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The GreAYt Outdoors

irishgayguy1981 · 2005-05-20 14:48:10

Well, like many gay men I'm not one for sports as such, I hate any sport involving a ball. However I do like the outdoors, I love hiking and hill climbing and the scenery in Ireland and I rather like the idea of scuba diving. There is a gay scuba diving club in the UK and alot of other countries too, I discovered, and I…

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20-05-2005 3:48pm

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Well, like many gay men I'm not one for sports as such, I hate any sport involving a ball. However I do like the outdoors, I love hiking and hill climbing and the scenery in Ireland and I rather like the idea of scuba diving.

There is a gay scuba diving club in the UK and alot of other countries too, I discovered, and I just wonder are there any/many other gay people out there who would be interested in it. I mean going deep under water is something you want to be doing with people your comfortable with and trust and yes I know it's my own insecurities etc but I would not feel comfortable joining one of the Irish scuba diving clubs, because undoubtedly the majority of fellas will be macho...

So what is there in this country for gay guys outside of the pub culture and the scene??? I'm not saying anything about the scene or pub culture, we're alot further on than a few years ago... anyway would love to hear what ye'all think...

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#2 20-05-2005 4:21pm
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I wouldn't be interested in scuba diving but certainly some manner of club off of the scene would make a welcome change of pace.

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#3 20-05-2005 5:12pm
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There's the Rainbow Ramblers down in Cork.

Not sure about Dublin, but I'm sure you'll find something in the listings.

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#4 20-05-2005 5:21pm
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I wouldn't think scuba diving is that macho tbh. My dad was very heavily involved with scuba diving in Ireland, even to the extent of running the country's main scuba diving club, and he's not the "rarrr" macho sort either. Maybe give it a shot!

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#5 20-05-2005 5:47pm
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Lots of girls involved in scuba diving, and Amnesiac_ie from these boards is into scuba diving.

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#6 20-05-2005 6:00pm
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Check out the Scuba forum also:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=344

Boards also has an Outdoors Pursuits board:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=430

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#7 21-05-2005 1:50pm
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Walking/hiking group based in Dublin

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