We want to start this blog by thanking everyone who has been sending in comments. We love to receive them and it feels like our friends and family are not far away. We also know many of you are keen followers of the comments from others - it all embellishes the story of our journey (or non-journey as it is at the moment). We have had ideas submitted for new inter-boat games and ways to entertain ourselves. Still trying to work out how to play Sex, Snog or Marry on a boat with two married couples. Will let you know how that goes. Please keep them coming.

We were still giggling this morning at the memories of last night’s What’sApp inter-boat Countdown. Doug, who is in our What’sApp group, decided to set off for French Polynesia a week ago. We are wondering what he will do on arrival with thousands of messages from the group, all on playing inter-boat games. We wondered about removing him from the group, but we think he will need something to occupy himself when he gets to French Polynesia and finds the whole place ‘Fermé’! Ah – brings back memories of crossing mainland France through the canals, when the whole place was also ‘Fermé’.

No progress on the swimming front today, but we will keep you posted. We have a lovely agent in town who is working on this for us and hopefully she will get a result soon. We are obviously very much at the beck and call of the authorities here, so we don’t want to fall on the wrong side of this.

Today’s wildlife moment: two rays thrashing about in the water beside the boat. We gathered on the side deck to see what was happening, then realised they were mating, so crept away to give them their privacy.

We took a trip ashore and into the shop today, decked out in our home-made masks and rubber gloves. It gets increasingly strict; this time we were not allowed to keep the dinghy on the dock, so G sat off in Guppy whilst Dave and Lesley joined queues at separate shops to stock up with groceries, all standing 2m apart under the supervision of the authorities. So whilst it’s all a bit restrictive, the good news is that the Ecuadorian government are taking this really seriously and are being rigorous in their enforcement of lockdown and curfew for everyone’s safety. Let’s hear it for Ecuador!

Last night’s sourdough pizza (a la Dave) was amazing!

We are currently waiting for someone to arrive with fresh fish for tonight’s supper. And a plan has been hatched for Key Lime Cheesecake with yesterday’s lime surplus – sounding good. Will let you know.