Shotover Jet Queenstown

Queenstown – Zentrum für Fun-, Action- und Extremsportarten. Einwohner gibt es hier nur ungefähr 9'000, Besucher sind es rund 1.5Mio pro Jahr. Es gibt also vor allem Unterkünfte, Restaurants, Souvenierläden und eben Anbieter für Bungee-Jumping, Swing-Jumping (Riesenschaukel über eine Schlucht, mit einem 60m freien Fall zu Beginn (war we***** …

Queenstown – Best drive of our lives
Finally, we hit the road, brief look at the map, and ready to rock. Remembering again to disconnect the power cable, I know rightly,one of these days Il be driving out, look into my mirror and see a power cable pole dragging behind us. We’d a 3 and half hour journey which lay ahead, which pretty …

My second time in Queenstown is a much better experience than the first time around, for one I have money now and my word does Queenstown drain your bank account easily!

On the 8th of November I leave Te Anau and head for Queenstown, getting there much earlier than I expected because on the map it looks like a long way, having to go right …

Many of the Drop bears booked in to go to Milford Sound the morning after we arrived and needed to be ready to go by 6.30 am!!!!!! It was early, but as we found out - well worth the effort. We left when it was still dark and snoozed until we got to Te Anua where we had the opportunity to eat, drink coffee and stock up for lunch. the scenery along …

After a quick stay in Wanaka after returning from the West Coast, Jesse and I were off to our final destination, Queenstown. Queenstown was the reason why I decided to travel to New Zealand and was the catalyst for choosing to spend six weeks in New Zealand (after some research and discussion). Queenstown is considered by most to be the extreme …

Monday

Another long drive, a few walks, a picnic lunch and we eventually arrive back in Queenstown to stay in Lakeside - the holiday home of Jason & Louise, friends of Neil and Sandra. It is a lovely old house that has been tastefully renovated. We ate that night at Rata, quite expensive, in town.


Tuesday

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Queenstown
is the adrenaline capital of NZ, you can do anything here, from white
water rafting, speedboating, bungee jumping, abseiling/rock climbing,
skydiving, parasailing, paragliding, flights, boats, you name it,
they got it.


The town
is situated by Lake Wakatipu, the Remarkables (massive mountain range) …

Today we went on a jet boat ride. The river was see through, because it was just the snow that had fallen off the mountain that the river was beside. The river goes through a canyon. The guide drove a half meter away from the wall of the canyon! We did lots of 360s, the first one we got soaked! The boat goes 80 to 85 KMPH! The ride is twenty-five …

At the end of my year in Australia my Mum came over for the last 3 weeks. We then flew to New Zealand for a two week tour. We flew into Christchurch and picked up our tour, we didn't stay in Christchurch long, but it was so pretty, it reminded us so much of England. We toured all around the south island, unfortunately it was so long ago I can't …

Hold on as action packed days are about to begin. Queenstown was founded on a gold rush in the 1860s. Even today it is estimated that only one third of the gold has been mined but the mighty tourist dollar is more valuable. Queenstown is the home of many firsts – bungy jumping, jetboating, paragliding, etc.

After a leisurely morning …

So from Wanaka to extreme central of New Zealand. Queenstown is a town where you can find any kind of extreme and there is something for everyone. The first day I started thinking about bungy jumping. Could I actually do it? If I don't do it now, ...

Next stop on our trip was Queenstown, the adventure activity capital of New Zealand. We were looking forward to our stop here as we had heard so many good things about it and Queenstown def lived up to our expectations. The obvious comparisons to ...

... swings, mountain biking, helicopter flights to glaciers, and white water rafting. Since we'd both bungy jumped before we decided on the Shotover jet boat trip and the white water rafting.   The jet boat which only requires a few inches of water ...

... activities aren't cheap for sure!  In the end, we decided to do the Shotover Duo combo - a ride on the famous Shotover Jet and a rafting trip down the Shotover River. The Shotover Jet is a popular jetboat to hurtle people through the Shotover ...

... back to the campervan with a nice hot water bottle that I'd bought earlier in the day. Next day we booked onto the Shotover Jet although I was a bit apprehensive as thought I might get motion sickness again. However, as the jet doesn't really go into ...

... the coach, I was glad to hear that today we were going to drive a relatively short distance of 112kms to Queenstown, New Zealand's official Extreme town. You can do absolutely anything extreme based here, whether you want to throw yourself off a ...

... a short drive to the Shotover Canyon we got our waterproofs and lifejackets on and boarded the boat. The Shotover Jet is the first jet powered boat circuit in New Zealand and is the only one to run through the tight turns of the Shotover Canyon (PICS). ...

... even scarier and unfortunately for me I was shouting and screaming all the way up. When we got back to town we had missed the last Shotover Jet river ride of the day so we decided to get stuck into a game of Frisbee golf in Queenstown Gardens. This is a ...

... and river-surfing, one after the other. Early in the morning we were taken to the Shotover River and boarded the Shotover Jet for a fast and thrilling ride, dodging rocks and fallen trees, skimming over water at times as shallow as a few inches and ...

... to Shotover Canyon. Fortunately, we made it just in time - the bus was just about to leave! Our first stop was the Shotover Jet. This is a speedboat ride that goes up and down Shotover Canyon, a privately owned canyon and river area in the mountains ...