Mermaid Aurora

05/04/2024

📅 This weekend!!

👀 There is so much to see from……

🐍 Exotic animals
🎯 Archery
🔥 Live cannon fire
🏴‍☠️ Pirates
🫡 Military through the ages
🧜‍♀️ Mermaid

🤩And so much more!!

🐕 The event is dog friendly as well - please be mindful of the live cannon fire as it can be loud

🎟️ Tickets are £10 per adult and children under 16 go FREE…..they can also be bought on the day.

🙌 Check out our No Man’s Land event timeline. There’s loads to see over out two day event. 🙌

Please note that although some demonstrations will be repeated on both days, most of the demonstrations this year will be exclusive to either Saturday or Sunday only. Don’t forget that we will also be joined by over 750 re-enactors portraying most historical periods from Ancient Greek to the Gulf-War as well as vehicles, traders and caterers and much more!!!

We certainly recommend that you will need a full weekend with so much to see and do. Weekend tickets are still on sale so get them quick using the link below before sales end soon.

🎟️Don’t miss out, get your tickets below! 🎟️
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/630358036857

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01/04/2024

🏴‍☠️ This weekend, I will be with the Conwy Pirates for No Mans Land at Bodrhyddan Hall!

👀 There’s lots to do……

🐍 exotic animals
🎯 Archery
🔥 Cannon fire
🍬 Vintage sweet stall
💣Military through the ages and more!!

🎟️ Tickets are £10 and children under 16 go free!!

Join us for an unforgettable Living History Weekend! With music, displays and demonstrations, there is plenty to do for all the family.

28/03/2024

🧜‍♀️ So excited for this event

24/03/2024

🌊 I cannot wait to get back out into the open ocean when it warms up!

🧜‍♀️ It’s definitely my happy place, exploring a world below the waves!

❤️

13/03/2024

🧜‍♀️ Meet the Mermaids day was a fun-tastic success on Saturday with Dwr Tails Mer-pod

🦭 A total of £395 was raised for NWSRO - North Wales Seal Research Organisation!!

🧜‍♀️ Thank you to everyone that joined us in the pool, judging our races…….of course I won each time…….and having a wonderful time!

11/03/2024

National Waterways Museum hosting some amazing events this year!!

🏴‍☠️ What could be better than pirates battling it out and cannon fire?

🧜‍♀️ Well…….mermaids swimming ashore of course!

📅 18th & 19th May!!

☠️ Not an event to be missed!

04/03/2024

📕 Little bit of a back story…..

🧜‍♀️ I took my mermaid name inspiration from the stunning Aurora Borealis.

🌟 Watching it dance across the sky is just so magical and I feel the same way when swimming in the ocean.

♥️ Last night, the Northern Lights put on a stunning display and I was so excited to be able to capture the moment.

01/03/2024

🎉 How exciting!!

💃 Here is your chance to dance the night away with The Old Time Sailors

🎶 An amazing atmosphere and friendly crew singing a range of shanties that you’re bound to know!

📅 17th May at the historic docks in Ellesmere Port!

👀 Check out National Waterways Museum post for the link to tickets!

🍻A night not to be missed!!

⚓ Join us for an unforgettable night of song and dance when the Old Time Sailors perform in the grounds of our historic dock on 17 May 🎷
🎫 Tickets are selling fast ...but still available from the museum website's 'Events' page 👉🏽

https://canalrivertrust.digitickets.co.uk/event-tickets/56076?branches.branchID=2917

🦜Early bird tickets now sold out

01/03/2024

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Dydd Gwyl Dewi Hapus! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Happy St David’s Day 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

24/02/2024

🏴‍☠️ Some of the amazing props and games at Conwy Pirate Festival!!

😮 Make sure you come along 8th & 9th June on Conwy quay!

☠️ You’ll find pirates wandering…..

🧜‍♀️ …..and may spy a mermaid or two!

20/02/2024

❄️ The cold months tend to be quite quiet on the Mermaiding front

😊 But……the good news is that events are starting to come in!!

🏴‍☠️ First up is No Mans Land at Bodrhyddan Hall with Conwy pirates

📅 April 6th and 7th!

🎟️ Tickets and information can be found in the shared post 🙂

Join us for an unforgettable Living History Weekend! With music, displays and demonstrations, there is plenty to do for all the family.

16/02/2024

🧜‍♀️ So TRUE!!!

So true, or a Pirate!🏴‍☠️

29/01/2024

🚤 Im so excited to say I will be swimming ashore on the 18th and 19th May to the National Waterways Museum for their Mutiny at the Port!!

🏴‍☠️ I’ve heard some pesky pirates from Conwy may be there too!!

