TDW 1759 - Submarine Buried In The Ground

0:03 fueling up the RV departure of Florida

0:03 begins right now just went through the

0:07 toll plaza Turnpike northbound

0:10 welcome everyone out of the die you move

0:12 you had a good visit in Florida with the

0:15 Star Wars Celebration did my taxes went

0:17 out with some good friends told my

0:19 family quality time a breath of fresh

0:22 air has been exhumed into or from my

0:27 body but the open road beckons it

0:31 bellows listen do you hear that sound

0:35 it's like a channel daily walk cattle is

0:38 not daily whoo wow that was those are

0:46 good one more lat don't work then no

0:48 good buy for Van Gogh all goes well I'll

0:51 be back in this neck of the woods around

0:53 December Christmas time if it doesn't go

0:55 well then I won't

0:57 bow-bow bow-bow bail bail bail bail bail

1:06 bail bail bail bail bail the Bam Bam Bam

1:12 now ah the eye for ice or maybe when I

1:16 return you'll be finished of course I've

1:19 been asking myself after 20 years and

1:20 still not gone down a dent on dot dot

1:24 dot dot got a dent on super truck

1:29 definitely a little further than a hop

1:31 skip and a jump from st. cloud to the

1:34 Florida State Line takes a few hours the

1:37 very lengthy sting

1:39 I took the Turnpike all the way up to

1:40 interstate four headed eastbound next to

1:43 the Daytona Beach and now I am on i-95

1:46 just past Palm Coast almost to st.

1:49 Augustine I'm heading straight up

1:52 towards the Georgia line it's in sight

1:55 that's not for a while but it's in my

1:58 mind right check it out

2:00 it's not so large Marge there's a lot of

2:03 places to get souvenirs but there's only

2:06 one souvenir world not only do they have

2:09 fresh fruit but they also have the

2:13 seashell dangling decoration one day I'd

2:17 like to own one of these coconut guys

2:19 like maybe this pirate right here would

2:21 look good not now but one day one day it

2:25 looks like kind of has the John Lennon

2:28 glasses off you know what that might

2:30 actually look good from the rear view

2:31 mirror in the art man I don't know it

2:35 was just a thought they have an

2:36 assortment of free samples

2:39 honeybell tan jello oranges pretty good

2:48 now don't be alarmed that is a stuffed

2:50 Gator it's not going to come after you

2:52 however the ones inside of here just

2:57 might I see you back there looming

3:00 behind that rock

3:02 for some reason this reminds me out of

3:04 one of the ending scenes from

3:06 beetlejuice the shrunken head Satan I

3:16 never noticed this till just now but

3:16 Florida if you turn it on his side it's

3:18 like a like a gun or something something

3:22 that's indecent I'll check it out the

3:24 name of that bus is the bookmobile do

3:26 you know what band back in the day

3:28 called their tour bus by that same name

3:30 I'll give you a hint I'll give you a

3:34 hymn passing into the greater

3:36 Jacksonville area now and I heard

3:38 something many years ago probably the

3:40 early 90s that he took everyone in the

3:42 world and gave them five feet to

3:44 themself so they can all fit in

3:47 Jacksonville I don't know if that's true

3:50 in this day and age but Jacksonville

3:52 pretty big there's also a slight chance

3:54 that max never was true but it's fun to

3:57 think about on the left oh objected bill

4:00 either way you have a lot of mass to you

4:04 many years ago in the downtown for a

4:06 very short while there was a huge rubber

4:09 duck no longer downtown it's now in this

4:12 pond next to a car wash and it's

4:16 anchored down very well you will never

4:18 escape again rubber duckie you are

4:22 chained on all four sides just try to

4:26 get loose just try I'll get you my

4:31 weight look that's the wrong quote looks

4:32 like we're about to go over that blue

4:34 bridge

4:35 what do I say - ooh named after John J

4:39 house open the sign designates it thank

4:43 you for visiting Florida but for now

4:46 I've got Georgia on my mind my dad made

4:52 an observation to me once that rest

4:54 stops you rarely see anyone not always

4:57 but most time you never see anyone using

4:59 the picnic areas and ever since he

5:02 mentioned that I've always noticed that

5:04 is true

5:05 that's sign ain't she a peach here at

5:09 the rest area to have this little boat

5:10 and it says do not climb they don't want

5:13 you climbing on the boat the torpedo

5:15 however you can climb on that there are

5:18 no signs stopping it there are a series

5:20 of things inside the Welcome Center

5:23 including Darrell here who looks like

5:26 he's rolling solo how's it going this is

5:31 slightly awkward I have my face inside a

5:34 piece of fruit seriously taking a selfie

5:39 as as a peach piece of fruit with legs

5:44 and arms and I think it's only fitting

5:46 to get my stanley kubrick photo by

5:51 sitting on the actual torpedo making my

5:55 way into a community by the name of st.

