Seaplane Tour Over Vancouver On Harbour Air Was Windy & Turbulent - Incredible First Time Experience
Seaplane Tour Of Vancouver
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today's adventure
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begins as the recording of this Tuesday
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March
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11th
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2025 I'm in Vancouver a
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rainy
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nasty wet
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cold
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Vancouver but I'm going to do something
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today that I've never done before in my
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entire life and take a sea plane
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ride taking off from the water and
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landing on the water and getting a good
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view the Greater Vancouver area welcome
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everyone Adam the woo here again my
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buddy nerd
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locations how cold I think it's colder
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today than it has been the last few days
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I think it is just a little bit nippy
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out just a little bit so one thing we've
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been doing every morning is getting
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caffeinated by our good
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Tim
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H we're going to go get a
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little piping hot caffinated beverage
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and then we're going to do a sea plane
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you ever done a sea plane before I've
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never done a sea plane before today the
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today's the day it is the day join me
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shall you we got about 2 hours so we
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have to check in for our SE plane ride
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it's 41° it's 1020 right
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now going to be raining all day high of
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43 oo it's going to be a warm one
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oh it's like a
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beacon Tim
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Horton coffee for fans of the movie
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Wayne's
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World I have a feeling they named Stan
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makitas after Tim Horton to pay tribute
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I think it was like it was like a
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tribute right I think it had to
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be all right acomplished right here on
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the corner of West
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Pender and Abbott Street we going to
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walk this direction over to the steam
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clock past the Vorhees alley again nice
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little scooter here Vish not a Vasa but
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a vaspa style scooter I'm always tempted
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to get a scooter for celebration but I
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don't know if I ever
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will see
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that something like that always makes me
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think I should probably get a scooter
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one day who knows what the future
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holds as it turns out recently
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discovered that
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mcgyver show I used to watch all the
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time back in the
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day think three season 3 four and five
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or maybe 3 four five and six were all in
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the Greater Vancouver area first couple
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seasons were in La who knew and they use
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this alley a lot which was also used I
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stated the other day Friday the 13th
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part eight Jason Takes
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Vancouver SL Manhattan over here next to
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the Phoenix building there's also a army
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Navy shop down there really neat sign
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here it's a meat save on meat
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shop really great spinning neon
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side that is beautiful look at that
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thing spinning around Save On
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Meats got the pig right
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there the dollar sign and then you got
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the Save On
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Meats spinning around see if I get a
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better angle yeah that is beautiful
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right there look at that thing that is
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old school vintage neon and it still
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spins so you got Meats on one side the S
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is spelled with a dollar sign and then
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the other side the precursor to Meats is
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the save on meaning that you can save on
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meats that might be my favorite spinning
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neon vintage sign I've seen in a long
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time
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right here in Canada next to Funky
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Winker Beans
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Pub I've seen a lot of pubs in my day
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but never seen one named after Funky
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Winker right next to right next to the
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meat place
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definitely a lot of Puddles and
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accumulated water here in the parking
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lot oh look at that old ghost sign up
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there
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Hotel sign right
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there man love that old advertisements
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up there way back in the day and another
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one over here look at this can hardly
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make out what that says but old timeing
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I got 25 cent peep shows in here the
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neon's not on though
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so no no go on the peep show today right
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not at this moment anyway if you have a
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quarter though you get yourself a little
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peep show oh
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dang a pet
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Exorcist no pet
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exorcism what the and AET psych I've
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been all over the world and I'm never
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seen a pet
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psychic before but here in Vancouver
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yeah you can bring your pet on down to
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the pet
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psychic and if they're think if they
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have something you need to get the demon
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out of
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them oh the clock
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is very visual today emitting the smoke
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out of the top of
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it speaking of a Guyver there is a photo
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H me and ice cream cone Richard Dean
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Anderson right over in front of the
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clock over
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there yeah look at
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that MacGyver
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himself the coolest
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guys eating that ice cream cone it's
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about 15 minutes till
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11: our
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tour is at
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1 our SE plane flight they told us to be
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there 40 minutes early so we need to be
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around
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1220 we got plenty of
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time oh catching
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it oh caught the end of
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it we caught the end of
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it it didn't do the full the full
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rendition we caught a little bit of it
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though the old steam clock here in Gast
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town so D so dang cool so dang
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cool I need to find a magnet with this
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thing on it so I can put on
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my cabinets in my garage I think I'm
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going to look for a magnet this would be
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the place to get it they have the best
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souvenirs in Gast town since
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1995 shop here for the best deals in
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town
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shirt take a look at this you got the
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little miniature version of it right
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there I don't know if it emits any steam
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off the top but that's pretty neat you
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got bottle openers put shirts in here
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touch and feel and prepare to be
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amazed look at this you touch and
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feel I I can get myself some
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Vancouver snow to go just to add water I
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can take some snow home with me when I
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get back to Florida I'm not going to get
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that but I am going to get this magnet
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right here with the clock on
