Recreation & Sports
563 sites
Subcategories:
- Gardening (38)
- Hobbies (110)
- Sports (15)
- Travel (59)
- Outdoors (36)
- Collecting (166)
- Model Building (139)
https://mooseyscountrygarden.com/
Moosey's Country Garden is a richly detailed personal gardening site chronicling the plants, garden areas, and seasonal journals of a New Zealand country garden. Visitors can explore named garden sections like the Wattle Woods and Island Border, browse plant guides for roses, camellias, and rhododendrons, and follow along with the creator's ongoing gardening adventures.
http://toastermuseum.com/
Toastermuseum.com, run by Jens Veerbeck, bills itself as the world's largest online toaster exhibition, showcasing a remarkable personal collection of antique and vintage toasters from brands like General Electric, Edison, AEG, and the rare Toast-O-Lator. Visitors can browse the full collection, learn about extraordinarily valuable specimens, and get a sense of what drives someone to amass hundreds of these humble kitchen appliances.
https://taprk.org/
The Tapiola Parish Model Railway Club (TaPRK) is a Finnish club based in Tapiola that builds and displays model railway layouts at national exhibitions and events. The bilingual site covers club layouts, projects, shows, and excursions, with highlights including participation in FREMO-FIN layouts and joint Christmas exhibitions with the Railway Museum in Helsinki.
http://davestravelcorner.com/links/blogs-of-travel
Dave's Travel Corner hosts what it claims to be the ultimate travel blog directory on the web, with over 4,000 travel blogs listed and organized across 197 categories. Created by Dave after a life-changing 1996 trip, the site curates domain-based English-language travel blogs with editor priorities, view counts, and personal notes about connections Dave has made with fellow travelers.
https://blaine-reed-meteorites.blogspot.com/
Blaine Reed, a Colorado-based meteorite dealer, runs this long-running sales catalog blog featuring numbered lists of meteorites available for purchase, including carbonaceous chondrites, pallasites, and iron meteorites. Each post reads like a personal letter to collectors, complete with show schedules, Tucson gem show updates, and detailed specimen descriptions that make it a genuine resource for serious meteorite enthusiasts.
http://voltraweb.be/
VOLTRAWEB is a Belgian volleyball resource site built for and by trainers, coaches, players, and club officials, maintained by webmaster Wilfried Van Mol. Visitors will find training exercises, conditioning tips, competition results and standings, coaching courses, international rules, and links to live streams and podcasts covering Belgian and global volleyball.
http://pwrr.org/
The Piedmont and Western Railroad Club, based in Valdese, North Carolina, maintains both an active model railroad layout and the Old Rock School Railway Museum, offering a rich blend of hobbyist and historical railroad content. Visitors can explore prototype images of North Carolina railroads, steam locomotive carvings, narrow gauge car restorations, and resources like railroad station directories covering hundreds of cities and towns.
http://asiaphoto.de/
Bernhard Heiser's Asiaphoto chronicles backpacking adventures across Southeast Asia and South Asia, covering Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Burma, Indonesia, and India with detailed travelogues, travel tips, and extensive photo galleries. The site has been running since 2000 and offers both practical travel information and vivid photographic documentation of destinations like Phuket, Bangkok, Mandalay, and Rajasthan.
http://okanagan.net/ocarc
A detailed site covering the history and present-day rail activities in Kelowna, British Columbia, including CN, CP, the Kettle Valley Railway, barge services, and industries served by rail. It also touches on amateur radio and APRS packet radio through the Orchard City Amateur Radio Club, making it a rich resource for both railfans and ham radio enthusiasts in the Okanagan region.
https://champagneonice-ivil.tripod.com/
A massive personal collection of over 1500 animated blinkies, the tiny glittering GIF images beloved in early web culture, organized across dozens of themed pages covering everything from animals and food to seasonal and attitude blinkies. Built by a self-described blinkie addict, this site is a nostalgic treasure trove of old-web graphics culture with categories like 'Mega Blinkies,' 'Blinkie Shapes,' and 'Movie & Television.'