A Full Day At Wild Florida - Airboat Tour & Gator Park In Swamps / Drive Thru Safari Experience
Wild Florida December 2022
Transcript
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welcome everyone Adam the Wu here has a
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recording of his Thursday December 22nd
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2022 behind me wild Florida
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which I'm going to be going on an
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airboat today I will be going through a
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Gator Park and I will be going through a
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wild safari out here a little bit north
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of Saint Cloud Florida my sister and her
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husband are with me as well
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most likely my sister will get behind
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the wheel of my car and drive while I
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film out the window for the Safari and
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then we are all going to board an
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airboat and do a one hour
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Gilligan's Island was a three-hour tour
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this is a one-hour tour
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so we should be good
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I was here I believe on opening day
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maybe three or four don't quote me on
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this I think it was three or four years
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ago when this place first opened and all
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it was if I recall correctly was the
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safari park I'm gonna see if more
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animals have been added and do something
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I've never done
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the Airboat here I've done airboats
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before but I've never done it here and
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the Gator Park join me
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shall you this is an ant bed right here
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I think that's an ant bed
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oh yeah look at that
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whoo
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look at that right there that's an ant
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bed
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I don't want to stir them up too much I
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think I
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think I poked the bear if you will
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I don't think those are fire ants do I
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have any on here I don't definitely
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don't want to put this around my ear
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yeah I don't think there's any on there
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fire Anthony could jump Barney do I got
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any on me it's currently 11 30 a.m right
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now 12 30 or 12 35 I believe is the
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airboat ride so we have an hour I would
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imagine that's enough time to go through
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the wild Florida
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Safari gonna check in the gift shop and
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just ask if that's going to be okay you
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check in over here he could purchase a
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ticket I purchased them online got the
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QR code and then we're going to drive
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through here
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as stated I'm gonna get in the passenger
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seat my sister's gonna get behind the
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wheel so I can document this properly
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after asking they said it takes about an
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hour and a half give or take to drive
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through the wild Florida Safari Park
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section of it so it probably makes more
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sense to go ahead and go to the Gator
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Park first come back to this after we do
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the Airboat you know just to just better
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safe than sorry so we're gonna do that
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stop off here and then go over and go to
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the Gator Park check in so we have to
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check in over at the Airboat so we'll do
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that it will do this last after the
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Airboat and the Gator Park this is the
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way the Airboat Rides so right there on
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the side of that fence
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I don't believe do you remember if this
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was open we were out here a few years
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ago five uh we just went through the
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Savari and we didn't ride the Airboat so
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I'm not sure I don't think the Gator
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Park I don't yeah I think this is all
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new
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wild Florida entrance
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oh there's some alligators crawling up
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the side of that wall right there
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bring up the side of that wall
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I can hear the airboats from here
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the front entrance someone on the golf
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cart here
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this is where you check in over here
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so if you want to do any of the events
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you have to show up to the check-in area
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and I'll just show the QR code and all
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that look down here they have WF
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standing for wild Florida and the brick
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down here that's like a little Jaws
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spoof right there that's a sloth they
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also have a sloth experience how much is
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a sloth experience we're not doing the
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sloth experience for 220 dollars to hold
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the sloth 220 is that true okay
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okay we'll do everything but the sloth
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experience here is a general layout of
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the land they call it a legend here
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which is basically a guide map here are
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the shows that they have at the Gator
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Park they said we do not have enough
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time to get back over and do the Safari
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they're stating it takes an hour and a
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half 90 minutes the last car is allowed
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through at 4 30. they have inscribed
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everything on there and we have to be at
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10 minutes early so at 12 25 we have to
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get over to our area to ride the air
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boat see what the backside says if
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anything says around the back oh no it's
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just basically advertisement here on the
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phone this was made out of bronze I
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believe
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it looks like down here in the Gator's
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mouth had some sort of like a tube or
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something maybe emitted water
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so we got a little bit of time so we're
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gonna walk through the gator Adventure
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Park Nature Park
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the gator Nature Park straight ahead
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over here
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how's it look
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you serving this up yeah
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there's meatballs oh I think it's like
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uh potatoes it's potatoes and carrots
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got some macaws over here oh it's like
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the bird is warming itself
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with the heat lamp
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there's the heat lamp right there
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there's the bird Birds quite a few in
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here
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quite a few in here like six or seven
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Birds staring you down
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staring contest
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this one's just sliding down the little
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tree stump there
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look at that got it all figured out
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hello
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going in another little fruity pebble
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look at that is so cool a little turtle
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down there
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we all have our wristbands too so this
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wristband signifies that we can do all
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three things the Gator Park obviously
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not the sloth
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experience but the Gator Park
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the boat ride
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and the Safari it's like something this
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is like an area the swap thing would be
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very at home in okay there you go
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Cypress knees are root projectors that
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extend above the water and snorkel quote
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unquote air to submerge roots
