Weeki Wachee Mermaids: Thirty Years of Underwater Photography

by Bonnie Georgiadis and Lu Vickers

By the late 1940s, long before Disney dreamed of building a magic kingdom in central Florida, the state had more botanical gardens, jungles, monkeys, parrots, and glass-bottomed boats than a tourist could shake a camera at. But only one place had banana-eating mermaids, and that was Weeki Wachee. Located about forty-five miles north of Tampa, and still in existence today, Weeki Wachee has been featured in major motion pictures and visited by astronauts,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813044308
• ISBN13: 9780813044309
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.3" x 10.1"