Last Day In Hilton Head - Exploring Small Town of Bluffton South Carolina / Hudson’s Seafood House
Hilton Head & Bluffton SC
Transcript
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today's adventure begins with leaves
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falling from the trees
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from this tree and some birdhouses
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as the recording of this it is Thursday
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March 23rd 2023
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the town of Bluffton or someone in the
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backyard has a quite the fire going
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around there you can hear it crackling
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in the distance oh yeah you can see it
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back there
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off in the corner welcome everyone
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out of the woo here still on a family
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vacation at Hilton Head Disney's Hilton
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Head Island Resort my dad and I have
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decided to venture off
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away from the rest of the family mom is
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at the pool my aunt and uncle have gone
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to the beach
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and we are just going to walk around the
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little small town on the outskirts of
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the island Bluffton or bluffington
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Bluffton Bluffton Bluffton that's no
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bluffing
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we have no idea what we're doing here we
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just decided to get off the island but
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we're doing it well
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we passed a little store on the way in
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there's a lot of nostalgia here from
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what we could tell the driving end so we
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parked and we're just gonna hoof it
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around and see what we can find here and
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from there who knows how the rest of the
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day is going to go hoofing around
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Bluffton join us
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shall you
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Ash
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good job
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now neither dad or myself are an expert
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on Bluffton
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thankfully there is this
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guide map tour that we picked up at the
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resort
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in fact Mike the pool guy at Disney's
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Hilton Head Island was very helpful with
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telling us some stuff and Mike gave us
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this so we're all Calhoun Street we're
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on Calhoun Street okay so we just got to
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find the map here on the May River find
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Calhoun Street and then we can just
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figure out what some of the I don't see
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Calhoun there it is oh it's right there
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24 23 22 right there all right
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so we'll just kind of use this as like a
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little way out of the land all right
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just reading off of the information
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this is Pat's brother's house
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Pat's brother's house name for two
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brothers that were from Baltimore that
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moved here and they live right next to
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the Planters Mercantile
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which was that building right there
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so that used to be a Mercantile
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here in town
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yeah it does kind of look like a store
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storefront
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and then this was the brother's house
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they said it was made like two Mirror
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Image Apartments so there's two two
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sections in there there are a lot of art
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galleries out here too
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what is it I was wrong I thought that
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might be wood carvings when we first
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drove by but they're they're not they're
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more stone or
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I got actual sculptures like Mr
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sculpture
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it's like a clay almost yeah like a hard
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clay
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oh no it's metal metal
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makes looks like clay
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and not just the guide map we have but
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there's also a map here that you can
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kind of shows
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with some of the old buildings used to
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look like like Calhoun Street that's
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what we're on right Calhoun yeah we're
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on Calhoun now
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here is the store
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and there's the Bluffton Farmers Market
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so it's just a little information
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placards all over town if you so choose
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to come down here and walk around
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I don't know if this is the name of an
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event or a store name
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a store name
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our street name all right could be a
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yearly event
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the squad The Squat and Gobble
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maybe some kind of a contest
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who do you think the champion Squat and
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gobbler is
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look at all those birds up there
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a lot of them
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Hitchcock
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yeah
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it's all done
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again plenty of information on some of
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the history of this is the Mulligan
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house established 1940. I would have
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guessed it would have been a little
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older than that but circa 1940 according
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to the time
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definitely some really nice architecture
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walking around through here I don't know
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if Hilton had proper like the island
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itself which is you know it took us
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probably 15-20 minutes to drive from the
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resort to here
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yeah probably a half hour with traffic
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and whatnot it's only about 10-15 miles
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I don't know if Hilton Head really has
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like a downtowny kind of area like this
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to us
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at least from
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not that we've seen
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oh so this this right here was the on
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that sign back there this was the store
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that old photo is this building the
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store
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for a painting of some cows do you know
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the difference between a upside down
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horseshoe and a right side up horseshoe
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I really don't one of them is good luck
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and one of them is bad luck yeah I'm
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gonna guess most businesses would
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probably have the good luck horseshoe so
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I'm gonna guess that that would be a
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good luck horseshoe but I really don't
