WorldJetboatExpeditions.com shipped a boat to Canada to provide support to the Mark Cromie Holden Hamburg Sud race team
for the 2007 Great Canadian World Jet Boat Marathon. In doing so, we boated a number of the major rivers of Canada including the
Smokey, Peace and Alabathaca in areas were bear and moose are seen regularly on the river and finishing the tour with a 40lb
lake trout in the Yukon region on Wolfe Lake.
(2006) Bhutan, Nepal,
India
In December 2006 an
expedition party shipped three jet boats to Calcutta for road carriage up to
Bhutan. From Bhutan the twelve expedition members successfully navigated five
major river systems off the Himalayas. On the two major river systems through
Bhutan, including armis Royal National Park, and on to Nepal where they
successfully ascended Son Kosi, Kali Gandak and Karnali river systems, totalling
23 rivers through much adversity and poverty.
A three week tour with six jet boats shipped
from New Zealand to Zambia, Central Africa, was undertaken in July 2005. The
tour was approximately 2000km of jet boating through the ambesi River and many
of its major tributaries. Through world renowned national parks amongst Africa’s
biggest five game animals all the way to some of the most remote parts of
Zambia.
The highlight of the trip being boating most of Zambesi Gorge and the face of
Victoria Falls.
In 2000
we were the first to navigate successfully the infamous grade 5 Rangitata Gorge rapids.
Hollyford
Early in 2005 a tour was undertaken to the remote and scenic wonderlands of Fiordland to the Hollyford Valley in the Milford Sound.
The tour consisted of a drive to Hollyford, launching
about 10km downstream with the boats laden with a weeks fuel and supplies, a
helicopter lift of the Hidden Falls rapids and continuing on to accommodation at the Department of Conservation huts on Lake Alibaster.
For a period of three days the group indulged in the plentiful fishing and hunting of the area, as well as an exploration of Lake
McKerrow to the Hollyford River’s outlet at Martins Bay. They continued across Lake Alabaster to the Pyke River Falls - boating through
Lake Wilmot amongst some of New Zealand’s most scenic wonderlands. They returned to navigate the boats up through Hidden Falls.
West Coast
A number of tours and expeditions have been taken to New Zealand’s West Coast over the years.
WorldJetboatExpeditions.com in the headwaters
of the Crooked River which feeds Lake Brunner.
Clearing a path to continue on up the Hinatau River, a tributary of the Pyrowa River
WorldJetboatExpeditions.com shipped a boat to Canada to provide support to the Mark Cromie Holden Hamburg Sud race team
for the 2007 Great Canadian World Jet Boat Marathon. In doing so, we boated a number of the major rivers of Canada including the
Smokey, Peace and Alabathaca in areas were bear and moose are seen regularly on the river and finishing the tour with a 40lb
lake trout in the Yukon region on Wolfe Lake.
In December 2006 an
expedition party shipped three jet boats to Calcutta for road carriage up to
Bhutan. From Bhutan the twelve expedition members successfully navigated five
major river systems off the Himalayas. On the two major river systems through
Bhutan, including armis Royal National Park, and on to Nepal where they
successfully ascended Son Kosi, Kali Gandak and Karnali river systems, totalling
23 rivers through much adversity and poverty.
A three week tour with six jet boats shipped
from New Zealand to Zambia, Central Africa, was undertaken in July 2005. The
tour was approximately 2000km of jet boating through the ambesi River and many
of its major tributaries. Through world renowned national parks amongst Africa’s
biggest five game animals all the way to some of the most remote parts of
Zambia.
The highlight of the trip being boating most of Zambesi Gorge and the face of
Victoria Falls.
In 2000
we were the first to navigate successfully the infamous grade 5 Rangitata Gorge rapids.
The tour consisted of a drive to Hollyford, launching
about 10km downstream with the boats laden with a weeks fuel and supplies, a
helicopter lift of the Hidden Falls rapids and continuing on to accommodation at the Department of Conservation huts on Lake Alibaster.
For a period of three days the group indulged in the plentiful fishing and hunting of the area, as well as an exploration of Lake
McKerrow to the Hollyford River’s outlet at Martins Bay. They continued across Lake Alabaster to the Pyke River Falls - boating through
Lake Wilmot amongst some of New Zealand’s most scenic wonderlands. They returned to navigate the boats up through Hidden Falls.
WorldJetboatExpeditions.com in the headwaters
of the Crooked River which feeds Lake Brunner.
Clearing a path to continue on up the Hinatau River, a tributary of the Pyrowa River