Music Play flute, Keyboard, guitar and bass. Do African and Middle eastern hand drumming in a few ensembles. Have a handful of vintage analog synthesisers and basic recoding set up. I also have a wide variety of tastes to listen too from Beethoven to contemporary Electronic.
Gliding Took up flying again three years ago after a 15 year break since my last hang-glider crash. Sailplanes are the ultimate toy for the closet speed freak.
Optics Reading about and tinkering with materials that bend and reflect light has always been a passion since I donned my first pair of spectacles at age 11
Bushwalking I try to walk around my area Berowra as often as time permits. Like to mountain bike on fire trails some times.
Kayaking I have some estuary kayaks and occasionally enjoy the Berowra waters area.
German Shepherds My two long haired shepherds Holly and Raj teach me so much about simple joys and keep me down to earth.
Chess Rediscovered after 30 years break and theres always a game available on line 24/7.
Fractals I've been exploring the
Mandlebrot set at an artistic level for years and am stock piling my dicoveries of `
mandala-like' dendrite fractals deep within. Though I am not religious in a traditional sense, I find the presence of these natural objects through chaos mathematics , with parallels to religious icons in Buddhist and other religions, deeply mysterious.
I'm going to create a web site for them and maybe a coffee table book.
See
here for my newest discovery .
Like anybody, many secondary interests but ( beside Astronomy ) these are the things I'm most passionate about.