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that one is fisting
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guy wants to eat people eat bone
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crackers that's Bone Crusher
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whoa it's the second
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Bone Crusher is that his name
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no there's a big one over here
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okay
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pretty big Gators
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kind of looks like an anteater almost
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saying hi to you how are you doing hi
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buddy
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hello buddy
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oh thank you
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that's so cute
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hey go
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oh you can't go in just stand here okay
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yeah after it's all said and done
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oh my gosh these pigs
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so cute
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these goats over here are like no we're
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good we got plenty of food over here
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too
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oh
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take a look at these
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how do you pronounce the name of these
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I don't know capybara
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now because years and years and decades
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ago we always did alligator shows in
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Florida so many people got bit that the
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State of Florida determined if we bring
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out any reptiles in front of the public
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wherever you're at they must be secured
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for your safety so that happened back in
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like the 60s and the 50s for so long
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it's because they're really good at
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hiding and that's thanks to some
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adaptations I'll show you first one look
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where their nostrils are their nostrils
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are red the tip of the skull the end of
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the snow
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it's a pretty long walk out here down to
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the the water the lake
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quite a few little stations here for the
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different airboats
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quite a few different airboats
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right here
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what are you doing great good oh we got
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some more gates
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they don't have it welcome to your new
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experience I gotta go over a few safety
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items real quick and then we will get
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this ride going for you fire
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extinguisher number one is in front fire
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extinguisher number two should be back
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there behind the third row underneath my
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feet in the hall there's gonna be a
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first aid kit man you built pump
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anchoring a paddle underneath your seats
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or your life jackets you don't have to
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wear them just need to know where they
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are
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we just ran out of gas guys we're gonna
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have to get out and push
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I'm just kidding
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guys Birds laughing
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in the grass line you can stand up if
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you are
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see him laying over here 10 feet off the
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10 feet off the boat out to the outside
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you can see his head sitting over there
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yeah
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is that the almost the same one that
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came in the boat right here oh the one
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over here yeah
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I didn't see that one
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I just ran over
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oh yeah it was right there yeah it was
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right on the side
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a little bit smaller that one was
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probably four and a half feet that I
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almost ran over he was hiding
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it hurt out in front of the boat right
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front
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the white speckles
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carefully just step right on top of that
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gator
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lampkins are native to Florida
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and they are actually only one of three
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bird species out here on this Lake that
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made for life
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oh cool
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if you see two of them together they
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already made it fair
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and they are noisy
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the other day I'm surprised they were in
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the water yeah they actually it's good
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grazing out here
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so this lake is surrounded by three
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cattle ranches
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and the ranch's perimeter the entire
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Lake
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in the summer there'll be hundreds of
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them down here oh wow
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the lake is owned by the state of
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Florida
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oh out in front of the boat guys in the
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air see the Bird hovering so now it's
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flying away as a abandoned Kingfisher
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there you go you can see it hovered
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they are really cool Birds
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we're looking for fish
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ing
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that's so cool
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Florida all the property is public but
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ranchers that have the cows come out
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here because cows do eat invasive
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Mason cows welcome out here especially
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in the summer keep them cool
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right or I think uh babies being brought
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in through the window
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as a stork absolutely that is a the only
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native stork species to the United
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States that is a wood store
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a big old boy right there oh yeah oh
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let me see if I can turn the boat a
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little bit hang on
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probably 10 foot Gator right there big
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mail
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if anybody wants to go swimming now it's
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time anybody that paid for the swim with
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the gator ride I'll do it that's where
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you hop out
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I bet you couldn't get within 10 feet of
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that game probably not he'd be gone he
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would take off if you get closer I'll
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jump he is so pretty that Gator is so
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afraid of you right now
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there's a big old boy right there
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for this Lake that's a big Gator it's a
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small Lake
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and all that noise you hear out there in
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front of it is that Lincoln that same
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bird we saw earlier and they do not shut
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up
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made in the grass oh snake
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oh my God
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what kind of snake is that that is gonna
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be a water moccasin oh wow
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wow
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it's gonna be one of our venomous snakes
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out here
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now that it's nice and cool but these
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the sun's starting to come out a little
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bit asps
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very dangerous
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there's the gator over there say that
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again there's also a snake yeah that's
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what we're looking at oh
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it's got good eyes
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everybody everybody up front get to see
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it okay
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yeah that's one of our venomous snakes
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something's hissing in there yes there
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is
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oh he's right there guys look around in
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here he's right there
