Last night Guppy made very good progress. I have had wind so I travelled 140 nautical miles or so since I left [259 kilometres or 161 land miles]. Yesterday evening, I was accompanied for almost two hours by a school of about 30 dolphins. They played along with the boat, looked up pryingly and then dived away. Today I have not yet seen any dolphins, and unfortunately it is the same with the wind. The good wind has disappeared again, and Guppy and I are now slowly bobbing towards the Galápagos Islands and the equator! I think I will be sailing across it in about five days into this trip!

Laura