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Live Like a Local: 2nd Annual Tybee Seafood Festival!

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We are SO excited! The 2nd Annual “37th” Tybee Seafood Festival starts today! Founded in April of 2010 and named in honor of the fictitious carnival in the movie, The Last Song, it is Tybee’s annual seafood festival, complete with a carnival! The Seafood Review -the Main Event- will be held at the Pier Saturday, May 7th, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. and admission is free, so make plans to be there! The festival fun is sponsored by Chatham County and the City of Tybee Island and features delicious local favorites prepared by the island’s finest restaurants and caterers. There will also be wonderful live performances by local musicians, so don’t miss a minute!

This family friendly event runs May 4th through May 8th with a Mega Midway Carnival, sponsored by the wonderful Tybee Arts Association. It is only $1 admission per person per day, so its affordable! You can also purchase $20 wristbands each day for unlimited rides! While you’re downtown, don’t forget to enjoy the nearby Tybee Island Marine Science Center, take time to relax on the beach, and browse Tybee’s unique island shops and galleries. Make a weekend out of it all!

For more information about the festival, restaurants involved in the Seafood Review, or the carnival, please check out the Tybee Seafood Fest website and join the fun on the official Facebook page, too. It is going to be a fun filled weekend…we hope you join us!

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Mermaid Sighting: Mermaid Art of Karen Howard

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Have you seen the art of Karen Howard? Well, if you haven’t, you are in for a treat! Karen lives in Northern California. In her worlds,”way out on the edge of this continent.” Her work is wonderfully worn and seaside inspired, and we think its just fabulous! Her hand carved mixed media pieces run the gamot from birds all the way to angels…but our absolute favorites are the mermaids!

 

These hand carved beauties are available over at Karen's shop, make sure to browse all of her amazing work!

Just look at that! I love how each of them has their very own unique, quirky personality. Karen’s whimsical art had us at hello! Make sure you check out all of her work overat her shop, Folk Art by Karen Howard. We guarauntee you will fall in love! She also has gallery pieces you will loveat the ART my ROCK shop as well!

Have you seen a mermaid? Well, keep your camera handy, because they are everywhere! We’d love to hear about your sightings. Please, email your pictures and stories to diane@mermaidcottages.com and your mermaid could be the next featured mermaid sighting! We can’t wait to hear your you!

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Mermaid Cottages Needs Your Creative Genius!

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We love how many Mermaids and Mermen there are out there! And, even if you can’t live on Tybee Island with us, we keep trying to find ways to include you.  Y’all are just so darn creative and did such an amazing job with suggestions on new cottage names (Tucked Inn at Tybee, Made in the Shade)…that’s why we need your help again. We need you to help us with our tag line!

A tag line is a sentence or series of words that help describe a business, company or product.  Nike’s “Just Do It” is one of the best examples!  We’ve had two tag lines in the past – Discovery the Magic of Slowing Down and Cozy Cottages and Historic Homes away from Home – but we are looking for a new one!  We need to find a way to help express what the Mermaid Cottages experiences all about.  Even if you’ve never been to Tybee or stayed at our cottages, you can visit our Blog, Twitter, and Facebook pages and see what we are all about!  Some examples might be Blissful Beach Cottages, Cozy Up with Us, or Pure and Intentional Relaxation. We need to keep the tag lines to within six to ten words, but you can be shorter as well.  Now, we want you to post your submissions to our Mermaid Cottages Facebook Page, so don’t worry about commenting here. Post your tag line ideas right to our Facebook Wall... we’ll be reading them all!

We’ll be collecting the submissions through Wednesday, May 4th,  so get your thinking caps on! After Wednesday, we will read all the submissions, choose our top favorites, and give everyone the chance to vote on them through a Facebook Poll! The person submitting the winning tag line will receive a package of fun, fabulous Mermaid Cottages goodies! We can’t wait to see what y’all come up with! Head over to our Mermaid Cottages Facebook Wall and submit your idea today.

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Mermaids in Our Midst: Our Treasured Guests

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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. I mean, if it wasn’t for y’all, where would be? 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, and that is why we like to feature our guests each week here on the Mermaids in Our Midst posts.

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, 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

You, our treasured guests, mean the world to us and no matter how many times we say thank you, it will ever feel like enough! We hope this weekly feature helps with that a little. It’s just one way for us to tell you that every one of you are Mermaids in our Midst and we wouldn’t have it any other way!

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Live Like a Local: 7th Annual Tybee Turtle Trot

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This Saturday, April 30th, is the 7th Annual Tybee Turtle Trot! The Tybee community looks forward to this 5K beach run every year! This amazing race is an annual event to raise funds for the Tybee Sea Turtle Project and is the kick off to Coastal Georgia’s sea turtle nesting season.

Georgia’s sea turtle season runs from May through October, and we do our best here on Tybee to make sure our sea turtles have the best nesting season ever! Sea Turtle Project Volunteers participate in daily dawn patrols to check for nests laid during the night. When a nest is found, the site is evaluated and any nests below the high tide line are carefully relocated. The nests are protected my marking them off, and daily monitoring. Its truly an amazing sight to discover a nest, and even more exciting to see the nest reach it’s boil, when the newly hatched sea turtles emerge from the nest and strike out toward the ocean!

photo by Amy Gray Capello, from the Tybee Island Sea Turtle Project Facebook Page

It is so important to do everything we can to help sea turtles have their best chance at life! That’s just one reason we are avid supporters of the Tybee Turtle Trot! Help us help the sea turtles and join us this Saturday at the race! You can register online or even download a form on the race site. It is a $25 registration fee, or just $20 for members of the Tybee Island Marine Science Center. Sign in starts at 7:30 a.m.and the race begins at 8:30 a.m. Just come and watch if running isn’t your thing, because there will also be a sea turtle release by the Georgia Sea Turtle Center around 10 a.m. all right in front of the Marine Science Center! We hope to see you there. Join us and get your trot on!

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