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know for sure
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you know what the King of Hearts means
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the King of Hearts King of Hearts but do
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I know what it means yeah no all right
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another name for this is the people's
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store established 1904 interesting
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though people's is not what spelled like
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people there are people walking down the
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road it's people someone's name p-e-e-p
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-les
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the people store
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and also perfect timing
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classic car truck alert going by over
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there I thought the truck was going to
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drive by here I was going to get a good
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angle of it so that was a fail
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beautiful houses through here
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so my dad was just sharing a little info
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about
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the town name you want to want to give a
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little info here yeah
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most towns that have a ton on the end of
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it like Bluffton is uh over the years
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let's go somewhere quieter
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all right here we go this is Dayton back
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to 1850 Seven Oaks
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so see if you get the farther we walk
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down the road it's getting to be a
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little older
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than the houses and whatnot it's just
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such a beautiful area with the trees
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actually I think it's the Seven Oaks
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Seven Oaks in a pot oh a palm tree yeah
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so you think the reason I got seven okay
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there's seven oak trees in the yard or
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there were back in 1850
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let's see one two three no one two three
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four five
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six
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I thought Oak
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over there Oak
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one two three four five six oh yeah yeah
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it's at least seven or at least I was
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there so it's very common for names like
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Bluffton to have been in the original
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form Bluff town
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and then Through The Years instead of
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being two words Bluff Town it got
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shortened to Bluffton
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properly if you go back on most cities
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that have ton on the end of it that's
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usually the way it turns just like a
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easier way to say the two words yeah
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like Carrollton Carrollton Georgia yeah
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was originally Carrolltown Georgia and
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what is a bluff a bluff is a hill
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overlooking a river we're going to go
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down here to the river in a second the
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May River the May River
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oh look at this that's I guess you could
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say that would be a classic kind of a
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classic car more of a sporty kind of car
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cool one thing I like about all these
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houses is there are date stamps on all
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of them and the historical significance
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but also the date so you got this wrap
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around porch here it was Cottage now
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this church building this is a newer
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extension but dating back to the 1850s
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this is the Church of the Cross this old
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wood building here very beautiful Gothic
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style
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oh it says it right down here 1857.
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the Church of the cross
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right here along the water
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it looks like the doors open over there
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we can go in there
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okay the sign down there the doors open
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it does say
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and they do have worship Services
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that's interesting Saturdays they have
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worship service at 5 28 pm and then
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Sunday is 8 A.M at 10 A.M
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it's an interesting time 5 28 on a
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Saturday
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catches the attention though yeah
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you won't forget that so you'll know
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what time the service starts
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established in 1767 it builds the
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congregation started in 1767. they built
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the church in 1854.
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and it's on the national register of
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historic places I
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it generates it helps your nerves and
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things like that but I was like so the
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construction of this church
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when you look at the outside of this
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church
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okay nothing's been done it was
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whitewashing once uh late 1920s and that
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was it so you'll see when you walk
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so our performance parts were around the
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windows
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but there's also this latch
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on the door which you hardly ever see
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anything like this I grew up in the
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church my dad was a minister for a long
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time regular Church peers don't have
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like a little lock in area quite like
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that that's different
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have you ever seen the ones like that
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that have the lock on them
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this is Northeast like in Boston and the
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old church buildings up there patterns
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seating very similar to that so there's
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a beekeeper here at the building
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so is a Rector like a minister yeah
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The Beekeeper this is either
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this is either an Anglican Church okay
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Episcopal there you go
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I knew it wasn't Catholic but uh anyway
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The Beekeeper yes yes he said there's
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more to the story than he's telling
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really
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that's a Priceless Steinway
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in the mirror
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doing a lot of construction and
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renovations
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keeping all the old buildings in good
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working fashion
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this will be something that'll
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be back on display when it's finished
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really is a beautiful day out of the
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series of days we've been here
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this is probably the nicest warmth wise
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Bluffton showing 73 maybe a high of 79
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of course Hilton Head just down the road
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71.
