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EP4:10/19 "I Wonder If They Like Blondes in New Zealand?"
apskip:
I have found where Gulf Harbour is. It is slightly southeast of Orewa. Here is the map of the Whangaparoa Peninsula, with Gulf Harbour in the middle:
Gulf Harbour New Zealand North Island
Driving directions from Auckland International Airport to Gulf Harbour are:
route 20B from the airport to link with route 20 north, which intersects with Route 1 north. Route 1 goes near the center of Auckland, over a bridge to the North Shore, and continues. At Silverdale, turn right on the Whangaparoa road. Gulf Harbour is about halfway out that peninsula.
Here is a link to a good Auckland area interactive map to apply those directions to- http://www.aucklandnz.com/images/uploads/file/Regional%20Map.pdf
If it calls for it(which it almost certainly will), driving directions to connect up with earlier directions from Route 1 on the south side of Auckland are:
reverse the route, taking the Whangaparoa road back to route 1 south. Follow Route 1 back over that bridge and to the south side of Auckland, then continuing on route 2 or route 2, 27, 24 and 29 to Tauranga.
There is a ferry from Auckland to Gulf Harbour, but it is not likely to have played a role in AR13 because teams drive marked cars.
puddin:
I was thinking that they find their first clue box at the Gulf Harbor and again, we encounter some sort of hours of operation. Phil tells us pretty much that the Maori are at One Tree Hill right?
54.3 km – about 1 hour 1 min
apskip:
--- Quote from: puddin on October 15, 2008, 12:31:01 PM ---I was thinking that they find their first clue box at the Gulf Harbor and again, we encounter some sort of hours of operation. Phil tells us pretty much that the Maori are at One Tree Hill right?
54.3 km – about 1 hour 1 min
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puddin:
Yes and either route 20 or route 1 goes adjacent to One Tree Hill on the south side of central Aukland and the other isn't far from it.
patlini:
so the first clue at gulf habour holds the FF clue.
puddin:
Here patlini, if this helps, dug up from the spoilers thread ..
--- Quote from: Neobie on June 08, 2008, 09:07:21 AM ---Oh, daylight saving! So he probably didn't adjust his camera clock - it's showing the same time in Russia's DST, all over the world.
Following this, Phil was at Tonle Sap on 4 May at 7.19am, and Mom/Son at 9.26am. Works into the grand scheme of things!
Teams arrive in Auckland morning of the 2nd and have a leg there. While they are having their Pit Stop, Phil sneaks onto a flight on the morning of the 3rd (thanks Apskip). As our racers get released, they take afternoon flights towards Cambodia, and get snagged on Hours of Operation that evening. The Cambodia leg then starts proper on the morning of the 4th - dragging on to give us the 11.30ish sightings at Angkor Wat!
Teams leave on the morning of the 6th, so something must have held up the teams. An extended Pit Stop (as mentioned earlier)? Highly possible.
The blurry Auckland Sky Tower would have been taken at 3am, 28 Apr; the jumpsuit girl at 3.20pm the next day; and Maori guy 7.07pm on 30 Apr. The Fast Forward's ready for use, and maybe even used (missing #1 tag), 2 May 6.51am. Does this make sense? (Something tells me the timings should be slightly later.)
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--- Quote from: apskip on June 08, 2008, 01:24:57 PM ---
--- Quote from: Mrs Shrek on June 08, 2008, 03:37:02 AM ---
Based on that time offset for his camera, the first blurry photo of the sky tower taken at night is quite likely to be taken when the crew first arrived in NZ cos 18:58 +6hrs gives a time of around 1am on 04/28
The Maori guy's pictures are around 17:00 on 04/30 and may be able to be confirmed from the watch picture below?
But this makes the photos of the Fast Forward and the blonde girl between 04:50am and 6am, which given the sky walk is usually open between 10am to 4.30pm, and it is winter time too, seems a bit unusual. I would have thought doing it in the dark wouldn't be as scarey cos you couldn't see the ground. :duno:
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Neobie, I think you have it correct. LAN801 landed around 0355 on May 2 at Auckland International Airport. A Fast Forward dash would have ensued, with arrival in the 5am time frame by whichever teams went fof it. We know that at least one team did and that any others teams did nto stay at the Sky Tower.
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