We topped up with fuel in the busy little marina in Formentera, had a quick nosey at a few superyachts, one with a helicopter perched on the bow, and then set course for the 3nM hop to Ibiza.  We found a cosy little cove to anchor near the airport ready to pick up my mum and then launched the tender and attached the outboard.  Seven and a half months sat on the guardrail in pretty corrosive conditions and she started first time!  Cue a huge grin on Chris's face and a few high speed trips round the bay, "just to make sure."  We showered for the first time in a week and thankfully Chris had a shave - the Steptoe look just wasn't doing it for me.

Chris did a quick recce ashore - The Blue Marlin with it's bassy music audible on the boat was apparently full of young rich kids drinking pink champagne (I'm surprised he came back), and there was a restaurant next door but no shops.  No chance of stocking up supplies after our journey.

Mum arrived yesterday and we popped along to a little place further along the bay for a late lunch, taxi-ed to a nearby shop for bare essentials and then had a barbeque at sundown.  Mum much prefers it at anchor than in a marina, although I think she was having second thoughts this morning after a bit of rocking and rolling on a swell last night.

It's her birthday today and she thinks they've all come at once after a refreshing swim off the boat this morning.  Chris and I got the scrubbing brushes out to have a go at DecaDance's bottom, but we let mum off for today.  She's been warned there'll be no such special treatment tomorrow though!

We'll be moving on later to find a nice restaurant for a special meal tonight, a bigger grocery store and WiFi so I can post these blogs and sort out a whole load of chores.  The chart-table laptop's had it so I can't blog via our sat phone so apologies to those of you that look out for the blogs.  Thank you also for your lovely emails on our mailasail account.  I'll get around to replying to everyone individually, but in the mean-time we really do appreciate those of you who keep in touch.  If it's been on our personal email addresses in the last week we haven't picked them up yet.

Happy Birthday Mum! x

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