Frisco Canyon Heli-raft
Departs Greymouth & Hokitika
Helicopter and rafting grade 4 combo. This is a half day adventure (5 hours) for those with average fitness who want some challenge but within your comfort zone.
Awesome wilderness granite gorges with the rafting a little more relaxed than the grade 5 above. It's still serious whitewater but you get a chance to have a breather now and again. You'll feel the excitement of a helicopter trip in a smaller machine (smaller as we need to land in the gorge) and then raft back out of the mountains through three awesome gorges down the Hokitika River. Helicopter flight time averages 6 minutes during which you cover a lot of country.
You'll raft 1 grade 5, 2 grade 4, and 16 grade 3 rapids with some flat drift sections through a stunning gorge. You can walk around some of the rapids if you wish. Your trip includes 3 hours on river rafting time..jpg)
Your raft trip cost includes all equipment, transport to and from the river with pick up in Greymouth or Hokitika, helicopter flight, rafting adventure, lunch on the river and a $12 6x4 fun souvenir photo of you on your trip.
Remember that rafting on the South Island's West Coast is wilderness rafting. You are not likely to see anyone else and once you start the trip you are committed as the only way out is on the river. Most of the larger rapids we will all get out of the rafts and inspect them to plan our way down and for you to check & be sure you want to raft it. There may some rapids that are portaged if the water levels on the day mean they are too dangerous.
Once you have booked a particular grade of river we reserve the right to change the actual river rafted if we feel that conditions on the day means a different river will give you a better or safer experience. For example, after heavy rain a normally grade 5 river may be to dangerous to raft or it maybe so high that all the rapids are washed out and are no fun, but a normally grade 4 river will be running at a grade 5 so it gives a great grade 5 trip for a few days until its level returns to normal.
Departs Greymouth 7:30 am or Hokitika 8:00am
Cancellations: Once you are booked, if you do not turn up or if some-one in your group does not go then the credit card you use to make your booking is charged in full. So you need to be sure everyone does want to go. You can cancel outside of 7 days and there is no charge. We advise you to take out travel insurance.
PLUS...To make sure you really are getting good value, we will give you a voucher for discounts & free stuff at places around the West Coast. You can pick up an absolutely FREE Big Mac, FREE Email, FREE Goldpanning at Shantytown, a FREE Beer/wine, a FREE Dessert at a local restaurant with your meal, discount hostel beds & heaps of other stuff. Worth up to $428. Click here for more info on our West Coast Bonus Saver Pass.
