JOHN ALL READY FOR JET BOAT RIDE
JET BOAT
JOHN IN GONDOLA
VIEW OF QUEENSTOWN FROM GONDOLA
JOSH KEELER IN BUNGY JUMP
JOSH KEELER IN BUNGY JUMP
LAKE WAKATIPU FROM RESTAURANT NEAR GONDOLA
LAKE WAKATIPU FROM RESTAURANT NEAR GONDOLA
JOSH KEELER MAYBE??
JOHN ON RESTAURANT BALCONY
GONDOLA RIDE DOWN MOUNTAIN
Today, is a free day without excursions planned for the entire group. I walked down the hill into the downtown area of Queenstown. I sat in a coffee shop where I purchased internet time to post on my blog. After I used all of my mega-byte time, I walked to the dock where I purchased an hour ride on a Jet Boat. Fourteen of us rode in the jet boat at speeds as fast as eighty-five miles an hour. The jet boat has a flat bottom with no propeller below the bottom of the boat. The jet boat requires only two inches of water beneath it. We traveled on Lake Wakatipu and Shotover River which has a very rocky bottom. Our very skilled driver maneuvered the boat within inches of many different items along the river, turning the boat to skim sideways a number of times, and turning the boat three hundred sixty degrees maybe as many as six times. Needless to say, we received a wet spray a few times. We were each equipped with a hooded rain slicker which helped keep us mostly dry and warm. Many of us chose to ride a gondola to the top of Bob’s Peak for a delicious buffet at the top. This gondola ride is the steepest in the southern hemisphere. One of our tour group members, Josh, chose a bungy jump which we could observe from Bob’s Peak.
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