The New Way to Hike Around St Cloud Lakefront - Not Touching Anything / No Personal Interactions
A visit to the St Cloud Florida lakefront for a hike to get some exercise , fresh air and look at some animals .
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welcome everyone had him the woo here
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today's adventure brings us to the st.
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cloud lakefront at the West far west end
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parking lot Osceola County has a stay
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around the home ordinance that is taking
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place you can go shopping for
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necessities but you can also exercise
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and one of the few places that is still
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accessible to do so a lot of the parks
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and whatnot have closed down but the
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lakeshore is open about a mile up it's
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going to start here and go to crabby
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bills which is a seafood restaurant
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which is not open turn around and walk
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back making it about a two-mile hike or
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so to get my steps that I'm inviting you
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to join me let's get some fresh air
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shall you by looking at the coordinates
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it states up 1.1 miles and about 24
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minute on average so take about an hour
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maybe a little more with stopping and
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looking at things so maybe two hours at
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my pace current temperature 79 degrees
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that will get up to about 85 by the time
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this is completed or at least in the low
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80s and very sunny not many clouds out
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it's a good thing I'm doing this because
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my average day steps have dropped
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considerably in the last week or so
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gotta get the blood flowing they get
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those steps up you can see what I
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normally am doing but you know the last
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few days have been a little bit
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different kind of work on that I've got
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a bottle of water and my hand sanitizer
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let's do it in 1885 Hamilton distant
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Pennsylvania industrialist and pioneer
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Florida promoter established an
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extensive experimental sugar plantation
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on the drain lands around Saint Cloud in
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this neck of the woods and I noticed
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this the other day also here at the West
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Loop pavilion the picnic tables are are
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blocked off with this caution tape so
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they don't want you congregate
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there all right let's get to walking I
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really don't even want to check because
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I don't want to grab that door handle
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but the other day the restroom
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facilities that were down to where I'm
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going to be going to turn around to come
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back they were all locked up and I would
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assume those are as well the fish at
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your own risk
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has kind of faded away the no swimming
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no watercraft and do not feed the
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wildlife is very prominent as well as
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you do not want to feed the alligators
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there's two options I can take this path
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where people are biking and walking and
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there's another one on the back side of
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this retention pond I should walk over
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there I can take this thoroughfare on
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the way the way up and then the way back
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or at least surround this water
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section and on the way back the sidewalk
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which right now has a golf cart also
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driving on it
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it's a nice out it's toasty I mean 80
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degrees is a too hot but there's no no
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shade a little toasty but is rather
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Pleasant this is so metal
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here's an aluminum it's aluminum I'm
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sure there are plenty of animals and
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creatures in these weeds I just hope the
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Gators also practice social distancing
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six-feet alligators there's a tent it's
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hard to keep up welven is an interesting
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looking plant it resembles a Christmas
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tree of sorts of course I think it might
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just be I don't think it's supposed to
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be there this is growing where it's not
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supposed to grow it's very decorative
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looking frolicking around there on the
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shoreline a couple sandhill cranes if
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you're familiar with them they love
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walking out in the middle of the street
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and you have to just let them pass at
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their own accord they have the right
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away noticing on the one here on the
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left on its leg is a yellow and green
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plastic item Oh havin some fun huh
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this is gonna work out pretty good going
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around one side of this little lagoon
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and then around the other on the way
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back
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notice this bench here as i zoom and it
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is not accessible for sitting for the
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time being don't even be tempted along
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most of it along this edge is just brush
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and foliage but once you get into this
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section there are a few rocks that
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resemble like sandbags that goes on for
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about you know 30 feet or so probably
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have something to do with this little
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section that dumps in to there from the
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lake that's over there finding beauty
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and pretty much anything can be done if
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you just keep your eyes open like even
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this shrub
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is pretty little blossoms popping up the
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off the top of the leaves there well now
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that I look at a little more they are
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also leaves but a different
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discoloration of leaves almost like an
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orangish pink Commerce's a green I
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missed the opportunity to show them but
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there were two small Gators right back
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there and they were watching us I was
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showing that last item it turned around
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and then they dunked under the water
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they weren't huge maybe a few feet each
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they were smaller they're definitely in
