Placencia

This weekend, we went to the beach town of Placencia. It was like a post card. Most of our time was spent lounging in the sun with a book during the day, and enjoying live music at the nearby bar in the evening.

There are five in our group with SCUBA certification, and we were all hoping to get to go diving at least one day this weekend. After the full moon, the schools of snapper come closer in to shore, and following the snapper are enormous whale sharks. This would have been an excellent time to go, not to mention that they collect around Glover's Reef, one of the prime places to see healthy corals, spotted rays, sea turtles, etc. Much to our disappointment, the weekend was incredibly windy, the sea too rough to go out, and the visibility likely to be poor. You win some; you lose some. It meant we got to spend more time relaxing on the sandy beach. 

One of the local girls caught a squirrel and let us hold it. . . I was thinking about my rabies vaccine the whole time.