Southern flights of fancy
Report and pictures by
LES BLOXHAM,
, travel editor.
Visitors to Queenstown now have a choice of two jet boating trips that also include the thrills of riding a helicopter. Heli Super Jet was launched last year after The Helicopter Line, which had supplied the chopper support for the long established Heli-jet on the Kawarau River, agreed to a new arrangement with two keen young Queenstown jet boaters, Blake Holden and Mark Quickfall. Passengers are ferried by mini-bus from the centre of Queenstown to the airport at Frankton from where they are flown by helicopter to the banks of the Shotover. River.
The jet-boating part of their experience takes them through shallow water upstream to Tuckers Beach and back. They are then returned to the airport by helicopter.
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