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This week, your hosts Cathy Salustri and Jon Kile talk to John Athanason, who spent almost two decades doing marketing for the world's most famous mermaids – the Weeki Wachee mermaids! Last year, he started working with Florida's Adventure Coast Visitors Bureau, and he joins the podcast ready to talk about the best places along Florida's Adventure Coast (think Brooksville and Weeki Wachee) – including some you've probably never hear of, much less visited.

Links we mentioned:

Tourism website

Chinsegut

Downtown Brooksville

Withlacoochee State Forest

Richloam General Store

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