Turning six is soooo exciting! Already before breakfast, Joshua was sitting in the saloon, ready to party with an eye patch, a pirate saber and a hat, starring at the presents on the table. Carefully, he moved them to his berth. Yesterday, we have been crafting to whole day and created our pirate accessories. Now, our little captain was looking great, jittery though. Even his usually huge appetite was missing for breakfast, he barely touched the raisins bread. Afterwards he was unstoppable. The treasure had to be opened.

Soon, all presents have been unpacked and we noticed that we forgot to download the audio files for the new tiptoi game. Now our little pirate could not even play with his novel toys. But he was six after all and bravely crafted instead. - Perhaps we could consider asking UKMTO for the files, they could drop them with one of their ships? In any case, there is no internet and what could be more important as a happy children‘s laugh?

Eventually, Joshua noticed the yellow note with a skull on it. It said „The treasure is located on a dark spot“ and also had a little riddle guiding to the next note. After 5 further notes and riddles, two of which actually have been solved by Pirate Joni Shortleg, and a voyager through Moyas deck and belly, the golden treasure was found. The small pirate gang was completely over the moon and Joni signed in for a treasure hunt for his next birthday. Afterwards, Emil and the detectives and Pettersson and Findus came visiting. Finally, a buccaneer with red and white striped sails was delivering the international birthday cake. It was baked with flour from Sri Lanka, eggs from the Maldives, sugar from Panama, cocoa from columbia, cocos oil from Papua New Guinea, milk from Indonesia and peaches from Curacao.

We are sailing too and ultimately make good progress. Tonight, the first time since we started our passage in the maldives, the wind wasn’t close to dying. So far the nights have been tough, whereas we at least had some winds during the days. Tonight that wasn’t the case. Just for once, the glance on the estimated time of arrival wasn’t resulting in a transient depression. Slowly, we are approaching Soccotra.