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there they're watching me
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I got startled I guess I'm a lot bigger
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than they are
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they kind of startled me that I got to
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be honest also might be tough to see
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it's a school of fish down in there very
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murky
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and sometimes floating objects present
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themselves as an aquatic creature right
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little teeny tiny fishies
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a couple dozen of them
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that sound you're hearing is this
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fountain
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turtle turtle alert the top portion of a
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turtle
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hello there up you're gone
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there's one now
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gator alert see the eyes protruding up
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over the water
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chillin zoomed in a little more not
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incredibly huge but decent size
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take a little nibble while this is not
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the normal type episode you might be
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used to witnessing here on this channel
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nor is it the type that I would be
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filming you know pass the last couple of
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weeks events it really does help just to
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get out so again the sights and sounds
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of the outdoors instead of being
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completely cooped up constantly I'm
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currently still staying at my parents
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homestead here in town but sometimes you
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just need to say hello to some turtles
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that's what I'm doing that one is a
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little bit bigger than the other
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still not massive but decent-sized for
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sure what are you up to and don't be shy
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just want to say hi social distancing
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right am i right almost to the halfway
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point and our buddies still relaxing
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there in the center just about to the
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halfway point this is a section when
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they have events throughout the course
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of the year past these trees it's a
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little open courtyard field area
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I am utilizing this section at the
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moment for shade probably should have
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brought in an umbrella or maybe even a
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little bit of lotion on the nose a
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little suntan lotion it is toast that
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Sun is woo protruding down in hindsight
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you next time in the future I will
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prepare a little bit more for these
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hikes because there might be more for
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now these trees are good but if I just
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walked just a couple feet so I am back
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out into the elements into the Sun Oh
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big difference right between that and
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I feel it I can feel the elements
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changing even that bird is enjoying it
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you enjoying it bird why there's no
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leaves up there I don't have much shade
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doesn't seem to mind
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I seem to mind was bad a lonely piece of
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signage slumped over there near the
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concrete
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certainly a good rule of thumb and one
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after seeing what I've seen I would
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abide by there's also a statewide large
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Mouse large Mouse largemouth bass
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regulation in place daily bag limit is 5
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largemouth bass only one which may be 16
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inches in total length or longer
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there's the destination for the
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turnaround I would go over and touch the
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wall and then present it that way and
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then go the opposite way but I'm just
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gonna look at it I'm not gonna touch it
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I'm just gonna just got to look at it
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now these particular seating areas are
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not taped off for one reason or another
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really gonna try to stay in the shade as
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much as possible from here on out who
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which might be a little easier said than
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done
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there isn't a whole lot of cover so I
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may have to pick up the pace a little
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bit
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walk more briskly back I nearly forgot I
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have this h2 of for old times sake hope
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I didn't startle you you seem unaffected
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by that water bottle crushed fountain
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off for maintenance it looks like a
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permanent piece of signage or maybe it's
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not is this where the fountain was and
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they've put this little plastic bottle
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floating they're obviously tied to a
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rope
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stationed down below to signify where
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the fountain is possibly
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at its base there's a hole in it and
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they have put over to shield I guess
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from animals and other objects from
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getting up inside the trunk this mesh
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netting even though this is Florida the
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technical name of the Gators are
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alligator Mississippi in sis Mississippi
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insists in my SSI SS IPP ie in sis and
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some of these pines have different items
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in the branches right up there do you
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see them can you see those all right
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there they were cones doubtful this is
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getting a lot of usage I'm sticking with
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the bottle version for the time being I
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think most most likely others are as
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well this isn't this isn't caution tape
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coffee either
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but the seating arrangements are should
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get too close yep hiked up on the one
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leg I don't know if it's a good or bad
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sign giving me the staredown I have done
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it
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next time if there is a next time I do
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another one of these type of videos
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where I just do a little hike and look
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at nature look at animals and whatnot if
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it's here in Florida it will not be when
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the noon Sun is over my head
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whoo it is warm that's gonna do it for
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