-Travelling/experiencing different lifestyles, cultures, people...surroundings, ideas, foods, can be overseas, interstate and local. Some of the sweetest things have been closeby and seem to keep rediscovering stuff..it's the strangest thing.
-Equine pursuits-training, breeding, racing, educating, across the two major codes, standardbred and thoroughbred. That is in my blood. I have horse blood flowing through my veins. Shared with Mr OO.
-Working dog involvement. Breeding/training/competition/charity/business, I may have horse blood, but I have a canine's brain. Anything to do with animals. Always have been a passion of mine, always will.
-Rock and mountain climbing. Can be overseas, interstate climbs or relatively local, some of my favorites are Grampians/Gariwerd and Mt Arapiles/Tooan, especially Mt Arapiles/Tooan State Park:
http://www.chockstone.org/Arapiles/Arapiles.htm
What can I say about Arapiles that hasn't already been said a thousand times before? Very little I fear! Many a would-be writer has waxed lyrical about the magic of Victoria's climbing Mecca, the premier destination, possibly the very the heart and soul of traditional climbing in Australia. Too much? Okay, so we all know it's the bee's knee's, that it fills the dreams of climbers world wide, inspires many a new comer
-When possible I like to be on my own, (climbing), which isn't always the most sensible thing, but as independent and on my own as possible. It is my meditation.
-Music, piano, songwriting, acoustic guitar ...feeble attempts at drums, isn't going to happen anytime soon, like trying to jump from swirling mass of color and emotion to black and white maths.
-Sport, I love to kick the football with family, for some reason that is so much fun. Hockey. Always love a belt around with hockey girls, you get to run a bit. If they stick you out on the wing.
I love cross country running...but I tend to get lost on it.
-Hiking.
-Scuba diving on barrier reef/boating and sailing. I love to go out on fishing boats (sea) and catch crays and fish. Proper fishing boats, not the hire jobs..I have great sealegs. I love the ocean.
-Property
I love learning about property, looking for property, researching property, buying property, (minorish) renovations of property, renting property...I love building, I love mortgage documents, I love banks. It's fun.
-Motor bikes, introduced from my brother, shared now with Mr OO, and it's fun. Cross country rag tag stuff and road biking.
-Reading, can be internet, can be libraries, or other varied stuff, too much to mention.
-Self development/education.
-Music concerts.
-Science, I love the science shows, archeology, history, museums...all that. Architecture.
-Photography, the kind where you do it for yourself, wander off with camera, notso much people, but scenery, animals, sunsets/sunrises....
-I watercolor paint.
-Genealogy
-Surfing and windsurfing, basic, not fancy skill level.
-I love to cook. Growing my own produce. My rockmelons are fabulous.
-Writing poetry and stuff.
That's just a few things off the top of my head.