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March, 2016
PLACENCIA Breeze A Placencia BTIA Publication
Celebrating Easter Placencia Style Starting off the fun on Thursday, March 24th is the Children’s Easter Egg Hunt on the beach beside Tipsy Tuna at 3pm. Tracy West-Eiley and Kathy Anglin Wade have been organizing this colourful event for many years.
Good Friday is the time for a trip to the cayes or a picnic on the beach with family and friends. Liquor Licencing laws prohibit alcohol sales that day. The Placencia Municipal Pier is another great area to swim or do some boat watching. If it’s water activities you want, check out Tipsy Tuna’s new Beach ‘N Rentals…rent a paddle board, kayak, mask and snorkel plus or
some of their other water toys.
Easter heats up Good Friday at midnight with some amazing DJs at Street Feet Lounge and Nightclub. Saturday and Sunday it’s Easter Fest on the beach starting at 10am at the Internet Beach between Tipsy and Cozy Corner with games, contests and music both days and nights. Tipsy Tuna has a free concert by Australia Band Conkarah and Barefoot will keep the action going with music and stiff drinks. Placencia Village welcomes everyone to have fun but please be respectful of this beautiful area by picking up your garbage…keep it green and keep it clean.
Unusual Sighting of Humpback Whale
Kath Anglin
By Dr. Annelise Hagan
it – hopefully it had made its way On the morning of 24th February back out to deeper waters. there was a definite buzz around Why the whale had come to our Placencia. The excitement was shallow coastal waters is unknown; justified – a 30+ft long humpback possibly due to illness or injury whale had been sighted just a few although there was no obvious miles offshore. This is likely to be external evidence of this. Maybe it the first ever documentation of such simply got disorientated and lost. It a whale in Belize’s waters. Initial seems probable that this is the same reports came from the Harvest Caye humpback whale that was reported area but over the next day and a to be hanging around for an extended half, the whale moved to the outer period of time in a shallow area off st nd channel of Big Creek port and was the coast of Livingston, Guatemala, last seen behind Placencia Caye. A a couple of weeks ago. The Placencia Sailing Club is proud to host the Placencia Regatta on few hours later, no one could find May 21st and 22nd. Come and support our young sailors.
Placencia Regatta May 21 and 22