No, we’re not on a countdown to departure. Following on from last week’s successful pub quiz night, one of the other boats hosted a version of the popular TV show ‘Countdown’, using a WhatsApp group to communicate between the boats. Broadly, the hosts announced nine random letters; we all had two minutes to make as many words as possible out of them; and then we had to report in with a) the longest word found and b) the total number of words found. Our vocabularies have been broadened, with words including koan and preknob. Lots of banter, lots of fun and the winner gets to host next week’s entertainment. We came a very creditable second place (phew), after some quite intensive practice with Bananagrams.

Quite an eventful day, even apart from that. Dave and Graham saw a frigate bird stealing food from the beak of a fairly pissed-off booby. The day also featured banana muffins, Graham’s bread, home-made hummus and sourdough pizza. Not surprisingly, we need our exercise, but while swimming laps round Barracuda this afternoon, shortly before shark o’clock, we were visited by an official-looking boat who told us that swimming is now banned. Bit of a disaster, but we are appealing. As if to make up for it, not long after this a second boat arrived, with a masked man selling limes – 15 for $1. Somehow we ended up with 30, and a promise to return tomorrow with fresh tuna. Very excited! Yes, food does take centre stage at the moment.