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Mountain Merfolk

Name: Mountain Merfolk
Address: Waynesville, Waynesville, NC, 28786, US
Telephone: (828) 283-0173
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Welcome Merfolk of the Mountain Area! Mountain Merfolk welcomes merfolk enthusiasts of all ages to swim together in playful harmony.

08/26/2024

Mountain Merfolk swim practice today with Merman MalaKoi and Mermaid Kisalynn. Join us! All fishes are welcome.

08/12/2024

Big shout out to my newest top fan!
💎 Kelly Denise

Thaks so much for your continued support. Here's a pic of you and me (and your friend) from the Boho Hippy Festival last year in 2023.

08/12/2024

Mountain Merfolk swim today at Haywood Regional Fitness Center pool. 🧜🏻‍♀️🧜 🧜🏼‍♂️ 🧜🏻‍♀️
We trained some freediving safety and rescue techniques, did a few synchronized tricks, practiced our handstands, and swam a 1/2 mi (16 laps round trip / 32 lengths)... and took a few selfies. I will post underwater footage later. Many thanks to everyone who showed up to train and share your passion for this beautiful athletic artform. Definitely the highlight of this week!

08/06/2024

My sister Simone Cooper snapped this photo of me at the Portlandia Mermaid Parade and Festival. Fan veils are a natural extension of this Mountain Merfolk mermaid. 🧜🏻‍♀️ I had fun dancing through the 1.5 mi parade, mostly to the music in my mind and rhythm of my heart.

08/04/2024

Mermaid Fauna, Merman MalaKoi, and Mertender Nate of Mountain Merfolk had a fintastic swim with the Oregon Mers on Thursday at Dougan Falls, WA. We love meeting up with merpods where ever we travel and we're really enjoying the friendships we've made with the Oregon Mers over the past couple of summers. This was a lovely fresh water swim with plenty of salmon to look at in the water. The frigid water was quite refreshing on a 98°F day! Looking forward to more adventures next year.

07/28/2024

Mermazing Day at Portlandia Mermaid Parade and Festival! So many enchanting creatures.
🧜🏻‍♀️ Mermaid Fauna and Merman Malakoi 🧜🏼‍♂️ representing for Mountain Merfolk of NC.

07/28/2024

Portlandia Mermaid Parade and Festival

07/14/2024

Mermaid Fauna of Mountain Merfolk at Huntington Beach State Park, SC at sunrise. 🌅

06/09/2024

Mermaid Primrose of Mountain Merfolk reading to children at the Mermaid Meet & Greet with the Haywood County Support Group of ASNC at their Summer Kick-Off Picnic 2024!

Special thanks to the children and families who gave us permission to share these precious moments through this photo.

06/07/2024

Meet a Mermaid! Sat. June 8th 11:30am-1pm at the Summer Kick-Off Picnic at the Splash Pad in Sorrells Park, Canton, NC, with the Haywood County Support Group of ASNC (Autism Society of NC).

Join us for a Meet & Greet and photo selfies with Mermaid Primrose and her Mertender Franceska of Mountain Merfolk. 🧜🏻‍♀️

06/06/2024

Mermaid Primrose and Pirate Franceska of Mountain Merfolk will be offering a Mermaid Meet & Greet this Saturday June 8th 11:30am-1pm at the Sorrells Park Splash Pad in Canton, NC.

This Summer Kick Off Picnic is brought to you by the Haywood County Support Group of ASNC.

Mountain Merfolk loves and supports our neurodiverse community and we look forward to seeing familiar and new faces this weekend.

See details of the event below!
https://facebook.com/events/s/summer-kick-off-picnic/721769203257932/

06/03/2024

The 17th Annual Mermaid Parade & Festival in Marshall, NC was another fun, magical success! The parade was packed with creative costuming, puppetry, and enthusiasm.

I am especially pleased with how fintastic our float turned out to be. And I am so thankful to our pod for collaborating and helping to bring everything together in just 3 hours time. 🙌 Way to go, Mountain Merfolk! 🧜🏻‍♀️ 🧜🏼‍♂️ We made quite the splash with 8 dazzling merfolk on board, two inklings, a pirate, and a sailor!

