Yeah. And that’s before they feed it its special food.
To tell you the truth, she’s not even that great a rider 
But she wanted it and he figured it was cheaper than therapy 
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Funny! 
Did they buy a brand new truck and trailer to transport the new horse, too? I know how these hobbies can snowball. 
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So we’re probably talking $150-200(possibly more-350 was the most expensive I’ve seen I think) 50lb bags of gut healthy, easy digest sweet grain feeds then huh? Depending on size of horse, 1 bag may last 2-3 days.
(Ex-feed delivery guy, lil brother still does it. Great work out but rough of old injuries)
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Yep. Big dualie. Tricked out nicer than my car.
I expect some of it is overkill and they could do with something less but from the horse shows & competitions I used to work (EMT) there’s some amount of “look at me” going on and serviceable but adequate doesn’t cut it.
I swear she’s really into it because of the way she looks in riding pants and boots
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There’s definitely some status-seeking going there. It happens in every sub-culture. I’ve been involved with jetski racing a long time and for a sport with absolutely no payoff other than enjoying participation, these guys spend insane amounts of money to compete. It’s one thing to toss a jetski into a truck bed and hit the nearby events, but there are guys long-hauling 4 jetskis in 50ft trailers complete with engine shops. They spend maybe $250k or more per year for their effort, they’re not even paid professionals, and to think they’re able to take the time off work to travel for a couple weeks at a time.
Yet, everyone complains about money… LOL.
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I have 2 sets of my own gear
- one for local dives (gets down to 14C at 40m off Sydney at its coldest)
- one for Dive Trips (lightweight BCD and ‘unbreakable’ Regs)
And my Camera Rig (Canon 7D mk II with 100mm & 50mm Macros and 17mm Fisheye all in an Ikelite housing + Ports)
The Camera Rig cost as much as all my other dive gear put together!
And then each trip (usually Sipadan or other sites in Borneo) costs as much as the camera
It is not a cheap hobby but at least once you are set up then (camera housing leaks aside) usually your cost are minimal past that point and we only holiday in places where the diving is good.
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True. My gear is all paid for and except for the drysuit (it’s cold in the waters off New England) not extraordinarily expensive. If I went the rebreather route that would change 
But I never went into the photo thing big time so I don’t have thousands tied up in camera gear. My wife would have a fit (rightfully so) - she says my camera are where photos go to rest in peace because they’re almost never seen again 
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Not to mention the outputs…
Oh man… i could just imagine the wife’s face if i bought a rebreather!
I have a semi-dry wetsuit, it is all we need here… i could use it to sleep outside in winter once the wife kicks me out over the rebreather!
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When we got married it was a mixed marriage so she had to learn to ski and dive (I’m a dive master) and I had to learn to ride (English and western). She never dove dry but I have a Viking dry suit. And for underwater camera I have a classic nikonus V. Took a lot of slide macro shots with that back in the 90s and early 2000s.
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Yay! Scuba brethren.
That’s why the Caribbean is my old friend. Bathtub temps with 100+ vis.
Fortunate to have the MesoAmerican reef 3 hours from Denver, second only to your Great Barrier. Runs from Cozumel near the tip of the Yucatan to Honduras. Live-a-boards will get you 5 dives a day. Great nitrogen dreams! [quote=“bdm, post:67, topic:5987”]
The Camera Rig cost as much as all my other dive gear put together!
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Envious. I could have afforded that with all the $ I spent on my saltwater aquarium. Flooding the gear would be tragic. Wife flooded an expensive Princeton Tectonics depth gauge once.
I used to lament the money we spent for a week, but looking at the pictures, and with the benefit of retrospect… anytime you can take a bag of money and turn it into lifelong memories, it’s well spent
I am a thermal sissy.
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I only keep tropical fish but i always put the Camera and housing in the tank for 20min before a day’s diving so i can check the seals… the fish are a bit confused but they get free rent and food so they don’t complain
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Imagine taking a horse to Argentina 
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On my bucket list. I’m enriched (nitrox) certified too so I can get more dive time but at my age I find it helps prevent some of the fatigue that multiple dives on standard air gives you.
Been awhile since I’ve been down. My dive buddy moved to TX and life has conspired to eat up my trip time 
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Coldest dive I have done was in the Concord river near the Concord River Bridge (where the battle with the british was fought) in February for a hazmat dive (some jackass threw 55gal drums of Tetrafluoroethylene into the river). It was so cold ice was forming on the inside of my dry suit, and unfortunately I had to swap to wet suit as the dry suit was too buoyant in such a shallow body of water, which got us all hypothermia; luckily the EPA come with dive equipped trucks that had hot water tanks…
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Well… THATs just been added to my ‘nope’ bucket list
We have some Hong Kong diving friends who dived Iceland. The images from the dives are otherworldly, crystal clear waters and incredible rock structures. No life though.
This IS on the bucket list
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