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August 2011

Mermaid Guest? We’d Love to Hear from You!

Leave a Comment / CandyLand of Cottages, Mermaid's Friends and Family /
Our Headquarters, Mermaid Manor! Photo thanks to Lisa Watson

We can never say enough just how much we love our guests here at Mermaid Cottages! Each and every one of you are a treasure we never take for granted. So, when we are lucky enough to receive notes, comments, emails, and reviews about a fabulous stay, we enjoy spreading the joy! We consider each of you- past, present or future guests- part of our extended Mermaid family.

If you have stayed with us, be it recently or not-so-recently, we love hearing from you! You can always email your thoughts, stories, and pictures to diane@mermaidcottages.com, or you can join us on Facebook! Come share your pictures and stories on our Mermaid Cottages Facebook page...we even have a Review link under our profile picture where you can share your experience with us and the rest of the Mermaid family. A few of our cottages even have their very own Facebook pages, where you can share pictures, thoughts, Reviews, and even follow what’s happening here on Tybee. Here’s a list of those pages. Even if you haven’t stayed in a certain cottage (yet!) you can always take a virtual visit before planning a trip of your own!

Breeze Inn Cottage

Fish Camp Cottage

Screened Inn Cottage

Enlisted Mens’ Mess Hall Cottage

Dutton-Waller Cottage

Paula Deen’s Y’all Come Inn Cottage

Paws and Paddles Cottage

Basking Under the Tybee Sun

Memories at the Beach Cottage

A Mermaid’s Tale Cottage

You, our treasured guests, mean the world to us and hearing from you makes our day. We’d love for you to share your Mermaid Experience with us! We can’t wait to hear from you!

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More Tybee Turtle Action!

Leave a Comment / Live Like a Local, Sea Turtles /

If you know anything about Mermaid Cottages, you know we love our sea turtles! Well, the nest action keeps on coming here on Tybee Island. Nest Four hatched Friday, August 5th, during a rain storm. The wonderful folks over at the Tybee Sea Turtle Project even excavated a bit earlier than they planned due to more inclement weather. They found that 82 babies had hatched and made it out of the nest! The also found 17 unhatched eggs and one live baby straggler they happily released into the waves. No casualties either, so Nest Four was a success! Don’t you just love good news? We sure do!

photo credit: Tybee Sea Turtle Project Facebook Page

Speaking of news, have you been following Clover the sea turtle? It is so fascinating to see her journey charted, and right there on your computer screen at that! As of last Saturday, Clover has traveled over 200 miles!

Intrigued? Well, head on over to Seaturtle.org and follow Clover’s journey yourself! Just click the Track a Sea Turtle link, then look for Clover!

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A Tybee Island Novella

1 Comment / General, Sea La Vie /
Photo by Curtis Richardson

I dropped a tear in the ocean.  The day you find it
is the day I will stop missing you.  ~Author Unknown

Coming Soon!

 

Are you sad that All My Children is coming to an end?  Erica Kane never had story lines as good as this!

Follow the lives of an old world family and their connections to the Mermaids of the sea through the four generations that settle in the south and eventually establish Sea La Vie, their Tybee Island Beach Cottage.

The family’s existence and their progress is directly related to the gods and mermaids of the seas…but they don’t always know it.

Tune in each week to follow this saga and for your chance to submit your design ideas for Sea La Vie as this family’s story unfolds.

You may even be asked to submit photos and drawings of what you think the land dwellers and their mysterious sea benefactors look like!

Get ready to meet Roya, the Mermaid Queen.  It’s said her tears would turn into priceless pearls and that her kiss could cure disease.  Anger her and she could command a legion of mermaids to take humans deep beneath the sea, drown them and then eat them.  What do you think she would look like?

Sea La Vie is a progressive, participatory novella.  Heed the sirens’ calls.  You may just end up in a story line!

Be sure to check here each day to join us on this journey.

The adventure starts this weekend!

 

 

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Carolina Mermaids

2 Comments / Mermaid Sightings /

It is never too early to think about the holidays, so we were super excited to see these merry mermaids sent to us from our fan, Debbie! Debbie spotted these lovely ladies close to home around Christmas-time in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Aren’t they festive?!

Fabulous, festive mermaids from Debbie in Myrtle Beach, SC!

Debbie isn’t just a fan…she’s a mermaid at heart! In her own words, she is a mom of three grown children, joyously married, animal lover who loves small town living, old musicals, and Judy Garland movies. Debbie is a Tennessee girl who ended up living her dream in the Lowcounrty of South Carolina. She shares her love of all things Southern and Coastal in her Amazon shop, Carolina Cottage, and on her blog, Debbie’s Front Porch. Make sure you stop by and visit her Carolina Cottage shop (she even has an entire section dedicated to mermaids!) and spend a little time reading all about her view of Lowcountry living! Thanks for sharing your sighting and shop with us Debbie! Don’t be a stranger!

Check out some of the offerings from Debbie's shop, Carolina Cottage!

Have you seen a mermaid lately? We’d sure love to hear about it! Please send your pictures and stories to diane@mermaidcottages.com and let us share them with everyone, right here on our blog! We can’t wait to hear from you!

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Where In The World Is Clover?

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Thanks to the Burton 4H Center and the Tybee Island Community “Cruise With Clover” program, Clover was fitted with an electronic tracking device when she was released on August 4th.

You can follow Clover’s journey through the seas by subscribing to the the satellite tracking program provided by the Georgia Sea Turtle Center.

Just complete the simple tracking form and start getting daily updates right away!  You can track Clover and get updates on each of the sea turtles that currently have tracking devices.

http://youtu.be/fXlPqrg5ic0

 

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