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it not bad I bought a seven or 8 magnet
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said do you take US currency he said
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money's money gave him a 20 and then he
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gave me back after I bought the product
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gave me back $26 in Canadian currency so
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that's the exchange rate
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so example yesterday we did the Gonda
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ride it was 80 $80 Canadian but with the
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rate that would have been about
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57 is
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dollars Canadian it's confusing but yeah
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kind of getting the hang of it
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awesome some merchandise shops here
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including this
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bear this bear is very inviting saying
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come on in and buy
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something here at the Hudson house all
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right the bear made me make an impulsive
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decision pulled me in like a tractor
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beam I now have a Canadian coin purse
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that I have my loonies and tunies in I
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did the same thing on Ecuador Ecuador is
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much more coin event than Canada but
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yeah I'm trying to collect collect
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International currency so this would be
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nice next to the bills from Canada along
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with the other countries that I've
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already gone to and
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will continue to go
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to to commemorate those in service of
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the Canadian Pacific Railway
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company this is the
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railway going to be taking a a plane
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later on
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we're going to go check out the train
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station people coming and
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going here's the train station open in
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1914 Canadian Pacific
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Railway and the sky Train came in in
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2009 today approximately 50,000 people
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pass through the building every day
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that's a lot of people here's the
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Canadian
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mounties retail store
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and here's one of the mounties right
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here that moose right there is wearing
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the mounty outfit
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also one thing is neat about inside I
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ended up getting the duck but
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also they have a collection
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of Patches from all different police
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precincts all over the US and I guess
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the world and asked if he had Orlando
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and in fact he did have
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Orlando and also a a lot of them from
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Florida a lot of familiar areas that
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I've been through many times so it's
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kind of interesting to see other side I
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mean just the farthest you could
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possibly get from here for North America
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well not the farthest but pretty far you
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know in the top Northern Western most
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point above the border of the USA and
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then I'm in the complete opposite corner
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so it was neat to see all that inside
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there all right we're going to make our
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way still got a plane to
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catch it's a round trip it's just we're
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going to be we're going to be up in the
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air for like 40 minutes making our way
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over to the
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Waterfront
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Port nice little
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breeze hopefully it does not affect our
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takeoff and Landing but if it does it'll
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all be part of the experience
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cool crisp 42 degrees out right now
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bunch of steam coming out of here
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too we're over at Canada Place big
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shopping district over
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here nice view over there across the bay
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or across the lake or the
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water got a
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barge be getting a good view of all this
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from the from the C plane but wanted to
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show proximity to where we're about to
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head over to it
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beautiful skyscrapers everywhere all
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right nice little Courtyard over
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here this little
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sculpture and a
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fountain man a big look at that a whale
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this is Jack
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pool
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Plaza a Great Canadian a great West ER
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and a great man according to this he was
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a builder of better communities and
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voluntarily provided exceptional
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leadership commitment to public good and
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exemplified service of the chairman of
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Vancouver organizing committee for the
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2010 Olympic
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plane nice view of the skyline there
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across the
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water pretty fascinating over here the
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Chevron is a floating gas station look
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at that it's like floating out there in
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the water but it has the Chevron sign on
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it
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oh here we go down here
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look here's the sea
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planes okay this is the SE plane dock I
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believe the company that I booked Harbor
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air one's about to take off or is
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landing located right over
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here there it is right there that's our
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dock oh heck yeah this is going to be
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awesome
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we're going to get a view of this bad
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boy taking off and getting a little
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preview before
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boarding we're going to be in that
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thing look at the wind sock man it is uh
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it is
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firmly
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erect beautiful
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cloudy oh hello there seagull
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let's
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about take it off look at that off the
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water oh that's
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cool that is
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cool first time experiences I've been on
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a plane a lot of times but every one
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that took off and landed on the water
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I think the fact that it's windy is
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really going to add to the to the vibe
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of this take a
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look this little art piece the wind is
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blowing
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BL is that Chevron out there I've never
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seen a sign like this this was the sight
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of an unnecessary fire started by a
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cigarette please
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dispose
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responsibly iron workers Memorial
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Bridge there's pieces of it
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here and up here
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oh look straight ahead into the harbor
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in the distance a steel
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truss it still spans across bured Inlet
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and part of the Trans Canada
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Highway lot of barges out there a lot of
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boats tug boats barges regular
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boats sea ples
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him out of the box he's got his little
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Canadian flag he's got his outfit on got
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the Hat got the
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beaver conable
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Canard he's going to take a little SE
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plane Journey also hope he's not afraid
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of heights oh okay I see it coming
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in yeah I think of SE planes I think of
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Raiders a lost Arc jock Lindy had a SE
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plane
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then of course you got to think of the
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waterw world show at Universal
