Back to Ibiza - the Americans have landed.
Moxie - Beck Family Adventure
Mike, Denise, Asia and Aranya Beck
Wed 26 Oct 2011 20:26
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We had to pop back to Ibiza as our good friends from
Wimbledon the Conroy family came to stay for a few days. 60 mile trips
like this used to be daunting, I guess we are growing used to life on the
water. On route we saw a swordfish leaping 200 metres away from Moxie but
he failed to find our lure.
We stopped in Binirras for a few days, did a bit more
rock jumping and I managed to swim smack into a jelly fish. Don't worry
too much about the jellyfish I'd been explaining to the kids, it is a bit like a
static electric shock that is all. Hmm, whilst that is (reasonably) true
when you brush against a single tentacle, what this felt like was swimming into
an electric fence, it really REALLY !!*%!!!ing hurt a lot and left a coke can
size weeping blister on my shoulder that (almost 2 months later now) still
shows a scar. I figure that I must have swum fully into it and got the
whole dose.
 Battle scars
Young Michael was the star of the show, he spent every
waking minute fishing. Indeed Michael now holds the unofficial world
record heaviest fish ever caught using cheese for bait. He seconded this
10 minutes out of San Antonio harbour with a shout of dolphins. Now at
that stage we had seen just 2 dolphins since leaving Gibraltar and I was let's
say a little skeptical of the claim and quite some minutes later we had not
validated the claim. BUT -No sooner than I said 'Well if Michael says he
saw a dolphin, then there was a dolphin' - we actually saw one. That was
my Lion, witch, wardrobe Lucy moment.
 Ibiza style, recon it will catch on?
We introduced Caroline to rock jumping which she took to
with great courage and enthusiasm, it's a shame that Paul had to look after
Michael (dig). Asia upped the odds and soon ran out of anything higher to
launch from, we called it stage 5. Then later I towed the girls
around behind the dingy on the bodyboards and managed to introduce Caroline to a
jellyfish, luckily she is made of stronger stuff than I am and
comparatively shrugged it off.
 Quality father/son time
 bed time
 dinner time.
 family time
 Kids time, there was some bug going around that meant
that at any time and in every photo at least one child had a tounge out.
Here's a rare shot without such symptoms.
It was fantastic to have some familiar company on the
boat for a few days and was sad to see them go.
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