What Would You Put on Your Bucket List
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Back in 2009 Leanne and I went along to the movies to see a film called
The Bucket List starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman. The main plot follows two terminally ill men (portrayed by Nicholson and Freeman) on their road trip with a wish list of things to do before they "kick the bucket."
It was a brilliant and very funny movie that made me think about what I would put on a bucket list, and no, it was not because I thought that I was going to "kick the bucket".
People who know me would think that most of the things that I would put on my bucket list would be to do with fishing. But after thinking about the things that I would like to do I decided not all of them involved fishing.
So, in no particular order I am going to put together a list of 40 things that I would like to do after watching the movie,
The Bucket List. As you will see as you read on there are a number of things on my bucket list that I have already done, but would love to do again.
Maybe you have some other suggestions that I may like to do in the coming years or somewhere you have been that I might think about adding to my bucket list to bring it up to 50 things.
1. Go on a fishing only trip to Weipa with
Scotty Lyons from Southern Sydney Fishing Tours. This is planned for May 2016.
2. Learn how to play
golf properly. I have started to improve after a couple of lessons and a few hundred balls at a driving range.
3. Drive a
V8 car at Eastern Creek.
4. Get my wife to climb the
Sydney Harbour Bridge. This is going to be a very hard one as Leanne doesn't like heights. Might have to change this on.!
5. See if I can
ride a surf board again as I used to do it up until I was about 34 years old.
6. Learn how to
cook seafood properly in New Zealand. I have done this once but I think that I need to do it again.
7. Buy a new mower or learn how to
fix things properly when working with metals. I used to be a carpenter.
8. Go to
Ireland with Leanne and do a self drive around for a couple of weeks.
9. Have a go at
flying a plane.
10. Win a
go-kart race and not come second, third or last.
11. Get a
bigger boat so that I can fish outside as well as inshore.
12. Learn how to
water ski. Maybe I am past this one.
13. Fly to South Australia and spend a week on
Kangaroo Island.
14. Swim in a
shark cage.
15.
Learn how to be a better photographer.
16. Fly to Perth and drive to
Margaret River and sample some of their great wines. While there check out some of the places where my relatives used to live.
17.
Catch a bone fish.
18. Sit by the beach on
Rarotonga Island in the Cook Islands and drink a cocktail while watching the sun set over the water.
19.
Meet Dynamo.
20. Go to
Ayers Rock for a couple of days. This is only because Leanne would like to go and I guess it would be great, even though there is no fishing.
21. Write a
new book on what else, but fishing. This one is in the pipeline.
22. Visit the
Don Bradman Museum at Bowral.
23. Ride in a
steam train.
24. Have a go at white water rafting at the
Penrith White Water Course.
25. Face an over off spin bowler
Nathan Lyon the Australia Cricketer.
26. Re-visit Broome and just go fishing for a week. Sure, I had a brilliant time when I was last up in
the Kimberley's , but it would be great to just go fishing for a few days.
27. Make an
ABT Grand Final as a boater. I have already made it as a non-boater.
28. Visit both the north and south islands of
New Zealand and write about our trip.
29. Go back to
Tasmania and see the things that I haven't seen. It was 31 years ago when we went.
30.
Star in a commercial. It would have to be about fishing, of course.
31.
Go on a ghost tour.
32.
Learn how to paint.
33. Eat at a high quality
Japanese Restaurant. in Japan.
34. Go to the
horse races. I have been to the trots and dogs, but never a horse race.
35. Visit
Crooked River Winery on the south coast of NSW and try their wines.
36. Own a
tackle shop. It may be on my bucket list, but this will never happen. When would I get to go fishing? Maybe I could work part-time in one?
37. Fly to
Darwin for a holiday and of course fit in some fishing.
38. Holiday in somewhere in the
Fiji Islands where we had our honeymoon.
39. Feed the penguins at the
Melbourne Aquarium.
40. Do an
advanced driver training course.
If you have any suggestions of what I could add to my list please let me know.
Maybe you don't have one yet and would like to start one.
As someone said, "You will never never know until you go".
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