Remote Adventures promotes the Bay via new Kapiti Coast flights
Beach FM sales consultant Jackie Knight, and Jim Larsen from Remote Adventures just before Jackie flew home. Photo: Neil Wilson.
Visitors to the Bay from the Kapiti Coast may become more prevalent if Jim Larsen from Remote Adventures has anything to do with it.
Last weekend Jim flew two representatives of Beach FM, a radio station in Paraparaumu, to the Bay to publicise his plan to run a service between Paraparaumu and Golden Bay.
Jackie Knight, a sales consultant at Beach FM, had not been to Golden Bay before and she said she was enchanted by her experiences here.
“You have to see this place to believe it,” she said. “It’s amazing that this tranquility and beauty is just an hour from our homes on the Kapiti Coast.”
Jim took his guests to Karamea for Saturday night and delivered them to representatives of the Golden Bay Promotions Association on Sunday morning. Paddy Gillooly and Allan Kilgour took good care of them, said Jim.
“They went to Te Waikoropupu Springs and then out scalloping with Allan.”
Paddy said that he had the chance to talk to Jackie about the promotions association and some of the more famous attractions in the Bay.
“It was nice to be able to explain some of the great things visitors like to do while we took a bit of a stroll around the springs,” said Paddy. “When Jackie gets back to work in Paraparaumu, her radio station is going to have a phone-in competition and the winners will get to fly to the Bay with Jim and have a holiday here. Some of the members of the Golden Bay Promotions Association donate products and services that we keep aside for this kind of promotion. We’ll be able to offer the winners a really nice Golden Bay experience, including accommodation, meals and interesting things to do. It’s all part of promoting the Bay to visitors from other parts of New Zealand. If it’s successful, everyone benefits.”
Jim’s plan is to market Remote Adventures’ flights to Golden Bay, and the Bay as a destination, through Beach FM.
“I can bring parties of five at a time to walk the Heaphy Track or just to holiday in Golden Bay,” he said. “It’s very cost-effective for people from the Kapiti Coast too. My Cessna 185 is ideal for sight-seeing flights and for short runways like the one at my Brown Hut airstrip.”
Neil Wilson
