Using a skewer on this plant is not the approach I would take during the growing season. It wants to stay as wet as it can in big, chunky bark. Looking at the initial photos, whoever cared for it before you didn't water it nearly enough. I would not let a plant in this group of orchids get even near dry if I could help it.
In large, chunky bark like that, even in your high humidity, I would water this plant every day, with an occasional lapse to every second day without kicking myself. If I let it go to three days without water I would probably administer discipline to myself. Maybe a spray bottle, and maybe the cattle prod.
New growths developing on a dehydrated Gongora may be much smaller than usual, and flower spikes or growths may dry up and die. Why risk it when there is no danger in watering a plant in large-chunk bark every day?
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