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you look for it if you guys look for the
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yellow and black bands in the water
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there's baby Gators see there's one here
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one right there oh yeah there's a big
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one right there though
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move slow
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that's great it's a little baby right
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there
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and then the big ones right over there
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it's right there Faith you got it got it
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oh my gosh you just dropped your phone
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in the water
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look there's little babies oh my gosh I
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cannot believe you just got your phone
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out of alligator Festival did you just
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oh my Lord
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okay you must get that guy at Indiana
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beach that was from the first one
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goodness
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I guess that's the mama right there
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there's 30 or 40 of them she's gonna do
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a little investigating
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she's been seeing the movement moving
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over here in the boat so she's going to
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come over here and take a look
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see what's going on give another hiss
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probably
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you done being grouchy
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huh
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he's got a whole slew of babies back
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behind her oh really if you look all
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follow all the way behind oh yeah
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there's a punch back a whole bunch back
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it's probably 30 or 40 of them back in
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foreign
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she's probably guarding them right yeah
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that's that's her job once they hatch
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the only job she has is to try and
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defend them as much as she can so they
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don't get eaten
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there's one right there yep
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oh yeah
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all right guys thanks for coming out
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that's awesome guys double check and
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make sure you have all of your personal
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items cell phones Keys wallets Etc it is
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a long walk back up our Pier if you
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forget anything
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to tie off this boat and we will get you
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guys going thanks guys thanks for coming
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appreciate you thanks guys oh thanks for
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coming out I appreciate it
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thank you sir it's pretty awesome pretty
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loud though I'm glad they got the gear
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of my things going all around this Lake
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I think
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start with Captain
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we did it
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just drive around could get an original
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bag of poo
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right there oh look at this bag that's
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kind of neat
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all right we're now going to go from
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and head over to the safari I'm gonna
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get in the passenger seat my sister's
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gonna drive so I can film out the window
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from one foul Florida area to it oh it's
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almost not happy
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over there in the fields some honeybees
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beehives in these boxes
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trying to reach in the window
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I try to come in the window there hello
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whoa look at this guy
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oh heads up how's it going
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how are you
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from Longhorns and everything it's
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another one over here
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wow this one over here staring right ass
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intently across the way
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and they look like statues with the
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breathing walking up here
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that's awesome
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making her making their way over to the
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car
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oh it's like the old wise cow yeah
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telling stories
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they like each other I love it
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there's a bunch out there in the water
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unless in the swamp
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this is good those gazelles
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or ambulance those are deer those are
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deer okay white-tailed deer
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oh big old alligator crunching on
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something over there
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do it again Gator what are you crunching
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on
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there's some big Gators in there
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traveling down on something one thing I
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will say
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well I'll say a lot of things but I'll
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also add this in
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takes a while to get through here
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because if one car sees one animal that
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it wants to get a photo with
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it'll stop and move very slowly so you
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have these long backups like this come
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on over Pig waiting on you
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waiting on you pig there's an emu up
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here holding up traffic so we're not
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holding anything up by sitting here
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oh he's cute hi buddy
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hi there
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it's a giraffe over there
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there's two giraffes out here now
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there's that one
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and that one we've about reached the end
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of the drive-through and now we're going
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to feed a giraffe we're gonna meet a
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giraffe
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beautiful
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we'll be over there in a second
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wait for us
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all right we have a few pieces of
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lettuce here
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okay this is Walter over here
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so there's another one over here
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slice of this sure just give me like two
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of those you got two you can grab two
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right daddy you just want to touch and
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you want a pedal wow
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there's one more over here Walter you
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missed this one I had it behind my back
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hey Walter went around the corner
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here you go
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okay Walter was the other one what's
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this one's name
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what's your name
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Leroy Leroy
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up here comes Walter Leroy right here
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Leroy
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Leroy right here Leroy Leroy here you go
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this is for you not Walter Walter's had
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enough you've had enough Walter no no no
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no no no Leroy
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come here Leroy
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okay now they're both like we're over it
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okay Leroy get over here you got it
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Leroy here
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there you go
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all right that's gonna do it for today
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from Wow Florida
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home not only of the Safari
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drive-through Safari and yes it did take
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about an hour and a half slow going
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through there you see a lot of animals
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but also went to the Gator Park went on
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an airboat an hour long air but it's
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been a full day
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and fed two giraffes two giraffes
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wild Florida Safari it's a good time
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probably 10 minutes outside of Saint
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Cloud Florida
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that general area
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I'll see in the next video
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vlog
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is over