Maria was feeling much better this morning after a good night sleep but the same couldn't be said for David - he couldn't even hold water down for long. So David stayed in bed whilst Maria went off for breakfast.

During breakfast, the gardener came up to say that there were dolphins out in the bay. Maria went rushing down to the room to get the camera and tell David but even dolphins weren't going to get him out of bed today. By the time everyone was at the water's edge, the dolphins were already heading further out in the bay so Erika took the girls on the boat for a closer look. The boat quickly found the dolphins again who were perhaps too pre-occupied with their mating rituals to care about being followed by a boat of onlookers.

Back in the house for the second half of breakfast, Maria decided to join the other two on a day excursion to the Bat Cave. It did only give her a few minutes to grab some gear and go. The boat took them over to the neighbouring island, Isla Bastimento, where another boat with a local guide was waiting. The trip to the Bat Cave included a tour through the mangroves en-route which turned out to be very good for animal spotting. They saw 4 sloths, of which 2 were moving around, 2 caimans, fresh water turtle, spiders, crabs and birds.

On the island, walk to the cave went through a really muddy track where there were some really tiny orange frogs to be observed. After walking through the beginning of the cave with bats, the tour became more adventurous and it entered areas that were underwater. The depth of the water varied between ankle deep to times where everyone had to swim. Eventually, the route led to a very narrow hole which took you through to a second underground lake which had a small waterfall. On the way back out, much to Maria's horror, everyone had to jump into the water from a 2 metre ledge but she did it.

Lunch and an afternoon of free time was at Red Frog Beach. The beach and surrounding area was more developed than anyone would have thought - it even had a marina, proper gravel road and people driving around in golf carts. The beach was not good for swimming at this time of the year due to high waves, but it was nice enough for a bit of relaxation on the sand with a book.

On the return trip, there were some Capuchin monkeys in the trees and some dolphins came very close to the boat - so, all in all, a very good day for animal spotting.

David was still not too well even though he had been sleeping all day so some fresh coconut water and toast was arranged for his room service dinner.Maria was not having 'room service' and joined the others plus a newly arrived couple from Germany for a nice fish dinner on the deck.

Having missed a day through sickness, we asked to extend our stay but it might be fully booked, we'll see...