🪙 Take part in a treasure hunt!

🪢 Test your strength in a tug - of- war!

💥 Cover your ears as cannon fire rings out…….but it’s super exciting to watch…..I promise!!

⚔️ Witness the pirates battling it out!

🧜‍♀️ And I will be there to meet the two leggers with some special treasure of my own…..shhh or the pirates may want it back!

16/01/2024

🧜‍♀️ The time I got trapped in a tank at a comic con……

😱 Some strange two leggers wandering
around that’s for sure!!

13/01/2024

🏴‍☠️ So looking forward to this years Conwy Pirate Festival!!

📅 8th & 9th June

🏰 Set on the beautiful Conwy quay and the stunning Conwy Castle as the back drop!

🎳 Pirate games, cannon fire, Pesky pirates running around, gun battles and stalls……all in a free event!

🎉 Add in The Old Time Sailors…..what more could you ask for?!

🧜‍♀️ Mermaids of course!!

09/01/2024

🏴‍☠️ Mutiny at the port!!

📅 A date for your diary…..18th & 19th May!

🧜‍♀️ I’ll be swimming ashore to be at this event with Conwy Pirates!

08/01/2024

🧜‍♀️ Not only can I be seen in the North Wales seas……sometimes I can be spotted in the rivers!

🚤 This time I made my way to Northwich to help with their annual river festival!

🧍‍♀️ Meeting two leggers and creating smiles

🏁 They hold a boat race between different, local companies which is so fun to watch

🦆 Then towards the end they release hundreds of rubber ducks into the river for a race…….dont worry, they are gathered together at the end!

📰 I even made it into their local newspaper!

👨 I always have my wrangler with me…….how else does a mermaid get around on shore 😉

05/01/2024

🚤 Helping raise some much needed funds for RNLI Llandudno Lifeboat

🧜‍♀️ Mermaid Tyler and I joined Conwy Pirates in Llandudno for the day meeting lots of two leggers and splashing around in the waves!

🌊 The RNLI do amazing work rescuing people and even animals every day at sea.

31/12/2023

🌊 Waving goodbye to 2023

🧜‍♀️ And swimming into 2024, looking forward to all the adventures the tides bring my way.

🎉 Wishing you all a wonderful New Year

29/12/2023

🧜‍♀️ Last meet up of the year for Dwr Tails Merpod.

🎉 Can’t wait for 2024 and all the adventures waiting for me!

🏴‍☠️ Joining forces with Conwy Pirate Festival is my highlight!

☠️ Give the page a follow for all information and support this amazing event!

29/12/2023

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 The North Wales waters may be my home…..

🧜‍♀️ But I can sometimes be spotted washing up on the Cornish beaches with the wonderful The Cornish Merpod.

🏖️ It was lovely to join my fellow mermaids im 2022 on the shores of Newquay Harbour meeting the two leggers

🪙 And helping to raise money for their chosen charity.

25/12/2023

🎄 Wishing you all a wonderful Christmas!

🎉 And a fantastic 2024!!

🧜‍♀️ From Mermaid Aurora xx

20/12/2023

🏴‍☠️ More from Conwy pirate festival this year

🧜‍♀️ One of my mermaid happy places!

13/12/2023

🏖️ I always feel at home by the sea.

🧜‍♀️ Loving my mermaid life!!

12/12/2023

🧜‍♀️ I had the pleasure of working through August at Conwy Castle portraying the Conwy Mermaid.

🏰 The bard and monks left the castle and walked around Conwy calling those to come here the legend of a mermaid washed up during a storm and what happened to her.

📖 There are several old yarns telling of mermaids swimming along the coast of Wales, however the story of the half human half fish siren in Conwy is a spine-tingling tale.

🎣 If legend is to be believed, a group of fisherman were fishing in the Conwy estuary when a creature became caught up in their nets.

🚤 As they hauled their prize catch aboard their boat they realised it was a mermaid and decided to parade her through the streets of the town

🧜‍♀️ She is said to have begged to be released back into the water while gasping for air.

🏰 The mermaid began to suffocate and suffered an agonising death but in her final breaths she cursed the town of Conwy vowing it would suffer war, disease and disasters forever more.

🔥 Many believe the mermaid’s curse struck in 1966 when Conwy Civic Hall was engulfed in flames and destroyed.

😱 Locals claim to have heard the mermaid’s ghostly laughter in the air as the fire ravaged the building.

🏚️What remained of the hall was rebuilt following the fire with a 240-seat studio theatre including in the reconstruction.

🚫However, the building was closed by Conwy County Council in 2014 and attempts to sell the building have been fruitless.