Perry met his future wife Dot.
At age 6, he began drawing portraits of the mermaids at the park and making mermaid tails from plastic bags stuck together with glue sticks. He swam in the tails and began training for underwater life. Later, he hand-sewed his first fabric tails. [2] Ducharme attended camp at Weeki Wachee Springs and developed friendships with the mermaids.