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so a little cooler on the ocean
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not by much though 73 warmest day that
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we've had swing since you've been in
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this area there's an old store over here
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called the rate
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where they have
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Sundries Cosmetics they sell seal test
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ice cream they have exclusively candies
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tobaccos things like that you see this
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intersection and the road we were just
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on not very busy there's just like
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nothing going on on this road whether
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this gentleman mowing his yard but over
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here this is turning into quite the the
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busy intersection here at the rate
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where they sell different items I don't
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even know if the store's still open but
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pretty cool looking mural here on the
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side and take a look at this like I said
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there's a lot of
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there's a lot going on a lot of
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construction going on and renovating
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going on
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he's a heavy machinery just went by
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they sell Sundries here yes you know
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what a sundry is you know what a sundry
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is I don't
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like a Sunday strawberry Sundries
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chocolate Sundries plain straight
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vanillas what is a sun is it a Sunday
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it's just a general merchandise oh
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merchandise
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okay I thought it was like gonna be like
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a dessert of some sort so a sundry is
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just a name for murdered
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I always thought it was like a Sunday
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interesting Sundries are just general
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merchandise General word for Stuff wow I
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you know I
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various very foolish in my assumption
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all these years
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look up top here they also have
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cosmetics
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uh sodas magazines and evidently this is
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where the manager
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the manager's door
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this is now just used as an office
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they no longer have Sundries
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it's a home care
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48.
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well because you go to a lot of these
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towns and everything's really really run
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down but because of the Bluffton
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historical preservation Society they're
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fixing the whole area up the whole area
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is just completely
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you know being fixed up renovated yeah
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it's great at least houses
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there's a there's a place around here
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called the card house which I think
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might be on this block where a famous
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area of Hilton Head Island was one in a
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card game according to full lore for the
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area see if we can find that again what
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the folklore and legends say
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back in the 1840s there was a guy named
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William
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baynard he won a deed to Braddock's
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Point Plantation
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right here in this private residence
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can't go any further than this but this
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is what some say is the card house
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late night poker games back in the 19th
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century the reason I know that it's on
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the little information here you can see
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the card house listed there
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Circa
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1825 so a piece of Hilton Head history
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happened right behind those shrubs
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in the card house right there
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we have certainly got quite the plethora
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of sounds and noises while we've been
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around here yes it has been quite the uh
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cornucopios now that I say that there's
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no noises
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hush-hush and quiet right now airplane
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the airplane the backing sounds the leaf
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blowers weed eaters so you always hear
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these stories of things you always hear
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this folklore of people who have won
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lots of things in
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playing poker it's always poker has
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anyone ever won anything playing Go Fish
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or Uno remember Uno I do
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I do I don't know of anyone really
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imagine playing tonight
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maybe it's not it doesn't sound as
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impressive
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it's just a little historical tours
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going on all over the place too
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there's a grouping of people over there
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not
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p-e-o-p-l-e but p no that is a people
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spelled like people the store was people
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store p-e-e-p-l
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oh sippin cow Cafe so not tipping a cow
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sipping a cow sipping cow Cafe
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you got the little
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directional arrows here
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showing some of the stuff that's around
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here
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May River Road restaurants
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oh there's a crab
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for that
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we are now in the car to drive around a
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little bit
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this is like a newer area but it's made
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to look vintage looks pretty neat
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through here
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just sipping cow the sipping cow oh
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there it is the sipping cow this traffic
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circle here at Palmetto Bay Road
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usually traffic circles move pretty
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quickly
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I just can't get over
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look Big Ben Parliament
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it's pretty interesting stuff around
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here thinking this might be some sort of
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a sundial perhaps
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yeah maybe not maybe just a piece of
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artwork
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but I recall this from last time I was
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in this neck of the woods
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Charles Fraser
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Charles frasser or Frazier
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sculpture was made in 2010 made of
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bronze
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Charles was known for walking around
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Hilton Head Island with an alligator he
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had a pet alligator so he'd have his
