| Notes |
| ● |
As usual, the cameraman was Graham Berry and the video engineer
was Frank Meyburgh, but the helicopter was flown by local pilot Ian Johnston
(instead of Keith Thompson). |
| ● |
At the beginning of the episode, Kenneth introduces Annabel
as ‘guest skyrunner’, implying that Anneka will be back next year after her
maternity leave. |
| 1 |
The helicopter lands on the shore of Lake Rotomahana, famous
for its pink and white silica terraces (where early Victorians saw Pink and
White). Annabel and the crew take a boat to another, geothermally-active part
of the shore (where they’re letting off steam), where a group of Maoris is cooking.
The clue is in the oven (hangi). |
| 2 |
Annabel flies to the Blue Lake (water the colour of sporting
Oxbridge) and lands on the shore where she meets two parascenders who help her
remove her comms pack, don a wet suit and lifejacket, and attach a parascending
chute. Graham and Frankie run back to the helicopter and track Annabel from
the air as she takes off (get upwardly mobile). Frankie commentates. She splashes
down a short distance from the small fishing boat (piscatorial craft) ‘Red Setter’,
swims the rest of the way and retrieves the clue. |
| 3 |
The helicopter takes a still wet Annabel to a geothermal area
near Rotorua (place with the helicopter-blade start) where there is a Pa, a
collection of Maori houses on ancestral land. After landing, she runs towards
a green where a group of Maori dancers is performing, but is ‘kidnapped’ by
Maori men on the way and ‘escorted’ to the green. The clue is attached to a
dancer’s poi, a length of rope with balls on each end. |
| 4 |
Annabel lands by Long Ridge Park (park by the ridge) and meets
Stewart, who takes her and the crew on his tractor into a kiwi (Chinese gooseberry)
growing area, where she finds the clue in row 3 of block 12 (duodecimal block). |
| 5 |
Stewart takes Annabel and the crew to a waiting speedboat
on the nearby Kaituna River (gorge with a fishy ending). They power up the gorge
to the rapids, eventually meeting a ‘River Rats Rafting Company’ inflatable
raft. Annabel boards and is given the treasure, a toy kiwi bird, by one of the
rafters (give you the bird). [Kiwis are flightless birds, hence “You won’t find
him in the flying squad”.] |
