It didn't take long before Ava handed her quad bike over to me, only because I had driven one before- baring in mind that helicopters are very expensive & everybody was waiting for us, so we had to be quick. The last time I was on a quad bike I realized that it’s all about speed, so off I went, Ketrice clinging to my back, hurling over the dunes for a rendezvous with a helicopter in the distance.
On one occasion my nerves failed me half way up a huge dune, I made a U- turn & came back, but I realized there was no other way…I had to go up. We got to the top of the dune and the guide was standing on a precipice signaling for me to ‘go slow’, Johan(10) turned & looked at me, his eyes like saucers as they vanished over the edge.
Three story’s high almost straight down – but down we had to go. It was incredible, the sound of the sand that rushed underneath us, for those few seconds it drained out the rest of the world.
Finally they got the shot & we maid it to our second location (the runway used in Flight of the Phoenix) just in the nick of time. I was still reeling with adrenalin, a big, fat grin fixed on my face.
So this is how I was chased at high speed by a helicopter, down a “runway”, with our DOP hanging on for dear life…Only in the MOVIES, ha ha?
By Christa
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