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this is incredible komuk Pearl Island
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foreign
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foreign
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hi there good afternoon
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this is lovely komuk
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at pawapi beach
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so
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it turns out this is not the first time
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that I've been to komuk
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so a little while ago I was reading
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online about things to see on the island
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and I read about the emerald cape
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and while reading the description
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I started thinking man that sounds
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really familiar
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so I went back and looked at some of my
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uh videos from a previous trip to
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Thailand and sure enough
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I came here on a boat trip
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for the day from kolanta with my friend
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Maria and we went to the emerald cave
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as well as kokra Don
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guy other uh islands that are in this
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area and so I've actually been to this
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part of Thailand without having realized
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it because I came from a different
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direction coming yesterday from kolope
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so I'm not going to visit the emerald
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cave again but I will show you a clip of
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it from the last time back in 2017.
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it's like 30 feet tall the ceiling right
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here
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get back up oh
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this is the one all right so
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it looks like it's what I was thinking
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it was a beach inside a enclosed cave
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check out that cool beach
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I'm not sure if it's gonna be an
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enclosed space I think it is
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yep
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okay now I can touch
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all right
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and there's a monkey up there
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how cool is that hey monkey
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the beach we found the beach
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the legendary Beach
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nobody's ever been here before
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I'm sure maybe a few
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and so that is a really really unique
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and cool place to visit I definitely
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recommend it either if you're here or on
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kolanta or another neighboring Island
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and doing a boating day trip as you can
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see out there is the mainland of
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Thailand so there are various ways to
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get here to komuk you can come by boat
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from Kopi P Phuket kolanta colapai or
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you can come by
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boats from the mainland right there and
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then coming down on a bus or whatever a
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taxi that way and that might actually be
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a quicker way to get here than by boat
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all depending on where you are so I have
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a motorbike as you saw there and I am
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very much looking forward to exploring
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this island I really like it it has a
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much more authentic local feel from many
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of the other more popular islands of
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Thailand as I showed in my previous
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video the regular neighborhoods back
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over there
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so with the motorbike I'm going to
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explore further and basically just kind
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of cruise around randomly
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and see what I find first I wanted to
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show
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the beach at this Shiva Lai Beach Resort
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which is I guess one of the prettiest
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beaches on the island you can see it is
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low tide at the moment but the sea is
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looking very nice
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looks quite clean almost no garbage
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there are some garbage piles on the
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island in certain places but it doesn't
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seem to be
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especially prevalent you know ruining
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the uh nice beaches or anything so uh
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let's get up there and uh
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CV sivalai beach resort beach
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very nice looking Bungalows there right
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on the beach
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I'm sure that they are a lot more
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expensive than my 36 dollar night room
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I will try to find the prices and show
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you right here
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see the LIE
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must be their boats for day tours
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foreign
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notice something's missing compared to a
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lot of places people
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almost nobody here
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it is not one of the more popular
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Islands
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but uh it certainly does deserve to be
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more popular
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from what I've seen so far
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it is really really nice and some
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amazing beaches we haven't seen the best
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one yet Charlie's Beach
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foreign
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peninsula here and as you can see you
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could literally swim to the mainland
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from here I mean it would be a tough
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swim but uh somebody could do it
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out there is the pier where I arrived
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yesterday
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and so this is Peak peak season
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it is currently January 4th
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87 degrees Fahrenheit that is 30 degrees
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Celsius although
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it doesn't seem that hot I think that
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that might be wrong
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for the present moment
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right but uh anyways it is just
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pleasantly warm
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to the point that I'm starting to think
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about jumping in that water at some
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point but I think that I'll keep on
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going from here and
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find another Beach
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and so this is quite a nice Beach as
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well
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I just love the feeling in the air of
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how
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peaceful and quiet it is
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decided to stop here for some lunch got
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some pineapple juice
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and I love the sounds of these cicadas
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so I ordered Penang curry with pork
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but they brought prawns so there was a
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communication breakdown there and then
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I uh mentioned it to him and he said
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that they actually don't have pork
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because of the mosque that is nearby so
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I'm going to go ahead and eat this and
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then I just ordered some spring rolls as
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well and then some rice
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definitely not a dish for the super
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hungry but the curry sauce is really
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good
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and the spring rolls with
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probably a plum sauce
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150 Baht that is seven bucks a day no
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passport needed
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they didn't even check for a license you
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just fill out a form basically saying
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you'll pay for damages
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so that is the beach that I was on
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before
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I'm headed out that way
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and wanted to show
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this interesting area
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of the local
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homes or whatever on the stilts
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there is a
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dirt path
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going along them so
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screws
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foreign
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foreign
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I need to go this way not really sure
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this might get in
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yeah it's looking that way okay maybe
