Shotover Jet Queenstown
Riverside jet boat base launching high-speed thrill rides through narrow river canyons since 1965.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Shotover Jet in Queenstown follows the owner who ran the Arthurs Point jet boat business in its early years, and the day a returning customer came back with her husband and a complaint. It reaches back to nineteen sixty-five, when two brothers from Invercargill launched a single boat from this beach, and to the Hamilton Jet engine that made river running possible. Best heard on the beach, watching the boats come and go.
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