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umbrella
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and then he'd have the alligator right
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down below
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now there's quite a bit of traffic going
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by
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possibly honking at Charles and his pet
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gator do not have a name for the pet
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gator however ah excellent
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the statue is based on the photograph of
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Charles E Fraser as it appeared in a
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1962 edition of Saturday evening post
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on quote people on the way up unquote
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to celebrate image caused a media
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sensation and awarded the Sea Pines
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Resort National Acclaim it is a gift
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from the Community Foundation of the Low
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Country Town of Hilton Head Island
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dedicated back in 2010
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so there is a photo of him with his
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umbrella Charles with his umbrella walk
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in the gator
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right there at the light
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Hilton Head Island
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Fire Department
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oh fire truck
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some lily pads here toadstools
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a soft frog on here but it hopped off
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where I could walk over
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it may have been a lizard
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I'm now gonna head over to the Hilton
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Head rear range lighthouse
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over here which has this information
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tells you to go and it's in a
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neighborhood where you can request a
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lighthouse pass
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so that's where we're heading
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we're heading over there now I have now
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got my pass
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for the day
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restricted pass to get to this
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neighborhood to see the White House now
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there's not really a lot of parking
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around here you would be inclined like I
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was to park
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on the grass over here
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however thanks to one of the local
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residents that you can't park on the
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grass I didn't see the sign
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but he said that you could park on the
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road
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it's legal so I parked on the road
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directly behind me
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it's a little bit of a chore to get back
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here you have to go through a couple
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different
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couple different checkpoints you have to
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let them know what you're doing you have
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to have the proper credentials they will
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give you the credentials
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just by asking
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we had the pamphlet and we just showed
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the pamphlet at both the different two
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stations on the way in all checkpoints
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and they're good okay they give us the
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paperwork rear Lighthouse of Hilton Head
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range light station was built in 1879 in
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the 1880
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stood 92 feet above sea level visible
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from 15 miles away
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right in front of the lighthouse is one
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of the oldest live oak trees on the
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island
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estimated between 430 and 450
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years old and that live oak tree
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is this one right here
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over 400 years old this tree
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beautiful people out here playing golf
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as well
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it states here on the side of that
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information about that tree
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feature on National British historic
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places back in 18 I'm sorry 1985. the
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lighthouse itself not the tree
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oh take a look at this
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here is something about the cistern and
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the Live Oak
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the Livingston Live Oak which is the
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neighborhood we're in it's as close to
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the lighthouse a magnificent backdrop
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for the 15th green of Arthur Hills
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Golf Course right over there Arthur
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Hills Golf Course
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whenever I see a golf course I think of
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falling down with Michael Douglas with
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the diameter of the tree 70 feet tall
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and a canopy spreads across 150 feet the
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cistern was built alongside the oil
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house
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and holds are used to hold 3500
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there's no easy task getting back here
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was it no sir it wasn't checkpoints and
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some walking and some no parking and
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some parking I've noticed Hilton Head
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you have to really want to get into
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certain areas because every place has
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like little guard shacks and whatnot
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every time I think about a lighthouse I
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think about that sailor that was out on
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the sea and his captain called up to him
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and says do you see the lighthouse do
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you see the light on the lighthouse
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said yes yes no
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nice decommissioned back in 1932. now no
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elevators
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to get to the top this has a hundred and
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twelve steps spiral staircase leads to a
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Cypress watchroom fitted with a
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reflector light or Mickey Rooney
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well I know Mickey Rooney what's up a
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lighthouse or Pete's Dragon but I wonder
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if he went to Lighthouse at any other
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times in his life you know being lumpy
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and all
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the legend of the oil house evidently
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the Lighthouse Keeper passed on
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had a heart attack bringing oil to the
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tower during her oh I remember this from
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last time
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so after noticing an absence the
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Keeper's daughter Caroline discovered
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what happened to his father several days
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Caroline walked through hit deep Waters
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replenisha Towers oil and then she
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passed away several days later due to
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exhaustions sightings of the lady in
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blue dress have been reported
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on dark rainy nights
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wow what year was that
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I don't see a year constructed in 82.