It was especially touching to hear the kids and families in the audience saying "Look at all the real mermaids! And wow! A merman!" I hope everyone had a mermazing experience. I am still floating on all the good vibes and happy memories made with you shellrific seasters and merfriends.

Special thanks to my amazing husband and mertender, Nate Novgrod, for driving our ship and helping to produce this event. I wouldn't want to do it without you, as you are so fast and efficient with your help. You seem to anticipate my needs before I even realize them and maintain patience and a positive attitude even when things are hectic. And special thanks to Nikki Plaia Beckert for sharing your truck and driving 3 hrs to join in the parade with us! We couldn't have done it without you!

05/27/2024

Mermaid Fauna of Mountain Merfolk with her new niece in Florida!

05/23/2024

Who has a truck that might also be interested in joining me and Mountain Merfolk for the 17th Annual Mermaid Parade & Festival in Marshall, NC on Sat. 6/1? It's a day long event with fun festivities for the whole family, which culminate with a parade at 6pm.

You and your family would be invited to dress as a mermaid 🧜🏻‍♀️ or a ☠️ pirate or a sailor ⚓️ or a sea creature 🐙 and ride with us, but dressing up is NOT required. We really just need a truck and a driver. Mermaids with tails can not walk in the parade, so we require a ride.

We really need a gas or electric truck to pull a trailer. We have a diesel truck, but it is too loud and stinky for people to ride in a trailer / float behind it.

I rent the trailer, but will need someone to pick it up on the day of or before the parade and show up in downtown Marshall early enough in the day for the Mermaids to decorate it before the parade. This year, we'd love to be able to decorate more than last time.

If you provide the truck and would like to also advertise your business, you are welcome to put a banner with your logo on the side of your truck. We have a couple of banners for the trailer.

Anybody interested in joining us with your young people / families?

Here some pics of Mermaid Fauna and some from the last Marshall Mermaid Parade that Mountain Merfolk participated in back in 2022.

Thanks & Love from
Mermaid Fauna
with Mountain Merfolk

05/05/2024

I missed swimming with my seaters today, but I got a really good 2hr swim in at Haywood Regional Fitness Center today. Worked on slowing down and exaggerating my dolphin as well as a few tricks in the deep end, sideways swimming, and my butterfly backstroke (not sure if that is the technical word, but best I can use to describe that one).

Hoping to swim with Mountain Merfolk at the lake on Mother's Day May 12, 2pm-5pm. 🧜🏻‍♀️ 🧜🏼‍♂️

04/09/2024

Mermaid Fauna's son, Merman MalaKoi, got his first Mertailor fins for his 20th birthday, thanks to Mertailor Mermaid Tails By Eric Ducharme! He's feeling FINTASTIC with his electric FantaSea Kicks! Orange is one of his favorite colors. These are so Koi fish. He loves them. 🧜🏼‍♂️

03/29/2024

Happy International Merfolk Day!
From Mountain Merfolk 🧜🏼‍♂️ 🧜🏻‍♀️

02/27/2024

Mermaid Fauna of Mountain Merfolk made many new friends at the 2023 Summer Kick-Off Picnic. Precious moments that will last a lifetime. 🧜🏻‍♀️

Thanks to Haywood County Support Group of ASNC for inviting us and hosting us at this wonderful event. ✨️ We hope there will be many more opportunities to work together.

Mermaid Fauna of Mountain Merfolk offers Mermaid Meet & Greets for events and parties on dry land at the rate of $250 per session.
This generally consists of individual mermaid encounters and selfies, as well as story times. There is an option to have a mountain waterfall background and your choice of dragon or peacock inflatable for sitting and posing on. Mermaid Fauna always comes equipped with stickers of merfolk and oceanic friends to share.

If you have interest in a mermaid appearance or Meet & Greet that includes time in the water, please reach out. These rates vary per the request.

