Never again would Auckland, Maori's, games on the beach or a walk in the woods be seen the same. Not even bungee jumping or kayaking will have the same appeal. This all to thanks to our New Zealand Challenge. And what a challenge it was!
We started off with a run along the beach. We headed toward the city and completed various tasks on our way. All along we were motivated by our own personal drill sergeant Prosch. Luckily the view was spectacular and God faithful. Along our way we found very friendly kiwi's more than willing to help crazy South African's. We got lifts to almost every destination and amazingly all the drivers either knew exactly where we were going or were heading in that very direction.
As we made our way along the North Shore we had to find and ride a flying fox (this is a ride in a children's park), one person had to kayak around a rock in the ocean and try to catch a fish, we slipped and slid up Tor Island and searched for a bird lady and played and won a volley ball game. Then we went to a pump house turned theatre to find out that The owl and the pussycat is currently showing and we searched for the tombstone of a famous Maori. We then had to fast forward into the city to be in time to take a photo at the Holy Trinity Church with the lovely windows in the background and grab the last tickets for a Maori cultural show at the museum. We watched a fascinating show and spent another hour and a half searching for all sorts of things in the museum. This was the turning point in the Auckland challenge. As we were the only team to complete this task, the others were sure to be panelised with 10 points.
Afterwards we headed into town to drink coffee on Parnell Street and started raising funds to do a SkyJump. This would be our bonus task, which would've taken up way too much time had the other teams not missed Maori show. We raised $145 (the equivalent of R900) in a matter of an hour for Tjaart to take the plunge. By now the sun has set and we had taken the necessary photo with the statue of a famous Maori chief. We took a ferry back to the North Shore and were lucky to get a lift up Mt Victoria to take our picture with the breathtaking Auckland skyline in the background. We measured the distance between Algies Bay and Rangitoto before we headed toward the Fernglen and Kauri Parks to search for hidden co-ordinates and find an X.
At some ridicules hour we headed back to Surita and Gerhard's house which was to be the finishing point. After a very long and tiring walk we found a taxi and got back in third position. Although we only finished third we ended up in first place due to the other teams being penalised. Yellow is ahead in the overall rankings and amped to keep it that way.
Until next time yellow says to have a slice of custard cake and how many teaspoons of sunshine do you take?