What are your other hobbies?

[Drew Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close Drew]

I thought it might be interesting to have a thread on what else we all do to pass the time apart from four wheel driving and vehicle modifying.

I always joke that I have way too many hobbies and not enough time and that I'm always looking for another hobby to fill those idle hours between 2am and 4am.

My main other hobby at the moment is flying, I'm about half way through my Private Pilot's Licence training. It's great fun and it's something I've always wanted to do but could never afford. I think there are a couple of other fellow pradopointers who fly also, John and steve_120.

My other hobbies are travelling, four wheel driving and camping (obviously), amateur radio and electronics, photography, radio controlled aircraft, gardening, I play the drums also. I want to learn piano but I'm waiting till my daughter is older so we can learn together. I might even sell the drum kit.

Does shopping for bits for the 120 count as a hobby? :lol:

I'm coming to the end of my Electrical Engineering studies also, but that's not a hobby as such. Calculus as a hobby? No thank you. :lol:

I don't know if this counts as a hobby, but I love Aussie Rules footy - my wife is even more footy mad than I am!

So, what keeps your brain ticking along?

Drew.

[slug Member Find all posts View Profile Close slug]

Great idea Drew! A great way to get to know the others hanging around here.
After being married a month i can now quite happily claim wedding preparations ARE NOT one of my hobbies! I have camped for much of my life, which is part of the reason i got a four wheel drive, just to get to some places others cant to have a bit of peave and quiet. Fishing would then have to be on the list, once again the prado comes into play a bit there.
Home brew seems to keep me off the streets too, making and consuming ofcourse.

I grew up in NSW and QLD so im a fan of rugby myself, league or union, living in Victoria i take what i can get!

[DarkHorse Member Find all posts View Profile Close DarkHorse]

Hey Drew,

Hows the PPL going? Where are you learning? I have been flying now for 13 years ( I am 34 ) and hold an ATPL and operate B737 with Virgin Blue. Look forward to doing some "private" flying again some day. Looking at getting my Heli licence.............. one day.

I used to have radio control planes and helicopters.

Build and service computers on the side as well, more as a hobby than anything else.

Love fishing, especially when I was in the NT.

Otherwise new to 4WD and camping as a family.

Regards,


Rob

[HGMonaro Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close HGMonaro]

4Wding is not a hobby (although it may become one) and I have done a fair amount of fishing in the Vic high country which involved a 4WD to get there. We bought a wind-up camper for a upcoming round Oz jaunt and decided our Subi Outback probably wasn't quite up to the task of tugging it around (specs wise it was but I like a bit in reserve) and ended up with a Prado and hence, here in search of info! Nothing specific, doesn't hurt to know 'things' though. I'm the (happy) owner of a Scangauge II due to this site! Have built a false floor and 1/2 way thru making a 'mono-flap' (which I would have posted pics for but just haven't had time). Might be best to see if they survive the trip before I go doing that though

Having done a few test-trips, we are looking forward to more holidaying in this manner, as there's just so many interesting places out there.

Hobbies include fishing (not that I get to go ever!), a happy marriage (amazing due to 1st point) and our sons. Major hobby is photography, mostly B&W processed and printed in my darkroom. Would love to take my Large format camera on trip but will be no time for using that!

Cheers, Nige

[Matt Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Matt]

im renovating my house atm..

and i partake in online computer gaming... playing Battlefield 2. part of a team that plays against other teams and such each week.

[syco8 Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close syco8]

My main hobby is fishing around here and when i can i also like to go shooting for wild pigs out west, and also the kids :lol:

[waifamily Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close waifamily]

i spec build houses as a hobbie but also do claybird shooting monthly and when the wind is up i blokart.

Apart from that im busy with my 3 kids

[embi Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close embi]

Geocaching

[PeteS Member Find all posts View Profile Close PeteS]

My hobbies eh! Well i'm a bit of a workaholic and I travel a long way to work & back each day so my free hours are limited.
Hobbies (+ things I enjoy doing) -------
1) I average 3 hours a day travel so one of my hobbies is have a digital scanner to seek frequencies and also listen to air traffic, police, ambos, fire etc.
2) Now have my new UHF to take add to the listening choices while travelling
3) Converting & collecting music in mp3 format
4) Listening to mp3 podcasts of various radio programs etc
5) My Prado is certainly taken a lot of my spare time so it has to be a BIG hobby for me now
6) We are soon to get an off road van so that will lead to another 'hobby?'

Best of all my wife and I want to start travelling again. Especially with our new setup and that WILL BE a good hobby. Just love that campfire.
PeteS

[DaveNQ1 Lurker Find all posts View Profile Close DaveNQ1]

Hobbies.
Just getting out of town with the family, and shooting or social trips with old footy mates.

[Chippy Addicted PP Member Find all posts View Profile Close Chippy]

I've always loved camping. My wife and I were heading off in a variety of tents and vehicles from when we first met. Our honeymoon was spent touring the south west of WA with all the camping gear packed in the back of an XB Falcon sedan.

When the kids came along it meant taking more stuff so we had to start with a range of trailers. Now the kids are a bit bigger we have finally got the camper trailer and - of course - the Prado to drag it around.

The Prado has created another hobby - I never had a mechano set as a kit - now I've got a great big expensive one.

I enjoy mucking around with computers and electronic gadgets. I used to run a part time business as an IT techie until the WA Education Department put the kybosh on employees having other lives - it's called conflict of interest. Now I have put together another business running a gymnastics academy and love the time I spend coaching kids.

But the most rewarding hobby is helping my boys to grow up. The Prado and the CT are my main tools now as I aim to get the boys away from MSN and telly - replacing it with bush tracks, amazing scenery and a love of our country.(Man, that sound so corny I even started to believe it :lol: ).

Cheers
Chippy

[Warby Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Warby]

Camping, chasing a little white ball,and Campimg.

[Warby Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Warby]

Did you pick my mistake

[McBAIN Avid PP Poster! Find all posts View Profile Close McBAIN]

Did you pick my mistake

i figured after the vb and the bundy that the second camping was pretty close to the way it should be..... throw in a few more and it may upgrade to "cambling"

[McBAIN Avid PP Poster! Find all posts View Profile Close McBAIN]

other than dreaming of getting out and getting the prado dirty (it doesn't happen even remotly close to a quarter of how much i'd like it to!)

i loose most of my time working on the house, renovating, painting, pulling down walls, building cupboards, moving kitchens... all that sort of crap in an attempt to turn it into a livable space for about 8 weeks from now when my hobbies will most likely be re-alligned around the impending inclusion of mini me to the family.


other than that, photography, and generally waisting hours and hours and hours pissfarting around with computers and the internet. I've got a business with a mate of mine that we primarily set up to buy cheep stuff for mates and ourselves, occasionally make small bits of money out of it... and one of these days will try fire it up selling stuff on ebay. but just never had the time!

one goal in the shorter term is to buy an old Mini and restore it. but that's further down the track i think!