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Hollywood also the SE plane pilot in the
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movie Water World Kevin Cosner was Jack
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Black fun
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fact Jack Black will probably not be our
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pilot today but if so I wouldn't be
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against
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that's where the sea planes probably
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fuel up too I'm guessing I was thinking
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maybe it's was for boats but probably
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that Chevron is for the sea planes
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all right we're all checked in got our
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boarding
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pass ready to rock however we're not
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going to be doing the original plane
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flight tour we were going to do we had
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the extended premium tour which I guess
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did the
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standard path but then also went over
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the mountain as you can see the mountain
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over there the weather is very full of
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inclement weather so we're doing the
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standard Scenic tour which is still
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going to be good but it's going to be
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about 2/3 the length we don't get that
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extra that extra third over the
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mountain due to the weather but I am
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just
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thankful that these are taking off at
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all because this weather look at that
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wind
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sock at first I thought they were just
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going to say no planes are taking off
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today but we are going to be able to get
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a little SE plane
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get man it is windy very windy
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I'm popping away sorry Duck Go sorry
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mcgyver do you like coffee no he's
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looking the other way doesn't want to
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make eye contact he has a caffeine
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problem oh okay maybe not it's happening
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it's time also should be noted that some
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of the harbor airplanes and other
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companies that are here will take you to
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other areas around Canada that are
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within a short half hour hour flight so
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you don't necessarily have to do the
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round trip going out and coming back but
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this is more of a Scenic tour that we're
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oh yeah look at
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this okay sounds good thank
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you all right here it goes
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pilot said it's a little windy so he
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said it's going to be a very bumpy and
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turbulent and fun
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ride a little chop here going across the
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water
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just landed wait for it I to land
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there's no Runway it's just
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water it's go time it's go
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right over Lion's Gate Bridge Lion's
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Gate Bridge right
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there oh so cool
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this thing is shaking and bumping and
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swaying to and fro
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oh wow
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you can feel every little turn
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lighthouse man that's so so
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cool Lighthouse Lighthouse Keepers cabin
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everything right there on the side of
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the Hill the cliff
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sways dang
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it a little frightening
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for
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making a hard left
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turn Bing
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left got to admit I'm getting a little
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nauseous little nauseous
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Tang dude look how cool this is right
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over
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downtown
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unbelievable so freaking awesome
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I have
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woo that's what's
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up play achievement good it good yeah
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sepl achievement has been unlocked
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awesome thank
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you appreciate it thank you
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we did it we did it boom achievement
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unlocked than you so much apprciate
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it there it is a
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303 Harbor
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air got to admit I'm a little nauseous
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I'm a little nauseous a little bit Yeah
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it a little windy up there yeah
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are there ever days it doesn't does it
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doesn't take off that you don't fly them
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oh yeah not visibility is like to be low
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three they don't fly so how close today
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were
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we how close today were we to today this
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morning it was like uh yeah I think was
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okay but uh we were going to do the
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extended the premium one but they
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wouldn't let us they couldn't go over
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the mountain no like if they can't go
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through the
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CLS okay thank you man appreciate it
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have a good
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day so that just happened my first SE
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experience uh it was really rough are
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you feeling it yeah I'm I'm feeling it
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the turbulence was pretty pretty pretty
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gnarly but I'm okay now I mean it was
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like there was a moment there where I
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was like uhoh I could uh I could
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regurgitate but I didn't I just all
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right the turbulence was was something
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else that's probably the most turbulence
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I've ever felt on a plane really yeah
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that was a that was
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something plus you're on a small plane
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so I mean just look how
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this I mean just a little bit of wind is
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is Shifting this thing how'd you do on
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it I did
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good good I was fascinated by the sight
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so I think I was a little distracted
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yeah definitely was awesome
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price was for the premium would have
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been $250 Canadian do per person so it
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been 500 and change for the both of us
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that's Canadian keep in
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mind but they ended up ended up getting
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downgraded to the regular one which was
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I think 187 Canadian per person so about
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70 70 less Canadian per person
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so probably I guess that'd be like 120
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us per person yeah probably yeah not bad
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150 maybe worth it in my opinion
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completely worth
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it Harbor airc
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planes So Adam do you think this is your
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first and last SE plane oh no I'll do
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more 100% yeah helicopter tours SE plane
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tours I'm all about him now I mean it
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was it was a little nauseating but it
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wasn't too bad I'm fine it wasn't
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anything to deter me from doing it again
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you got your
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wings it's a great old Cathedral right
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here
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all right that's going to do it for
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today I can safely say first time in my
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life ever that I've done a sea plane
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I've been on a sea plane always wanted
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to done a lot of planes but never a sea
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plane knock that one off the
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list thanks for
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watching hey got a really good view of
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Vancouver Vancouver is like really cool
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you see how expansive it was did not
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realize we're going to fly directly over
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downtown so that was
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awesome it was a good time thanks for
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watching I'll see you the next video the
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