Road Trip Oddities In Florida Keys - Feeding HUGE Tarpon & Pelicans / 7 Mile Bridge / Big Pine Deer
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today's adventure begins
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by driving
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to the Keys you know I think I
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technically might be in the Keys
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Highway One
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first thing you see is this
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concrete barricaded painted aqua blue
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I might be in the case on Highway One
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going over the first big bridge I think
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this
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well I think we just passed one key back
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there we're pretty much going
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the main section of the keys by crossing
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over this bridge and have some boats
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down there
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here has a
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recording of this it is Monday January
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2nd
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2023 behind me is a painting of some sea
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life
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I am in Key Largo and I am going to be
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doing I've already made quite a bit of a
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commute I picked up my mom this morning
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she is also going to be spending the
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next series of days with me in Key West
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we're not there yet we are in the keys
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Key Largo is where I am now about 95 96
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miles to our accommodations for the
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evening let's say 100 miles
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One Way directly southbound I'm going to
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be stopping at things along the way
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checking things out documenting them for
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posterity and enjoying the next series
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of days in the Keys
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or technically Key West with my mom
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I'm inviting you to join me I'm excited
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it's been 10 years well I can't I'm
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holding five and five ten years since
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I've been here it was January of 2012
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and I was only here for like a day or
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two so this is going to be a little more
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in-depth join me shall you and on the
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commute down going to be showing quite a
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bit a little interesting things off the
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side of the road
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including this rat in
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pirate gear perhaps
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we're tourists I don't know maybe he's
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in tourist mode
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he's got a big lump of cheese for years
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I've heard about the African queen boat
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that was used in the film The Humphrey
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Bogart
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film and I guess you could do tours on
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it but it doesn't look like it's open or
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maybe they are out for a tour take a
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look over here you can see where it says
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African queen but there's a pirate ship
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past it but the African queen is not
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over there the boat was restored back in
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2012 so about 10 years ago as well of
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course Catherine Hepburn was in the film
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and Humphrey Bogart we just have to use
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our imagination mom and pretend that the
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African queen is there do you remember
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you ever see that movie Yes years and
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years and years ago
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this is what kind of threw me off though
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the fact that this is over the top of it
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oh that's right you're right well it's
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our season Maybe
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oh is that the African is that the
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African queen coming in no that's like a
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big yacht
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look at that cruise ship that's the Key
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Largo princess
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oh it's glass bottom
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it's a glass bottom boat yeah that's
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what it says
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he's right yeah your first time you're
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only here for a couple of hours you took
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a boat down from Fort Myers yes it was a
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bumpy ride two hours down there and then
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we got down here for about five hours
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and it rained for one hour so we
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would get under a shelter and then but I
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don't remember a lot so uh this time
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I'll catch up yeah we'll be here for a
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good number of days
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we're gonna go full Key West
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there's a shark up on top of that
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building hammerhead shark or a well it's
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a shark of some sort it's like a jagged
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nosed shark this is kind of interesting
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it's like a little pod oh wow it's
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it's got a little living room set up in
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there
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mom
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there you go visit the keys you made it
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you're back
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that's a big chair it is I can get three
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of me in here oh look what it's called
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that's me
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that's what Daddy is
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you just get in there and Float around
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the water
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definitely a Beach Community
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Lanes in two lanes out 100 miles deep
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lots of boats come on by traffic's been
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flowing pretty smoothly but occasionally
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you get these pockets
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where nothing is moving
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going along a crawl like I said
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it's pretty much one Road in one road
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out two-sided but you get some traffic
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Pockets through here
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that's what's happening gonna be very
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patient to get down to Key West
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learning that the thing about going
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along at this pace you get to look at
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some of the kind of old Florida
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Beach Town architecture like this old
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hotel
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oh we're on the side of coconut Lane
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coconut Lane that's fine side over on
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the corner of gimpy Gulch at a place
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called The Rain Barrel arts and shops is
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a huge and gargantuan Lobster of
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ginormous
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dude I don't know what I don't know the
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word I'm looking for but a ginormous
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lobster right here on the corner of
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gimpy gulsh and the main thoroughfare
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Highway One heading southbound at the
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rain barrel the size of this freaking
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lobster right here this is this is