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there's another
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Road I need to be on to get uh up
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towards the north of the island
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or
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maybe it goes through
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no
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I'm gonna check the map
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oh okay maybe it does
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I thought this was a driveway all right
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all right
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got what you got
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Corolla on the main Highway
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foreign
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look at that cool restaurant up there
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happy restaurants good name
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welcome
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really really interesting exploring
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definitely
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a different vibe from many of the other
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Thai Islands
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good place to be
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if there's going to be a tsunami in the
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next five minutes
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komuk Garden Beach Resort
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so I read online that there was a hike
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starting from around here going up along
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the coast Through the Jungle which
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sounded really
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amazing now I'm not sure that I'm going
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to start that hike quite yet
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because I'm kind of enjoying the
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motorbike exploring and the height goes
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to a beach
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which you can also access
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is that what you got
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by the road
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so I'm thinking that I will continue on
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the bike up there
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and then maybe do some of the hike
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from that point we'll see but I just
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wanted to investigate here winds picking
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up
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pretty cool location I'm sure that it's
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nicer when the
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tide is higher and you can access the
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water right here because
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that is not a good situation for
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swimming at the moment
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peaceful spot here
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a place with a lot of character
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all right let's keep on cruising
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I love these little paths Through the
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Jungle
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huh
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okay I guess this is the main
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Road
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um okay
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this does not appear to be going through
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whoops
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that dog isn't very protective which I'm
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happy for but uh
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not doing its job
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so I was wrong you can't get to the
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beach that I'm trying to get to
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by Road
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it isn't far only
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650 meters so that shouldn't be all that
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long of a hike
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but this says top
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so I'm curious what this goes to
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hello where does this trail go to
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okay how far of a hike is it
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that sounds super cool
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oh excellent
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right on that sounds good
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wow
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whoa
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sounds like it's worth it
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I guess I should just park here or can I
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go a little bit just park here further
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but we just felt like maybe not right to
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go further you know I see there's the
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one
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they went further with the bike and you
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can make it much farther oh okay
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but from here on we thought like I just
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doesn't feel right to go high school
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really yeah too lazy huh too lazy you're
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here to hike just like from here on you
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know okay it should be scooter yeah
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maybe I'll check it out and give it a
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try there
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cool thanks a lot thanks
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and let the hike begin
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I'm really stoked that I happened upon
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this because I hadn't read about it
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online it was a different hike that I
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was uh trying to get to
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by the sounds of uh the Viewpoint it
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sounds really amazing yeah
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let's hope that the path is not
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too difficult to follow
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I guess we're going up there and look we
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got uh
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whatever that is collecting sap I guess
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this is some real jungle
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glad that I brought my
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sturdy sport sandals and not my
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leather
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flip-flops
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because this is looking like a pretty
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serious hike
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with some real elevation gain
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so there was a fork back there
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I took the one that was going more
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directly uphill
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not certain yet if that was the uh right
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choice it looks like it's kind of
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dwindling a bit
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up here
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we'll find out
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yeah it's getting
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a lot smaller by the looks of it
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oh boy
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still going but it is not very clear
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and we're headed for
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a very steep part
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oh man
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this is looking a little
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questionable
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whether this is really the right way
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I could get
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relatively close
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you know probably the peak is just kind
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of right up there but
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if you're not on the proper Trail
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it is not going to be easy or smart to
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uh
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try to bushwhack
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so
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up the uh
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sort of
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a stream bed or
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to the right here
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yeah because this
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looks more like a trail actually
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foreign
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this way viewpoint
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yeah thank you
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this is a serious hike
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I really hope that the peak is fairly
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soon
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it's just so steep
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this is not much of a path
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but
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it is still going
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barely
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and it is just getting
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smaller and smaller
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and going along the side
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rather than up
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I am far from certain that uh this is
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the right Trail
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so I've been hiking for 15 to 20 minutes
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and the jungle just keeps on going
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I thought that there was a light at the
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end of the tunnel here
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but it looks like another illusion
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I am seriously starting to think that
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I may have
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taken a wrong turn maybe that very first
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one
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but
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this island is not very wide it has to
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go downhill eventually and
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sure enough
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for the first time here it is going
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downhill
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but
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it is uphill on both sides
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this is a saddle here
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it is not looking like I'm anywhere near
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a viewpoint
