2015년 11월 14일 우리집앞 숏-오바(Shotover) 래프팅 오픈 50주년 참가.

2015년 11월 14일 우리집앞 숏-오바(Shotover) 래프팅 오픈 50주년 참가.

개장 래프팅 지역 주민을 위한 최대 잔치는 역시 래프팅 최저 할인가(NZ$25/정상가 NZ$132) 제공.

모 처럼 집사람과 로칼스 데이(Locals Day) 래프팅 티켓을 25불씩에 각각 구입 후 승선해 보았다. 정말 스트레스 확 날아간 느낌이었으며,

특히, 아슬아슬한 기암괴석 사이를 초고속 질주하면서 360도 회전하는 묘미는 스릴만점의 엑티비티였다.

그 외에도 그 옛날 옛적 유명한 금광지였던 만큼 어린이들을 위한 보불찾기 등 다양한 행사가 오후 2시까지 진행되었다.

  

Pioneering tourism company Shotover Jet celebrates 50 years in business

Fifty years of innovation, tourism history and success is on display for all to see at Queenstown International Airport this month and next.

 

As Queenstown’s iconic Shotover Jet celebrates a landmark 50 years

in tourism, thousands of visitors to the airport’s international and

domestic terminals can see for themselves just how jet boat technology

has improved over the decades.

On display in the domestic arrivals area is an original Hamilton

Jet boat – makers of Shotover Jet boats in the early years.

 

Laden with history and a powerful reminder of just how much technology

has improved over the decades, the Hamilton Jet 30 features

a red fibreglass hull #109 moulded in Hamilton Jet’s’

Christchurch factory with a timber deck.

 

It left the factory on Christmas Eve 1963 and went straight into service

over the busy Christmas and New Year holidays, registered as

‘Red hull Queenstown taxi’ by the pioneering Melhop brothers,

Harold and Alan.

 

Hamilton Jet built 188 of these boats between 1960 and 1972, powered by a 170 horsepower Ford Falcon engine coupled to a Hamilton

Single Stage Colorado Jet Unit.

 

While widely admired for its power and maneuverability at the time, this pumped 220 litres of water a second through the jet unit compared

to the 740 litres per second of Shotover Jet’s current boats.

 

In 1965 this boat was transferred to Shotover Jet Services -- also owned by the Melhops -- and so started the era of Shotover Jet.

“We’re thrilled to have one of these early boats as it represents a piece of early New Zealand tourism history,” said

Ngāi Tahu Tourism Southern Regional Manager David Kennedy. “We’re even more delighted to have it on display

at the airport for two months for everyone to admire.”

 

As well as the Jet 30, another display sits in the international arrivals hall, where a small replica Shotover Jet ‘buggy’ sits on rocks

in front of a famous Shotover River canyon image.

 

Visitors are being encouraged to sit in the buggy and take their own photos.

In November 2015 Shotover Jet will become the first jet boat operator in the world to reach a milestone 50 years’ of continuous operation.

It started operations on the upper Shotover River in 1965 and was one of the experiences that helped put New Zealand

on the global tourism map.

An original adventure tourism operator, not only is Shotover Jet still going, it’s still growing -- last year carrying over

140,000 people from around the world.

 

 

 

 

수 많은 지역  주민들이 50주년 행사에 참석.

 

 

 

 

 

360도 회전.

 

어린이들을 위한 보물 찾기.

 

동영상 촬영 및 사진 확인 기념품점.