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probably the biggest lobster I've ever
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seen
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is it a rock lobster B-52s Rock Lobster
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I don't know if it's ever done any
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rocking listen to B-52 this is a big
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lobster yeah it's kind of neat back here
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around the back side of where the
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lobster is is like a gift shop it's like
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an old building but it's no longer open
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over here and you got like a little
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garden down here and some shops here
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called the one drunk monkey over here
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and another one over here this is kind
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of a a neat little area tucked away back
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in here look at this back on the main
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road noticing traffic is now at a
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standstill because of a drawbridge up
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here
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that is up
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lets a few boats through and then
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the drawbridge closes pretty cool
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got some wood carvings in here some
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flamingos you even see some of the wood
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back there they carve it right on the
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spot all this Tiki stuff
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Pelican there all the tiki carved out of
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the
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out of the logs and whatnot at the store
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just please stop it here you want to get
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out yes I want to see this Pelicans I
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have a tiki similar to this that
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I was able to get an oceanic Arts
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in Southern California before it closed
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Oceanic Arts it's closed its doors but I
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was able to get a hand carved Tiki
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what is that oh that's plastic are these
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plastic yeah I don't know no that's wood
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that's wood there
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I have it in my place my home
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celebration
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cheeky
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Oceanic
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I always like Tiki stuff
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take a look at this this must be the
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wood
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carves everything out of
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look at that that's cool a little behind
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the scenes here on how all this works
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got the flamingos
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it's a cigar store Indian over here too
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oh wow there's a big flamingo look at
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this one
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that's a big one wow
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that's quite the yard ornament right
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that is a
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big mermaid that has
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you know it's still technically the
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holidays you know even though
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Christmas is over New Year's is over but
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still wearing a Santa cap
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right here next to the road
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a big American flag okay I'm gonna pull
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on the side here
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get a better View at this
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look like it's seen some years like it's
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been here for a while made out of wood
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got some looks like at night time they
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have the lights on the mermaid
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got a necklace seashell necklace
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I wonder how long she's gonna wear that
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Santa cap for
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maybe all year probably not though
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looks like my van over there or my
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former van that I had back in the day
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it could be the same brand and of course
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being right here on the water on both
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sides of this road I mean you could just
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almost Reach Out And Touch
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water well I'm not I'm just kind of over
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exaggerating it's really close to the
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Shoreline on both sides of the road
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itself and there's this
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which pays
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homage to the 1935 hurricane that came
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through here and some of the
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some of those that passed during that
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20 no 200 plus mile per hour winds with
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a barometer reading of 26.35 18 foot
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tidal waves
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shows the wind blow in the palm trees
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right there too
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see the surf and the wind blowing the
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the ocean
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now too much longer the sun will be
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setting
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probably another hour or so hour and a
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half
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it looks like a A Flock of Seagulls up
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there not the not the 80s band but
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there's a lot of Seagulls up there we're
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now going over to this spot over here
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where we can hopefully feed some fish
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they've made friends with the pirate now
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once we headed in we're kind of passing
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the the highway oh
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passing the and we now have a bucket
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of fish
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right here you know what we're gonna do
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with these fish
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we're gonna feed the we're gonna feed
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not the Pelicans we're gonna feed the
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wait are we supposed to be the Pelicans
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are we supposed to feed the Pelicans or
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what are we we're feeding something over
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here on the stock maybe the fish we put
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in the fish got the Pelicans we're
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feeding the fish with fish again but I
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feel as if these Pelicans look dude get
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back get back Pelicans a sign on the oh
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my gosh look at the size of this thing
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look at the size of this fish right here
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okay these things are no Jeff so these
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fish are gonna eat these smaller fish
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this is like a this is like a full-on
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party out here with everyone feeding
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feeding all the fish here at Robbie's
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over here and these these Pelicans right
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here want to rob me of these smaller
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fish look at this I can see that I can
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see it in your eyes you want this you
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want this this fish you want this
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this says do not feed the Pelicans or
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the manatees oh
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yeah they don't want they don't like
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those Pelicans they don't want the
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Pelicans around look at this oh coming
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in hot coming in hot here
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oh