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I don't see a year about the
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the lady in blue
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forgot about that story it's pretty
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interesting
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it'll be pretty interesting out here
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playing golf I would imagine maybe she
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appears at night probably not people out
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here playing golf at night
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but imagine being out here next to the
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lighthouse seeing the lighthouse
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Keeper's daughter
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the lady in blue whoa that is misting
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right on me
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the wind is blowing up
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sprinkler right over my direction
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the lady in blue not to be confused with
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the lady in red which is Gene Wilder
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movie
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had nothing to do with Lighthouse as far
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as I can remember
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pine cones all right heading back to the
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a little more family time see if my
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Mama's back out of the pool man I'll go
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back from the beach I think we'll go to
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dinner a little bit later
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and just kind of relax a little bit more
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throughout the course of the afternoon
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and now gonna head over to a seafood
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restaurant I've heard good things about
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we're gonna get a little Seafood action
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now there are a couple different
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restaurants in this little area there's
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Skull Creek Dockside but down here down
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this little pathway right on the water
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a place called Hudson Seafood
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right on the water
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yeah before walking down there of course
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the parking situation down here is
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pretty small but back where we just
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where it was a huge parking area
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they have the menus here
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obviously it's dinner time
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oh here we go so dinner starts at 4 30.
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and here's the dinner menu
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there's a lunch menu and a dinner menu
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it's about 5 p.m right now
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and No Reservations this first come
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first serve I called reservation they
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said don't just first come first serve
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but I know
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from what I've heard it gets pretty busy
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yeah it looks like they're
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a little signage and mascot is a mermaid
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up there yeah right up there here's a
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mermaid saying come on in get some
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seafood
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I think we will and the Sun is like just
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about to start setting open daily lunch
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at 11 and dinner at five
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I thought this was like a local paper
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but in fact when you open it up it is
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the menu
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and the napkin is basically on a blue
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washcloth like this and they get instead
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of bringing you like you know they're
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bringing like an appetizer they bring
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you like some Hush Puppies here that are
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complimentary with the with the meal
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right and then you got the rice with the
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tartar sauce over here
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all right so I have to say the service
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was very very quick this food came out
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so quickly I ended up getting a crab
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cake over here I got a crab cake a
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little bit of garnishing over there I
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got some uh broccoli on this I ended up
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getting the flounder okay I got the
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fries
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right
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like Mom got the pasta salad or the uh
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the uh the pasta shrimp pasta I ended up
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getting the we're gonna be getting the
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kind of Coca-Cola but the Coca-Cola was
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like a little flat it was uh it was not
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carbonated right my mom said try the
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sweet tea sweet tea is pretty good so we
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have the sweet tea and it's pretty
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awesome but I got the sweet tea much
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better than the Coca-Cola I have to say
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it was thoroughly impressed with that
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place and I wasn't even gonna eat the
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baked potato because it was so full I
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took a bite or two just so like they
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wouldn't be like how come you didn't
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fish or eat your baked potato the baked
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potato was like one of the best things
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I've ever had they had like a sea salt
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flavor on the on the Rind of the potato
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on the skin of the potato man that was
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awesome anyway I was like really
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impossible Hudson's and back now to the
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resort that's gonna do it for today also
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this is the last day of staying here it
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was kind of a fun family vacation and
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we'll be heading out of South Carolina
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tomorrow and going back
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to Florida back back home for
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a little bit well you know sitting here
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tonight into tomorrow but this is the
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last full day I guess I should have said
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this is the last full day
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of the series of days here in Hilton
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Head South Carolina here at the Disney
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Hilton Head Resort it's been fun see you
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the next video thanks for watching the
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Vlog
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is over I just cannot get over how
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beautiful these trees are here at this
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Resort it's just like oak trees
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everywhere it's like a canopy of tree
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leaves
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here on this island