Racing Report Leg #4
November 25, a Saturday
Teams had a standard 12 hour pit Stop between legs.
Teams leave the Pit Stop, at Playa Petrohue in the order they arrived.
1. Rob & Amber 6:11 am
2. Uchenna & Joyce 6:26 am
3. Eric & Danielle 6:28 am
4. Dustin & Kandice 6:40 am
5. Oswald & Danny 6:51 am
6. Teri & Ian 6:53 am
7. Joe & Bill 8:05 am
8. Charla & Mirna 8:11 am (matches Chateau time estimate. So we can confirm a standard 12 hour pitstop).
Teams are provided $302.00 for this leg of the race.
Teams are instructed to fly over 800 miles to Punta Arenas, Chile. When they arrive they will travel by taxi 15 miles to Lord Lonsdale’s Shipwreck.
Teams must drive themselves from Playa Petrohue back to Puerto Montt Airport.
Teams arrive in the following order:
1. Rob & Amber
2. Eric & Danielle
3. Uchenna & Joyce (while these two teams are getting their ticket it is 8:10 am).
4. Dustin & Kandice
5. Oswald & Danny
6. Teri & Ian
7. Joe & Bill (The plane that leaves at 9:40 am is boarding when Joe & Bill arrive).
8. Charla & Mirna
The first 6 teams are able to to make the the first Flight, while Joe & Bill and Charla & Mirna must take the later flight.
First Flight: LAN 991 leaving Puerto Montt, arriving in Punta Arenas at 11:50am
Second Flight: LAN 997 leaving Puerto Montt, arriving in Punta Arenas at 1:25 pm.
An hour and 35 minutes after the first flight.
While waiting Rob & Amber use internet to locate the shipwreck, though they waste time thinking it’s a painting (which there are), and not the actual shipwreck. But they do figure it out.
Joe & Bill use the wait and ask a local for the address.
Uchenna & Joyce ask a flight attendant, who then proceeds to give the info not to Uchenna but to Rob & Amber. Which reads – Park Maria Betty, South Punta Arenas.
Teams arrive in Punta Arenas and get taxi's in the following order.
1. Rob & Amber
2. Eric & Danielle
3. Oswald & Danny
4. Uchenna & Joyce
5. Dustin & Kandice
6. Teri & Ian.
The Next Flights teams.
7. Joe & Bill
8. Charla & Mirna
Teams arrive at the shipwreck at get to the route marker in the following order:
1. Rob & Amber
2. Oswald & Danny
3. Eric & Danielle
4. Uchenna & Joyce
5. Teri & Ian
6. Dustin & Kandice
Next Flights Teams
7. Charla & Mirna
8. Joe & Bill
Detour – Navigate or Sign it.
In Navigate It: Teams have to use a map of Punta Arenas to get to the town plaza where a sailor will hand them a compass. Then, using the compass, the Teams need to walk directly south to find the Nautilus Building, a deep-sea salvage business.
In Sign It: Teams have to choose a pole and building supplies and carry them up a flight of stairs to Magellan's Map. Using the map as a reference, Teams need to figure out his journey around the world began and ended in Seville. Then, they have to build a traditional local signpost listing in order the fourteen ports of call in his voyage. While the signs didn't have to point in the right direction, all the cities had to be spelled correctly.
According to Rob & Amber, the clue didn’t specify that spelling had to be accurate.
According to Slowhatch the distance between the Plaza and the Nautilus building (located at 803 Boliviana) is 4 blocks directly south.
One is curious how far it is from the Shipwreck to the Plaza and how much time that took to do, since the walking from Plaza to Nautilus should have been completed quickly?
Navigate It: Oswald & Danny, Eric & Danielle, Teri & Ian and Joe & Bill initial choose. All other teams (besides Uchenna & Joyce) will switch from Sign It, to perform this Detour instead.
Sign It: Rob & Amber, Uchenna & Joyce, Dustin & Kandice, and Charla & Mirna choose this Detour.
Teams get to the Town Square to receive their clue in the following order:
1. Eric & Danielle
2. Oswald & Danny
3. Teri & Ian
The next teams arrive after the 2cd plane arrives in Punta Arenas.
4. Dustin & Kandice
5. Rob & Amber
6. Joe & Bill (who manage to catchup and pass teams 4 & 5 even though they arrived 1 hour 35 minutes later.
7. Charla & Mirna
Teams get to the Nautilus Building in the following Order:
1. Eric & Danielle
2. Oswald & Danny
3. Teri & Ian
Somewhere in this time frame Uchenna & Joyce are the only team that successfully completes the Sign It Detour.
4. Joe & Bill
5. Rob & Amber
6. Dustin & Kandice (Teams 5 & 6 lose even more time, when Rob instead of following the Detour’s clue, just assumes he knows the location. He wasn’t correct)
7. Charla & Mirna
Teams are directed to the Airport where they must sign up for one of two charter flights which leave 3 hours apart. They will fly 165 miles to the city of Ushuala, Argentina (not Australia Danielle, almost as bad as Jeremy asking how are they getting from Moscow to Munich, Germany in season 9). At Fin del Mundo they must go to Playa larga beach along Canal Beagle where they will find their next clue.
