The Amazing Race Australia – Episode Five
The Leg
  
Its 4 in the morning and Matt & Tom and Tyler & Nathan open the first clue of the 5th leg of the Race telling teams to fly to Cape Town and head to Dolphin Beach for their next clue.
All the teams get on the same flight and they fly to Cape Town. Once there, they hop into taxis and Matt & Tom maintain their place on top by getting to the cluebox first along with Tyler & Nathan, Jeff & Luke, Chris & Anastasia and Alana & Mel where they find the Road Block.
In this Road Block, teams drive themselves to the Melkboss Air Strip where they’ll have to complete a tandem skydive from 9000 feet. Their team member will help guide them at the landing site using flares.
  
Sam & Renae and Dave & Kelly are bringing up the rear while Mo & Mos have to walk/run a kilometer and/or mile down the beach after their taxi drops them off way off the mark.
Teams gear up for the Road Block and despite fears of heights and soiling themselves, they all make the jump and land safely on the ground.
Now teams have to make their way to Nobel Square in Cape Town for their next clue, but also where they’ll find the Intersection where teams have to pair up with another team and complete all tasks together until they are told otherwise.
Matt & Tom and Chris & Anastasia are the first pair of Intersected teams and they open the clue telling them to head to Kargo Warehouse where they will hitch and load a trailer with gifts for the children of the Intyatyambo Orphanage. After delivering the toys and groceries, they’ll receive their next clue.
Tyler & Nathan wait for Jeff & Luke while Alana & Mel arrive before Dave & Kelly, but decide to take a loo and twinkle break first. That leaves Sam & Renae with no choice but to wait and Intersect with Mo & Mos.
  
The first two teams get their trailers loaded, but Alana & Mel and Dave & Kelly can’t find each other getting out of the Harbor carpark. Sam & Renae meanwhile continue their flirtatious strategy and get a couple of policemen to lead them and Mo & Mos straight to the warehouse where the girls get frustrated with Mo & Mos’… Mo & Mos-ness.
On the way to the orphanage, it’s the obligatory “eyes opened” sequence where teams are in awe of the poor conditions people live in, but are enlightened nonetheless. At the orphanage, teams are touched by the smiles on the children’s’ faces when they arrive and they all enjoy the short time they have there.
But the Race continues. The teams are no longer Intersected and teams find the Detour.
In Guns, teams head to the Valley Club Shooting Range where they must shoot nine flying clay tiles.
In Rosé, teams head to a winery where they must collect a large barrel and bring it up to tanks where they’ll fill the barrels with rosé wine.
  
Matt & Tom, Jeff & Luke, and Tyler & Nathan go play with guns while Chris & Anastasia head to Rosé. Chris carries the barrel all by himself. That’s fine. But then Anastasia opens the tap, the bucket overflows and Chris unloads. He starts screaming, lecturing and insulting Anastasia about not waiting to open the tap. She takes a seat while Chris does the Detour himself, while continuing to scold her.
The teams finish up at the Detour and they receive their next clue pointing them to the Atlantis Dunes where they have ride all-terrain vehicles across the sand dunes and search among 15 baskets for two that contain clues. Under the other 13 baskets are hourglasses of varying sizes. If a team uncovers the hourglass, they’ll have to wait until the sands run out before moving on to the next basket until they find the clue.
Tyler & Nathan, Matt & Tom and Jeff & Luke are the first ones there and after a few hourglassed-baskets, they find the clues and they are directed to the Pit Stop at Nobel Square in Cape Town.
While Sam backs into her own trailer, Chris & Anastasia have the luck to find the basket with the 45 minute hourglass. And to kick ’em while they’re done, their car keys are lost… in the sand dunes.
  
As Dave & Kelly head off to the Pit Stop and Chris & Anastasia scour the dunes for keys, Mo & Mos zoom past Alana & Mel and Sam & Renae to head out into the dunes before them.
At the Pit Stop, Tyler & Nathan squeak by and officially win the leg and a A$5000 home entertainment system from Bing Lee. Matt & Tom have to settle for 2nd, with Jeff & Luke checking-in 3rd and Dave & Kelly up in 4th.
Alana & Mel luck out and find the clues and head to the Pit Stop in 5th.
Back at the dunes, Mo & Mos finally finish their hourglass and head off while Sam & Renae find the clue.
After Chris & Anastasia find the car key, they take another blow to gut… literally, in Anastasia’s case. She speeds off ahead of Chris over a hill and goes flying and then smashing down below, slamming her body into the ATV and then throwing her off.
She’s fine though and they find the clue and head back to their car… but now the key would flip out. Sam & Renae come running (where were they?!) and they help Christasia with the key before they head off together. Sam & Renae finish 6th, while Chris & Anastasia flip-flop back to 7th.
That leaves friends Mo & Mos last and eliminated.
 
Episode Thoughts
Another good episode. What I liked best was it being a great example of how legs can last longer than an hour or two. The teams this leg were Racing the whole day. And it’s been that way for the previous legs as well.
That is unlike TARUS which seems to prefer having episodes play out in real time and having legs be run in less than an hour or two.
TARUS has pretty much done away with extra tasks and focused on Detours and Road Blocks only, sometimes skipping one or the other altogether. Which is what makes TARAu much more fun and exciting with all the extra tasks they have to do.
The tasks help build more excitement and allow for teams to slip up or get ahead instead of the legs being decided right at the beginning with no opportunity for teams to catch up and/or fail.
Also nice to see TAR in South Africa as well and TARA and TARAu appear to love making a point to do something good for the childrens every season which is also nice.
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