Racing report
Amazing Race Canada Season 7, Episode 5, "Clamgeddon continues"
Film dates: 2019-05-01 - 2019-05-02
The last pit stop was at Dene First Nation Community Dettah on the Great Slave Lake. Teams are released from in from of the Northern Heritage Center in Yellowknife (this is close to where season 4 started) in the following order:
1. | Aarthy & Thinesh | 08:35 | |
2. | Meaghan & Marie | 08:51 | +0:16 |
3. | Dave & Irina | 09:08 | +0:33 |
4. | Sarah & Sam | 09:19 | +0:46 |
5. | Lauren & Joanne | 09:22 | +0:49 |
6. | Anthony & James | 09:39 | +1:04 |
7. | Trish & Amy | 10:00 | +1:25 |
Route info: Fly to the Nanaimo, BC.
We learn that Sam does a lot of mentorship work for school kids and he wants to win this leg.
At the airport everybody seem to be glad when the non-eliminated teams Trish & Amy turns up, that is everybody but Dave & Irina.
All teams are on the same flight to Vancouver via Edmonton. Once they land in Vancouver they must make their way to the Harbor air terminal in downtown Vancouver where they must sign up to one of four seaplane flights which will land 15 minutes apart in Nanaimo, BC.
There is the usual taxi race and for once Dave & Irina are last.
"
I'm ready to give up, like I don't want to do this anymore", Irina does not like being in the back
Teams end up on the following flights:
Flight #1
Aarthy & Thinesh
Flight #2
Anthony & James, got to the sign up board one second after Aarthy & Thinesh
Trish & Amy
Flight #3
Lauren & Joanne
Sarah & Sam
Flight #4
Dave & Irina
Meaghan & Marie
During the flight we learn that James is a doctor and did his residency on Vancouver island.
Everybody seem to enjoy the flight except Sam who is afraid of heights and Dave & Irina who are stressed because they are not first.
Once teams land they pick up a nice sponsor sports car and drive themselves to Petroglyph provincial park.
Teams arrive to the park in the following order:
1. Aarthy & Thinesh
2. Anthony & James
3. Trish & Amy
?. Sarah & Sam
?. Lauren & Joanne
?. Meaghan & Marie
?. Dave & Irina
Here we find some product placement, this time from the movie Dora and the lost city of gold. They get a video clue from the main star of the film. There is also a backpack and a bunch of stuff. The video clue just tells them that the next clue is in the backpack.
Next to the pack is a bunch of stuff and teams must pack everything in the bag. The items include:
* gloves
* a yo-yo
* a head lamp
* a bunch of carrots
* a whiteboard with 11 lines on it (5+2+4)
* a tooth
* a map
Once the bag is packed they must make their way to Wild Play element parks. Here teams must gear up and get strapped in. One of them will have to bungee jump and the other does a tandem primal swing. Just before they jump they have 60 seconds to memorize the ingredients of the famous Nanaimo bar.
TOP LAYER
Semi-sweet Chocolate
Unsalted Butter
MIDDLE LAYER
Unsalted Butter
Cream
Vanilla Custard Powder
Icing Sugar
BOTTOM LAYER
Unsalted Butter
Sugar
Cocoa
Egg Beaten
Graham Wafer Crumbs
Finely Chopped Almonds
Coconut
At the bottom they must correctly recite the ingredients in each layer to get their next clue. If they fail they have to go again.
"
I don't cook man, I don't know what's in a Nanaimo bar", Aarthy
"
Is there a barf bag included in this?", Anthony
"
Do you want to just triple check that one", Sam wants his harness to be checked again as he is afraid of heights
Once done it seams each team get two Nanaimo bars.
Teams complete this task in the following order:
1(+2) Trish & Amy, on their 1st attempt
2(+0) Anthony & James, on their 1st attempt
3(-2) Aarthy & Thinesh, on their 2nd attempt
4(+?) Sarah & Sam, on their 2nd attempt
5(+?) Dave & Irina, on their 1st attempt
6(+?) Meaghan & Marie, on their 1st attempt
7(+?) Lauren & Joanne, on their 3rd attempt
Route info: Drive yourselves to the Deep bay marine field station and search outside for your next clue.
Reaching the marine station seems to be pretty easy for all teams but Lauren & Joanne. There has been an accident and the police has closed the only access road so they have to wait for a while before they can continue.
At the field station Trish & Amy find their speed bump. They must assemble a 37 piece model skeleton of an Orca whale. The pieces are spread out on the floor. The task is made easier by the fact that they get a drawing of the skeleton and each piece is numbered. A niece detail is that one of the bones they need to use is the tooth they got with their Dora packs. The task does not take too long and only Anthony & James pass them while they are doing it.
The clue at the marine field station is a route info and tells teams to dig for clams on the nearby sea shore. There is a reference board and some samples so teams can correctly identify four different type of shellfish. They must collect:
5 Butter clams
30 Manila Clams
30 Pacific oysters
30 Mahogany clams
Each team gets waders, a basket and two shovels. They all quickly realize that it is a good idea to put on the gloves from the Dora backpack.
As one could guess the Butter clams are harder to find.
