Everyone chose pancakes for breakfast today. It seems that even those traveling for just a couple of weeks are getting sick of eggs every day. We're not sick of eggs, it's more about variety and it's not often the choice doesn't include eggs in one way or another. The pancakes were good too, smothered in a sweet guava sauce, and filling enough for one to be sufficient.

After breakfast we moved our bags to one of the room upstairs. It was much bigger but less private because it was straight off the main deck where everyone ate and lounged around. It was only for one night, allowed us to stay an extra day and we were getting it for a cheap price - so no complaints.

With the help of Erika we sorted out accommodation in Playa Bluff for tomorrow. Playa Bluff is a beach on the main island where turtles still come ashore to lay eggs and hopefully we will get to see that.

We took the Canadian style canoe out for a bit of exercise and hoping to see some dolphins. We paddled around aimlessly for half an hour before David spotted one. It was a good distance off but we headed off in it's direction with the unrealistic hope that it might wait for us. It didn't...it popped up again, only a 'good distance' further away again. With the sun beating down and a realisation that we had no sunscreen on, we retreated back to the base.

The return was timed to perfection from David's point of view, the Netherlands-Spain game was just starting and they had it on TV. While the football was on, Maria went swimming with Erika's kids and had to get life vest to float on so they wouldn't drown her.

After the game, and very good game at that, David and Daniel went for jungle walk. We were told to put shoes and long pants on "because you are really going in the jungle". David was nearly going in jandals but thought better of it after that. The tour started only 500m from where we were staying and David was still a bit sceptical that 'real' jungle could be so close. The walk started up over pastureland at the waters edge but it all changed at the far end of the field. It was like opening a curtain and walking through to the other side, all of a sudden it was completely different. We were now inside this huge cloak of overgrown vegetation with stiflingly hot, humid air. There were toucans, sloths and red frogs, but no monkeys. We could hear the monkeys in the far off distance, just too far to walk to. At one point, when crossing a swamp on a large tree root, Daniel lost his balance and planted his foot deeply in the mud. He quickly pulled his foot back out but the swamp wasn't so keen to give up his shoe. It took five minutes of digging and pulling, whilst kneeling on the tree root, for the shoe to be back in Daniel's possession and on his foot. The lady who owned the property took the boys to see a 3 month old ocelot that they had found. It was too young to be released in the wild but would no doubt outgrow being kept as pet.

Despite being the night of a full moon, it was nowhere to be seen in the sky because of the clouds. That actually had it's upsides because we had been waiting for a very dark night to see the glowing algae in the dock. It was really weird, that water would glow orange when it was agitated or moved. Just at the time we went to the dock, there were a few drops of rain in the air. When the raindrops landed on the water, they burst into a glow giving the impression of a sea of sparkling stars. We also stirred the water with a paddle which made it look like magic wound with it's trail of sparkles behind it.