To book Mermaid Fauna for your next event email [email protected]

Photos by Jesse Roberts of
JLRoberts Photography

*All models have generously provided verbal agreement and written release for their photos to be used for advertising purposes... and to spread Mermaid magic.

02/26/2024

Mountain Merfolk Sunday Swim was a fun success on Feb. 25th, 2024! Thanks to all who participated. We have been working on our water short form choreographies and I am especially eager to see the videography from this one. 🧜🏻‍♀️ 🧜🏼‍♂️ 🧜

02/25/2024

Fins up! Today is our Mountain Merfolk Sunday Swim at Haywood Regional Fitness Center in Waynesville, NC from 1pm-4pm 2/25/24. Join us if you can!

It's free for members of the Fitness Center or $10 for non-members. Just sign in / pay at the front desk and find us in the pool.

Our Sunday Swims are an opportunity for all merfolk to come together and practice techniques in the art of mermaiding and monofin swimming, to learn and share new tricks and safety skills, and to make new seasters and finfolk and celebrate everything mer!

We welcome everyone to swim with our pod. However, this meet-up is for proficient swimmers only. Ages 18 & Up only. Anyone Under 18yo who fits the following criteria is welcome to attend WITH a swimming adult.

Anyone can learn to swim with a monofin (and we are happy to teach them) as long as:
1) they can swim across the pool and back, without touching the bottom, using any style(s)
2) float on their back in the water for 3min
3) hold their breath underwater for at least 7 seconds

This Sunday Swim is brought to you by Mermaid Fauna, a NAUI Certified, professional mermaid with Mountain Merfolk. 🧜🏻‍♀️ 🧜🏼‍♂️

02/05/2024

Mountain Merfolk swim today was especially exciting with the young mermen wearing their fabric tail skins for the first time ever over their monofins. What a pleasure to have Kayla Brett joining us again with her new majestic Finfolk "Song of the Sea" tail. It was beautiful to see everyone swimming together and working on new skills. Also, we attracted the interest of a fellow swimmer while we were there and she joined in to learn some skills, so that was fun.
I do hope to get some video footage edited soon. Stay tuned, my fishes.
🐟 🧜🏼‍♂️ 🧜 🐠

12/10/2023

Sunday Swim with Mountain Merfolk December 10th 1pm-4pm
Haywood Regional Fitness Center Pool.
Free for Fitness Center Members,
$10 Day Pass for Non-Members

12/02/2023

Dec. Sunday Swims with Mountain Merfolk at Haywood Regional Fitness Center.
12/3, 3pm-5pm & 12/10, 2pm-5pm
Come Swim with Us!
Contact Mermaid Fauna at [email protected]

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Waynesville, NC
28786

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Portlandia Mermaid Parade and Festival <3 🧜🏻‍♀️ Mermaid Fauna and Merman MalaKoi🧜🏼‍♂️ representing for Mountain Merfolk of NC.

Mountain Merfolk at the 17th Annual Mermaid Parade in Marshall, NC.

I missed swimming with my seaters today, but I got a really good 2hr swim in at Haywood Regional Fitness Center today. Worked on slowing down and exaggerating my dolphin as well as a few tricks in the deep end, sideways swimming, and my butterfly backstroke (not sure if that is the technical word, but best I can use to describe that one). Hoping to swim with Mountain Merfolk at the lake on Mother's Day May 12, 2pm-5pm. 🧜🏻‍♀️ 🧜🏼‍♂️

#mountainmerfolk #mermaidfauna #waynesvillemermaid #ashevillemermaid

Hey Mountain Merfolk Pod, We're swimming at Lake Logan, NC today from 2pm-4pm or until we're done. Purchase a Level 1 Day Pass online for our swimming purposes and pick up your wristband at the welcome center. Bring the family, if you like. They have kayaks and canoes and fishing is allowed with the purchase of a Level 2 or 3 pass (I believe). See details at the link below. https://www.lakelogan.org/pass-reservations/ Photo: Mermaid Fauna of Mountain Merfolk at South Holston Lake, TN. 2023 Photography by Nate Novgrod