It is, indeed, a dark day for Aussie Mers.

The local pools know me as a mermaid, and they've all been pretty cool about it, unfortunately they're all council owned pools, so I am in high risk of having my tail banned should they catch wind of this and get scared. With my new tail due next year I'm worried I'm not going to have a winter place to swim. There is one that's actually closest to me, but it's like $7 to swim because it's a gym's pool but maybe they won't be affected by the council since it's privately owned... fins crossed.