"
Oh my god, I'm so sorry people have to listen to him", James about Anthony's singing while he is digging for clams
Dave & Irina have a slightly different approach to this task than the others. Dave is digging and Irina seems to do nothing.
"
I don't like hard work, not for me", Irina
After about 1.5h Dave & Irina decide to take the penalty and leave.
Initially Dave & Irina's decision to take the penalty inspires the other teams to work together to defeat them. But that soon falls apart as tree more teams decide to take the penalty.
After 3+ hours on the task the tide start to come in which makes the task harder. But the two remaining teams stick with it.
"
They just bought us 2 hours", Thinesh as Meaghan & Marie took the penalty
Aarthy & Thinesh talk abut the express pass but decide to not use it.
"
This is actually the challenge from hell", Aarthy
Eventually the last two teams decide to work together. And when Aarthy & Thinesh find their last Butter clam they do not leave bu instead go back and help Anthony & James to find their last ones.
"
Clamageddon continues", James gets the title
The last two teams spends more than 4 hours 37 minutes on this task.
Teams leave this challenge in the following order:
1(+4) Dave & Irina, gave up and took the 2h penalty
2(+5) Lauren & Joanne, gave up and took the 2h penalty
3(+1) Sarah & Sam
4(-3) Trish & Amy, gave up and took the 2h penalty
5(+1) Meaghan & Marie, gave up and took the 2h penalty
6(-3) Aarthy & Thinesh
7(-5) Anthony & James
ROAD BLOCK
Who's the photog on
your team?
Teams must make their way to Horn Lakes caves provincial park. Here they will find a Huawei P30 phone. They must take this phone into one of the caves where they must search for 11 letters hidden in different cracks and crevices. They should then take pictures of them with their phone. Finally they go out and use the board they got at the start of the leg they have to descramble the letters to form three words. All they know is that the words have 5, 2 and 4 letters and spells the location of the pit stop. Once they snap a picture of the correct phrase the Park director will give them their next clue.
The words they should form are: "GOATS ON ROOF".
Dave is the first one there and he quickly finds 10 letters in the cave. He decides to try to solve the puzzle with what he has, but find himself stuck.
"
I hate mixing up letters", Dave
Meanwhile the next two teams turn up and Sarah and Lauren decide to work together.
Dave resorts to some unconventional methods to solve this road block. First he creeps up on Sarah and Lauren to see which letters they have. He asks to work with them but is turned down. He then tries to work with Trish, but she remembers who stole their cab in Yellowknife so she also turns him down. Then Trish gets the answer but she has left her board open so Dave goes there and photographs it before erasing all text to stop other teams from repeating what he just did. Trish spots him and is upset but can not really do anything.
While driving to the spelunking task Anthony thinks it over and starts looking through their Dora backpack. When he finds the carrots James, who has lived in the area, suggests that it perhaps is goats on roof. Once they arrive they tell Aarthy & Thinesh and both teams try this answer before even entering the cave. Since it is correct this turns into a very quick road block for them.
"
They literally just arrive here so I'm confused how they just left", Marie to stunned
1(+3) | Trish* & Amy | (4-3) | |
2(-1) | Dave* & Irina | (4-3) | |
3(-1) | Lauren* & Joanne | (4-3) | |
4(-1) | Sarah* & Sam | (4-3) | |
5(+1) | Aarthy* & Thinesh | (4-3) | |
6(+1) | Anthony* & James | (4-3) | |
7(-2) | Meaghan & Marie* | (3-4) | |
Teams must now drive to the town of Coombs and locate the famous Goats on the roof at the old country market.
While driving Trish tells Amy that Dave stole her answer they are upset and call him cheater. Meanwhile Dave tells Irina and justifies by saying that the others were working together against him. Irina promises to snap at them if they bring it up.
Teams reach the pit stop in the following order:
-. Trish & Amy, have to serve their 2h penalty
1(+3) Sara & Sam win a trip to Manchu Pichu
-. Dave & Irina, 7 minutes after Trish & Amy, have to serve their 2h penalty
-. Lauren & Joanne, 8 minutes after Trish & Amy, have to serve their 2h penalty
2(+3) Aarthy & Thinesh
2(+4) Anthony & James
-. Meaghan & Marie, have to serve their 2h penalty
4(-3) Trish & Amy
5(-3) Dave & Irina
6(-3) Lauren & Joanne
7(+0) Meaghan & Marie, are eliminated
"
They're ganging up against us, we're here with these peasants and we're gonna have to deal with them", Irina has an interesting take on the other teams
Aarthy & Thinesh and Anthony & James do their best to step on the mat simultaneously. When Jon asks Aarthy explains that they did not want anybody who did not give up to go home.
"
Karma is a beautiful thing", Aarthy about the help from Anthony during the road block
After Meaghan & Marie have arrived at the mat Jon calls the other waiting teams there and tell them their placement (they all took penalties). He then tells Meaghan & Marie that they are eliminated. Trish & Amy and Lauren & Joanne immediately go over to hug them while Dave & Irina just stands there.
"
This race brought us together more than I ever could've imagine", Meaghan