Teams arrive at the airport and sign up for the charter flight at the Sky Airlines Counter (Yet they clearly Fly LAN, who knows) in the following order:
1. Oswald & Danny
2. Eric & Danielle
3. Teri & Ian
These three teams manage this before the 2cd flight arrives and from the 2cd floor watch Joe & Bill and Charla & Mirna leave the airport.
4. Uchenna & Joyce
5. Joe & Bill
6. Rob & Amber
7. Dustin & Kandice
8. Charla & Mirna. And are considerable later then any team, even teams 6 & 7.
The first Charter Flight leaves Punta Arenas at 8:00 am the following morning, Sunday the 26th. So all teams have a nice chance to relax and get some rest.
Punta Arenas to Ushuala.
First Flight: LAN 1381 (corrected thanks to apskip) departing at 8:00 am and arriving at 8:50 am. It carries the first 3 teams.
Second Flight: LAN 1383 departing at 11:00 am and arriving at 11:50 am. All other teams must take the later flight.
Teams arrive at the airport and get cabs in the following order:
First Flight
1. Teri & Ian
2. Oswald & Danny
3. Eric & Danielle
Second Flight
4. Dustin & Kandice
5. Joe & Bill
6. Uchenna & Joyce
7. Rob & Amber
8. Charla & Mirna
Teams arrive at the cluebox in the following order:
1. Oswald & Danny
2. Eric & Danielle
3. Teri & Ian (who according to clips spent about 40 minutes looking in the wrong area).
4. Joe & Bill
5. Uchenna & Joyce
6. Dustin & Kandice
7. Rob & Amber
8. Charla & Mirna
Teams must travel by taxi to Bahia Lapataia National Park of Tiera del fugo. Where they will be 17,815 kilometers from my home state of Alaska (see I learned something from the show, travel porn is not only Hot, but educational as well). At the end of the PAN American Highway they will take a boat that departs every 20 minutes to Isla Redonda, also known as the end of the world as it’s the Southern most point of the Americas. Once there teams must find the Unidad Postal Fin de Mundo, Correo, Argentino (the local Post Office).
Teams arrive at the dock and pull a number in the following order:
1. Eric & Danielle -1st boat
2. Oswald & Danny -1st boat
3. Teri & Ian -2cd boat (Teams 1 & @ have already departed before they arrive)
4. Dustin & Kandice -3rd boat, and should be close to two hours after Teri & Ian.
5. Joe & Bill -3rd boat.
6. Uchenna & Joyce -4th boat
7. Rob & Amber -4th boat
8. Charla & Mirna -5th boat. Teams 4 & 5 has just left, when they have arrived.
Teams arrive at the Post Office for their next clue in the following order:
1. Oswald & Danny
2. Eric & Danielle
3. Teri & Ian
4. Dustin & Kandice
5. Joe & Bill
6. Rob & Amber
7. Uchenna & Joyce
8. Charla & Mirna (and should be a full 20 minutes behind team 6 & 7.
ROADBLOCK-One team member must perform the job of a postal worker and choose a bag, and sort through 1600 envelopes for one of the two envelopes addresses to that team. What teams don’t know is that the letters were written by cast members from their first season on the Race. That team member must read the letter fully to their partner to receive their next clue.
Each letter is addressed to the teams by Team name members first name with the following address.
Isla Redonda Post Office
CP 9410
Ushuala, ARGENTINA
The team member who does the roadblock
Oswald - 2 roadblock
Eric – 2cd roadblock
Teri – 2cd roadblock
Kandice – 2cd roadblock
Bill – 2cd roadblock
Rob – 1st roadblock (and only roadblock, he-he)
Joyce – 2cd roadblock
Mirna – 2cd roadblock
Teams complete the roadblock in the following order:
1. Oswald & Danny (letter from Blake & Paige)
2. Eric & Danielle (letter from Dani & Jeremy original team mates)
3. Teri & Ian (Letter from 3rd season winners Zach and deadweight)
4. Joe & Bill (letter from Loud and pushy Frank)
5. Dustin & Kandice (letter from half of Bama, the nicer half Lyn)
6. Uchenna & Joyce (letter from Patrick & Susan, okay I was surprised by that one)
7. Charla & Mirna (letter from Marshall & Lance the quitters, made Flo look good)
8. Rob & Amber (letter from Susan & Patrick, again I would think Lynn & Alex could have pulled double duty and they certainly hated this team).
Rob never found either of the two envelopes before Charla & Mirna left, and looked though another bag before he found one.
Teams must travel on foot and following the path around the Island until they find Masti de Belgrand (or Mastili Crucao ARA General Belgrano) the pit stop for the fourth leg of the race.
Teams arrive at the Pit Stop in the following Order:
1. Oswald & Danny and win a cruise to Maui
2. Eric & Danielle
3. Teri & Ian
4. Joe & Bill
5. Dustin & Kandice
6. Uchenna & Joyce
7. Charla & Mirna
8. Rob & Amber – who are eliminated.
Evidently Charla & Mirna took the longer route and still managed to be ahead of Rob & Amber.
This leads me to believe that it really took Rob a considerable amount of time to find a letter. And that once they did they were already sure they were in last place. Thus why we never really see them running to the Pit Stop.