Amateur radio
My interest in amateur radio stemmed from my father who obtained his callsign, G2FZ, around 1930.  Although I've tinkered around with radios and other bits of electrical gear for more years that I care to think of, my interest in amateur radio only began in a serious way in the mid-Eighties when I got my class B licence which allowed me to transmit on the VHF amateur bands as GW1HQF. Operating on 2 meters was fine but my prime objective was to get on the HF bands as soon as I could and so, with a great deal of help from other amateurs, I learnt morse code on 2 meters.  A couple of years later, I got my class A licence, inherited my late father's call and went on the air as G2FZ. My present call, GM2FZ reflects the fact that I now live in Scotland.  Like my father, I make a lot of my own equipment but my main transceiver is a Yaesu FT101ZD which, despite its age, works perfectly.

Computers
Like radio, this hobby also started when i was more than just a teenager.  Also like radio, I find computers & the way they tick a challenge and, because I dislike being beaten or controlled by what I consider to be a lump of plastic and metal, I tend to spend a considerable amount of time in front of it tinkering around. My target areas are towards programming, web site design and construction, forever trying to find easier and simpler ways of achieving the desired result.  The trouble is that I spend far too much time in front of my PC - very habit forming!
Sailing
This is another hobby I inherited and, although it's not, strictly speaking, sailing (as my boat only has a diesel engine), I do make use of "Saorsa" as much as I can and have explored some of the West Coast of Scotland.  Take a look at my Voyages ~ 1999-2000, Voyages ~ 2001, Voyages ~2002 and Voyages ~2003-2004 pages and trips to other locations are shown in the Voyages ~ The Future page.
Islands
I've always been interested in islands for as long as I can remember.  I don't mean the big ones like Australia or Madagascar or Long Island in the States or even the Isle of Wight in the UK.  The ones I like are tiny and unspoilt with few or no people on them.When I was living in Durban, I spotted a book with a title that attracted my interest.  It was called "An Island To Oneself", written by a man called Tom Neale and had only just been published. Cutting a very long story short, it is about his life on the uninhabited South Pacific atoll of Suvarov in the northern part of the Cook Islands archipelago which I've now read about 24 times.  If you're interested in knowing more, there's a very good website that goes into great detail about Tom, Suvarov and the people who came into his life such as Robert Dean Frisbie, Peb Rockefeller and others.  If you share this interest, take a look for you'll not be disappointed.

I find it quite ironic that I am also now living on a tiny island!