| Twiggy the Water Skiing Squirrel | June 12-14 |
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 Twiggy at Nashville Shores
Join us Friday, June 12 through Sunday, June 14 to meet this amazing performer and learn about Boating, Water, and Beach Safety. Performance times on Friday and Saturday are 11:00 am, 1:30 pm, and 4:00 pm. Sunday times are 12:00 pm, 1:30 pm and 4:00 pm. Visit www.twiggyskis.com to see Twiggy in action.
Twiggy's Story
In 1978 a baby squirrel was rescued after being blown from her nest during a hurricane and taken in by Chuck and Lou Ann Best. The little squirrel adapted very well to her new home. She went everywhere with her new family; greeting all of the kids at their roller skating rink and even went on their camping and water-skiing excursions. Sometimes she would even take a dip into the water to get cooled off on a hot day.
Later, Chuck bought his daughter, Lalainia, a remote controlled boat for her birthday. Their friends started teasing him saying that he bought it for himself, since he played with it all the time. Defending himself, he joked, “I have to learn to drive the boat so I can teach my squirrel to water-ski." Chuck and Lou Ann proceeded to do just that, teach their squirrel to ski, while on their river outings.
It wasn't long before the local newspaper, The Sanford Herald, heard about the little aquatic squirrel and published the first newspaper story about her in May of 1979. The Orlando Sentinel followed, and then it hit the UPI circuit. Many fans sent clippings to the Best's from all over the world. Chuck and Lou Ann felt that their squirrel needed a stage name and decided to name her "Twiggy" since she chewed the leaves off all of Lou Ann's house plants leaving nothing but twigs.
Twiggy has been performing for twenty-seven years traveling all across the US, Canada, Bermuda, Paris, France and Germany. She has appeared in numerous books, magazines, newspapers, and on television shows all over the world. Some of Twiggy's credits include "Good Morning America", "The Rosie O'Donnell Show", "The Wayne Brady Show", " Late Night with David Letterman". She has been noted in school books, the Encyclopedia Britannica, on covers of magazines, on many television game shows and even had her picture on Interstate billboards promoting some of her shows. Twiggy can even be seen on the big screen in two 2004 productions, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story and Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgandy.
Twiggy always puts safety first. She never goes on the water without her little squirrel-sized lifejacket and she is always sharing the importance of water safety to all of her adoring fans.
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