03/05/2026
🎒 It's time to pack my bags for my last weekend as a mermaid.
🤡 My "circus family" have become so special to me.
🧜♀️ Thanks first to Una The Mermaid for contacting me in 2020 when we announced that we were creating a mermaid museum. She was been our star attraction every year. Getting to work with her, Jason Botel, and Moth, has been a lesson in "the show must go on."
🦄 Thanks to Crystal Anne and Wally Somero from The PNW Unicorns and the PNW Bucket List for years of collaboration. We are kindred spirits and I have learned so much.
☠️ Thanks to Ashley Morgan, known as Siren Circe, from What Dwells Beneath, and Pirate Clifford Luke Morgan for years of advice and inspiration.
💃 Thanks to Rachel Novak The Sailing Siren for that first podcast interview and sharing her world-class talent ever since. She is a kind and genuine person.
🎪 Thanks to Nick Perry and Amanda Thornton from Vertical Axis. There are few people I have met who work and train as hard, and it shows. It's been so much fun watching you.
✨️ As someone who feels always out of step with the rest of the world, each of them has shown me that unique, quirky, and artistic, are positive assets to embrace rather than secrets to hide.
🎭 So as we all pack our glitter, sequins, tails, horns, and assorted props, I hope there will be lots of people coming to the festival to share in what we have put together at the International Mermaid Museum.
💍 Biggest thanks always to my partner in everything, Blain Roberts, whose underwater photography inspired the idea of "teaching ocean ecology from seashore to sea floor immersed in mermaid mythology, uniting world oceanic cultures." You brought me back to Westport and together we made a difference.
👑 And last but not least, thanks to the amazing volunteer board of directors who empowered the idea from the start. It would not have worked without you and your generous contributions of time, treasure and talent: Karyl Vasereno , Debbie Coffey Harris, Debbie Simpson, Jill Jacobs, Dodie Brogan, Deb Blake, Brook M Priest, Jane Hewitt, Debbie Hansen, Dani Bacon, Carrie Roberts, Laurie Bowman, Jamie Walsh and Vickie Jones Raines. As they say !
❤️ I'd love to have you follow my travel and lifestyle pages at Kim Roberts and NW Bucket List. It's been a mer-mazing adventure to this point and more to follow!
🙏 Special thanks to Grays Harbor Tourism for their support in producing the festival from 11am to 4pm every Saturday and Sunday from March 7-29.
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