Secrets of Walt Disney World Seven Seas Lagoon & Bay Lake / Boat Tour of Forgotten Disney History
A visit to Walt Disney World for a trip by boat around the Seven Seas Lagoon and Bay Lake . By renting a pontoon at Polynesian Resort guest have access to cruise around the waterways at their own pace . A lot of fun seeing the sites all around property from the comfort of a floating vessel .
Micah's Channel
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Transcript
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today's adventure brings us to the
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property of Walt Disney
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World but I will in fact not be entering
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any of the
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parks they'll be doing something a
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little bit different the game plan is to
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rinse and board a sea vessel and explore
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all the nooks and crannies of the Seven
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Seas
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Lagoon and attached Bay Lake just kind
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of roam around the waterways the real
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question is do I take the teeny tiny
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boat the Pontoon or that midsize one
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right there in the middle the hours are
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11 to 5:00 p.m. and these are the prices
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if you'd like to plan accordingly even
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though fishing is allowed out here I
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will not be partaking no pole in hand it
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is a catch and release policy but I'm
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I'm just going to let them be I'm going
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to let them have their their freedom I'm
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just here to cruise welcome everyone
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Adam the woo here officially
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out to see to see
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what whatever we decide to gaze Our Eyes
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Upon world of Micah is behind the wheel
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for now I am riding shotgun and there's
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a heck of a lot of room on here we will
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switch places as as the day progresses
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this is kind of becoming a tradition of
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sorts back in
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2015 we did this can you believe it's
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been that long it's been a long time the
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layout of the land say can be seen on
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that map I'm yeah I've grabbed the
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captain's chair going straight
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ahead join
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me shall you I have this clamp to my
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belt loop and it is attached right down
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there that way if I fall out the boat
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will automatically turn off and I can
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reboard this is a slow use idle speed no
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wake zone and I'm going over a water
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Bridge which means directly below us is
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a road you can see it right down there
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and there's the money shot there goes
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the Mont
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raal who knew as traffic is going
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underneath this that there
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is water right above you this wind sock
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designates just how Gusty it is out here
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at the moment that bird just to totally
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video bombed I think the the best the
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best course we should take is go all the
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way to the far end of Bay Lake and then
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make our way back now before we showed
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back in 2015 we showed the wave machine
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we're going to show a few more details
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today we're going to stay out here a
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little longer than I did once
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before very quickly leaving the views of
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the
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Contemporary behind for some reason in
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my mind I thought
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pontoons moved at a very slow pace but
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this thing just trucks right along how
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fast do you think we're going um well
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right now we were going 10 just below 10
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right now probably
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9ish gun it see if we get this thing up
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to
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15 I hear some heavy
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machinery on that
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Shoreline that's former River
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country right over
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there yeah tearing it all down all that
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old
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woodwork the abandoned water
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park parts of it still sit way back
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there but not for much longer they are
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just they're just ripping it
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wow you want to explain what that tree
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is behind you mic this is the uh the
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shoe tree so basically if you work in
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Walt Disney World Transportation on the
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Marina and the boats when when you
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retire they make you take your shoes you
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tie the shoelaces together and they have
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a little ceremony you throw your shoes
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on the tree and this is where they live
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on forever the shoe tree the shoe tree
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the shoe tree of Bay Lake quite a few
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Birds perched up there as well I'd guess
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there's probably three or four dozen
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shoes up there in the tree and just as
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many fowl to match maybe the birds want
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to wear those shoes they're doing some
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shopping going to have some waves some
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Rippling waves it's going to get a
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little Rocky we're bouncing we're
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bouncing hold
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on
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whoa it's like an aquatic roller coaster
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of sorts this is a no wake zone is it a
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no wake that look he just passed right
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by the shoe tree without all those birds
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went a went a flying now we're going to
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really start shifting to and fro it was
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moving this pontoon cannot go roller
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coaster round
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two we're bouncing oh my
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gosh looped back
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around had to had to get another
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shot of that Rubble there the River
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Country
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rubble a more personal aspect
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of the
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branches never know what you're going to
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find out
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here certainly something they don't put
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on the guide map
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distance moving right along I spy Space
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Mountain to the far
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right and even though I'm standing
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currently in the Florida sun right here
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if I just shift a bit
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adequately prepared is this
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awning to Shield us from the elements
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oh yeah that's
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better much better this is rid it in
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style side note all the boats go about
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the same speed and are pretty much the
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same price point so why not go with the
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larger one so you could stretch your
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legs out that's my philosophy lots of
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leg room we're about to watch a very
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rare opportunity through that clearing
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in the trees in the middle is where the
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fair fairy boats are
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taken this one is off duty and making
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its way through that
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clearing this fery boat is way off
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course and you notice there's no partk
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guest anywhere on it that's going to
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continue past those buoys where we are
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not allowed even cooler that that's the
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Admiral Joe
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fower way off course notice the Montreal
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about to go inside the
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Contemporary there it is and
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there it
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goes wait for
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it it's almost
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patient
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done and another make its
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view while we're at it might as well
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show this angle get another one
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protruding its way inward from this side
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be
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patient that one's almost in too be