5:57 Mary

5:58 should be something very interesting up

6:00 here on the right and yes yes there is

6:04 holy cow later that thing this is the

6:07 USS George Bancroft a full-size

6:11 submarine wedged in the ground you'll

6:16 see that every day

6:16 and it's on u.s. Navy property and there

6:19 is an officer talking to the gentleman

6:21 who park their trucks here hopefully I'm

6:24 allowed to stay there it is pretty

6:26 incredible to say the least and it makes

6:28 me wonder did they cut it completely in

6:30 half and just lay the top portion on top

6:33 of the grass or is the entire thing

6:36 buried under the ground more than half

6:40 of it inside rooted in the soil I'm

6:45 guessing that's probably what happened

6:46 you can see how there's a slight incline

6:48 and no fence and no signage I think they

6:51 want me I think they want me to walk up

6:53 I'm walking up on this sucker the

6:56 security back there he'll say something

6:58 right if I'm not allowed to be up on you

7:00 I have to how can you not it just

7:03 stretches pulling my head it's got a

7:05 tractor beam saying walk up on me walk

7:09 up on me I'm the king of the world this

7:15 is amazing not going to lie impressive

7:18 most impressive

7:32 okay get out of here it's almost as if

7:32 it's submerging itself into the side

7:35 see you later submarine take care

7:39 built on the north bank of the st. Marys

7:41 River at a place called buttermilk bluff

7:44 the town was purchased by a guy named

7:47 Jacob weed for $38 it's definitely a

7:51 very cool-looking place like that old

7:56 church building and very quiet - the

8:01 streets are not real busy wait a second

8:03 there are pirates looming around however

8:07 stay clear factory it is very windy so

8:13 I'm going to apologize as any wind

8:15 causing a little bit of havoc on the

8:19 eardrums

8:20 check out this view how beautiful is

8:25 this scenic look at the water man this

8:30 is nice

8:31 this cannon appears to have the

8:33 cannonball concreted into the end

8:37 normally you don't see that but this is

8:40 the rare occasion when the cannonball

8:42 was actually left inside the cannon

8:44 there seems to be a part of railroad

8:46 track here it's no longer used in this

8:50 building called the track a railroad car

8:53 named after the town and this one here

8:56 has a face on the front of it what's

9:00 that buddy and they even give us some

9:02 distances as far as mileage to some of

9:05 the neighboring towns whoa what is that

9:12 it looks like I've stumbled on the

9:13 whereabouts of the Okefenokee Swamp Moth

9:18 lady with cows above her

9:31 this is something I was not expecting to

9:31 see today anything exciting happening

9:33 around these parts lately Oh got inches

9:40 and I know it might be tempting but do

9:42 not steal this chicken or you will be

9:45 hung right here kind of like this I

9:49 didn't get caught I'm just using this as

9:51 an example see I can get out of here I

9:54 can get out of there at any time my own

9:56 free will and in case you are wondering

9:58 what happened to old doc that's him

10:01 right there face down in some foliage

10:03 old doc just let him be that's where he

10:07 wants to be just let it be there not

10:08 only do you not want to go fishing in

10:10 this very teeny tiny lake you also don't

10:13 want to go swimming because you have to

10:15 beware of this guy Nestor the rock Ness

10:19 monster it looks as if one victim did

10:22 not heed the warning heading into

10:25 Woodbine now can't really see it in the

10:28 air we can definitely smell it there the

10:30 controlled burn somewhere in this region

10:35 one of lumber yards around here so they

10:37 got some fires nearby definitely a

10:42 potent smell this is a statue of a

10:44 crawfish right here made out of metal

10:47 and it looks like the crawfish has left

10:52 its shoes the banks of this river are

10:54 incredibly muddy you would get stuck if

10:57 you were to walk down in there the feet

10:59 would sink very very deeply this dock is

11:04 beautiful I'll check it out on the side

11:06 of the dock it actually says your life

11:09 is beautiful there's a stencil of a

11:13 Polaroid this is south Atilla Park and

11:16 that is the South Atilla River and I was

11:18 talking to an older gentleman for a few

11:19 minutes out here he used to work on the

11:21 railroad around here and he was saying

11:23 there's an old railroad bridge just down

11:26 the river I'm going to take the Majestic

11:28 up see if I can get some bird's-eye

11:29 shots it's been a while so I took the

11:31 phantom 4 DJI drone up in the air it's

11:35 been resting a little bit too but it's

11:36 the perfect opportunity to get some

11:38 bird's-eye aerial shots of the beauty of

11:41 this river the South pilla River and the

11:44 old railroad tracks and bridge pretty

11:47 freakin cool if you ask me and even

11:49 cooler but I met a guy who was out here

11:51 just looking at the river he used to

11:53 work on said railroad way back in the

11:56 day

12:55 the other day a case of this was left in

12:55 front of my RV door someone recognized

12:58 Large Marge and wanted to keep me

13:00 hydrated most appreciated thank you very

13:04 much and one last night have you ever

13:06 seen an antique store promoting their

13:08 products in this way I never have

13:12 slightly unusual but for some quite the

13:18 photo op blogged over

TDW 1759 - Submarine Buried In The Ground

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