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I thought you were going for my foot
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they are not messing around they are not
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messing around my goodness look at what
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is going on down below there if I have
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this bucket of fish right here I could
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easily just swoop in and grab said fish
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from my bucket
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of taking photos
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look at this they're trying to get up
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they're trying to get down in The
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netting
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is it filming all right so there's a red
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light on yeah
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a Little Closer
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all right you guys are way lower
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oh wow what is happening right now you
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want to try mom no I could get one to
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jump up on yeah
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you don't yeah you don't want to lose
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your phone or you want to fall in the
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water
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you want what you have in there hold on
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tightly to that
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get back Pelican man they are everywhere
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here you go get it get it fish get it
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fish
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really a pelican grabbed it out of your
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hand
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there's one right here see oh
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there you go all right that's all our
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look at that right there what'd that
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fish do to you it's in my pocket I got
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it right here look at the size of these
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things oh they're huge wow
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that is a massive fish I didn't think
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these tarpers were going to be this big
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these things are like four feet long the
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size of a gator he's just waiting for
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you
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Pelicans ate it dang the Pelicans these
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fish are hungry how huge that thing is
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you want to drop in no you want to swim
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with the fishes
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he's coming in hot it's pretty but he's
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coming in hot I guess startled really
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easy
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I'm afraid they're gonna fight me I know
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they did they almost like they grabbed
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okay look at the size of the other over
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there look at that but look at that okay
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the Pelican's huge and look at the fish
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makes the Pelican look tiny
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I already want some of that
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so funny
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oh someone sunglasses
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these Pelicans are uh
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look at Pelican one of that guy's shoe
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gotta be careful while you're walking
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though you don't want to step too far
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back and then you take a swim with the
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Pelicans and the swimming okay
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we're in this little gift shop here kind
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of showing the kind of General layout of
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the land here of all the different Keys
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including from the Everglades starting
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to Miami we're just making our way all
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along here of course over some bridges
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across seven mile bridge very soon and
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we're going to end up later on this
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evening all the way down in Key West a
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lot of different Keys getting a nice
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little Sunset there off in the distance
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with the clouds
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and
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water is this close to a main road
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we're off the bridges now we're going
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through an area that has a lot of deer
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there are signs
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saying watch for deer there's even
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fences up very interesting that there
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are deer out here so close to the water
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on both sides went ahead and stopped for
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fuel
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price of gas here in this neck of the
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woods three dollars and 61 cents
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per gallon
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one thing is for sure
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when you head down here you have to
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really
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if to really be patient because it does
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take quite a while
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to get from Key Largo to Key West
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well plus I'm stopping a lot but it's
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slow going
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look at this just two
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wild deer right here next to the road
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hi
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wow
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zoom in on him here
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I didn't think I was going to see deer
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in Key West all right then the keys not
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to Key West yet
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they're just grazing do a little night
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grazing well we kept seeing the flashing
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lights and watch for deer we thought we
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couldn't even figure out why but here
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they are if it was right off the road
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careful deers a lot of traffic out here
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it was just a guy walking he just like
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walked up right up to him and they
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didn't even like
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and they acknowledged him but they
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didn't get scared and run off
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maybe they're just used to the traffic
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is there someone behind us no
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I got somebody over at the gas station
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all right dear see you later
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glad I got to meet you have finally made
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it
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into Key West
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well more or less I think I'm pretty
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much in Key West I Saw the Sign going in
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and even though the holidays are over
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this Manatee is still in the festive
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mood with some reindeer antlers on I'm
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really hoping that while I'm here during
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the tenure of this visit or the next
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series of days
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I could see a manatee a real Manatee and
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that's gonna do it for today from the
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keys now I am in Key West
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Florida
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the southernmost key of the keys
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that's right pelican
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helica's got a little
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crick in the neck
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there's crab right here
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looking forward to be here
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looking forward to being here this week
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I'll see the next video the Vlog