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patient and there
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it goes it's interesting on the map it
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still States the name Discovery Island
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this was Discovery Island if you look
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close you can still see some of the
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buildings and
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partitions right up there on the
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decades I'm surprised there's no buoys
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here next to these this Thicket of brush
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you get awfully close to the thicket can
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nearly Reach Out And Touch the
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thicket what's a Thicket right there
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that's right there that's all Thicket
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see how thick it is oh dang check that
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out a building or at least a roof on one
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of the old
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docks you can see the chain link fence
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they put
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up oh oneone snooping around on that
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island it's not safe you never know what
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kind of will the Beast is
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waiting waiting in there for
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you the past now it's been said I've
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heard this many of times there's been a
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couple of different locations but I was
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told at one point Roy's cabin was
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supposed to be built right over here but
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then I also heard that Roy was supposed
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to have a cabin over here at Fort
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Wilderness Campground so it's never
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really been confirmed to me so the rumor
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is Roy Disney brother of Walt who opened
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Walt Disney World after his brother
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passed away was going to have a cabin
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built on Discovery Island somewhere in
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this neck of the
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woods true or
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false you decide could pretty much get
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out and walk in this little section it's
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not too incredibly deep you can see see
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the sand and dirt at the bottom LS of
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lily
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pads along the beach
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line well what used to be the beach line
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take a
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look at
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that little
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momentos back in the day at one point it
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might be covered by this brush there
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were pieces of an old pirate
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ship that was used for production
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purposes it's either been removed or
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completely engulfed by the
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foliage this particular
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section kind of reminds me of like
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Gilligan's
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Island that little like
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alve area and you see see the trees like
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protruding up out the root system has
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been like eroding
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some Cypress knees there on the
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left and a piece of
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lumber no longer in
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use an old light on top peek through
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there very
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carefully that's a
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building Cast Your Eyes Upon that
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plain as day hiding back there making
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our way out of Bay Lake which is about
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30 or so feet deep to the man-made
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portion of 7 Seas Lagoon which is only
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about a dozen to 14 ft deep a big
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difference parade coming through there's
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a parade coming
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through vessels of all shapes and sizes
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Hello both the sections are
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connected once again passing back over
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this Water
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buses and cars going right
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underneath from ground level you would
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never know this is up here
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it's
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rather
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there
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Foundation former
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concrete Lots changed since the early
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'70s
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through here some of these Rock rocks
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are unusual the one right there in the
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middle after looking at it I don't think
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it's a rock it's like a sloth
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like foam looking
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creature yeah it's hard to
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tell you never know doesn't get much
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better than this got all the major
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landmarks in frame
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and the monreal going
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by heck yeah
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Castle train
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station Space Mountain ferry
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boat it's all there the cranes I believe
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are in
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place above the tree line for the new
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Tron attraction that's being built some
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construction happening close enough to
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even see the topiary Mickey right there
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in the middle of the frame at night they
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have an electric water pageant floats
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that come out here on the Lagoon slight
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complely tucked
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away across from the Grand
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Floridian oh you can see them back in
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there yeah you can see the
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floats little storage area monreal beams
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are in the
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water I never noticed that before until
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Micah pointed it out I didn't know
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they're just like stanching right down
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in the lagoon yeah it's pretty cool man
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not on
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land but in the sea the Seven
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Seas I wonder why they call it the seven
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se's looking you don't know I have no
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idea don't cross the streams you never
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cross the
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streams oh I'm thinking of something
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else the rules as far as life vest goes
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they have to be on board you don't have
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to be wearing them but they have to be
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present just in
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case Within
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Reach they used to do a lot of
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promotional photographs of characters on
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skis
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Goofy with this backdrop right here the
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Goof having a good
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time probably water skis is much better
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than than me hey Adam do you know
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there's a horn on this
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thing I do now
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they're
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crisscrossing going to and from the park
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to the transportation Ticket
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you I don't think they hear me think
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they hear me probably not I don't know
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maybe they don't want to hear you maybe
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they're they're just they're in the
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moment they're in the moment they're
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taking in the seven season Lagoon oh
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wait they honk they heard me
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hello nailed it we were talking about
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Roy Disney earlier after he did the
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opening day speech in the park he came
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out here on to the Seven Seas Lagoon and
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people asked don't you want to be in the
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park and he said no I want all the glory
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to go to my brother Walt I don't want to
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be in there so after he gave the opening
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speech he was out here where we are just
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hanging out on the waterways must also
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mention the wave machine that used to
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sit right there it's been removed
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basically what it did is stirred the
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water up enough that there were waves
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you could surf out here didn't last too
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long though created too much
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erosion on the beach that's going to do
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it for today as we're about to park and
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