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so man what a bummer it sounded so
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cool
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now we're going
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downhill so
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it doesn't make sense
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to get to a viewpoint
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going this way
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ah
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and then there have been
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so many
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even more faint paths
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going off
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maybe one of those is supposed to be it
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but of course
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I don't want to get lost here
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which it is getting more and more
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like a realistic
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possibility
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so I've been trying to stay straight
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just to make it easier for me to get
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back as far as making decisions
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once I turn around which is going to
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happen
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right here man
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so it is on my uh phone Google Maps so
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in my last video I said that uh Maps
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wasn't working it did start working
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later so I do have
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reception here and Google Maps is
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working
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and it shows the Viewpoint as being more
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that way
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that is
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basically not even a path at this point
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so maybe it was that
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right hand turn that I saw at almost the
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very beginning in which case I just went
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like
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35
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minutes or so
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out of my way in the wrong direction
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of the uh
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top of a ridge
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or is it just another illusion
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so I'm making my way back
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it is a good little hike getting back
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and then looking out there I'm thinking
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where did I go wrong where else could
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the trailer have gone when it is just
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all super thick jungle
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steep Mountain there maybe the Viewpoint
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is up on top of that but
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there's no trail that was super obvious
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that I missed other than the first one
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I'm not sure yet if I'm in the mood for
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chasing that one down
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I'll see when I get there
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so here's the fork maybe you can see why
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I took the left one
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it is just a little bit bigger and also
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going more straight uphill
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so
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is that supposed to be it
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yeah yeah yeah
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I am definitely not committing to
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following this one to the end but let's
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investigate a little ways
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and 20 seconds later
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it is already
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petering out
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but
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still going
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well I'm bummed guys
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I just hiked another 20 minutes or so
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this path has been fainter than the
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other one the whole way and then here
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it goes Super steep
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basically disappears and
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no
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realistic
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signs it all of being anywhere near
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a viewpoint
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so I think I got it turned around here
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what a shame all that hiking
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can't say for nothing because it was
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still
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cool to hike in the jungle but I so
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wanted to see that view I'm sure that
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you could see so many surrounding
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Islands the mainland of Thailand
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KO kradan
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KO and a guy probably kolanta maybe even
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copy p
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EE
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what a shame
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that's the way the cookie crumbles
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I'm also bleeding
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got uh
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cut by like a piece of grass or
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something nothing serious
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all right let's get back to the
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motorbike and
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keep cruising a much
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easier way
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look what we have here
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an arrow
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more arrows
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some pointing straight
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some pointing left
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what is what
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no they're all pointing this way
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so
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I went the wrong way on my motorbike
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by like
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30 or 40 feet viewpoint
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Subway Beach
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another Beach
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jungle camp
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up here
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I was completely in the wrong area not
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far away right over there but not on the
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right Trail
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so now that I know
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I can't pass this up even though
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I just killed
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more than an hour probably
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but
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the description of that Viewpoint is
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dragging me onwards
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look at all these arrows
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I really did not enjoy doing that hike
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up the hill for the third time but I'm
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glad that I did it and I think it's
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going to be worth it
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we have a
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jungle camp and Cafe
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looks closed
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yep big lock on it
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but I think
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we must be getting close to the top
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it is much more open up here and wow
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look at that
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look at those Cliffs
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that crazy
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cave overhang thing
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interesting looking bird there
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all right
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so the emerald cave
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must be
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in one of those mountains right there
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I suspect that there is probably another
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viewing Point that's a little more open
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let's see
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another little shack up here
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foreign
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jungle cafe
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okay just a uh hangout area I guess
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and what's down here
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beautiful beautiful jungle
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are we gonna get
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a more epic View
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huh
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um okay maybe not
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the sign at the beginning
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mentioned a beach maybe this is going
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down to the beach
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the beach the beach
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Leonardo DiCaprio's Beach
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that is on
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copipile
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been there in 2017.
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okay well
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I guess that music
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not bad
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it is high time
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to take a seat
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obscured but still a nice view looking
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East towards the mainland of Thailand
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and down there is the point
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two beaches and the resort
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where I started the video
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and I think it's safe to say
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that I earned this one
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it's still cold even
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cheers
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foreign
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so I'm now what is supposed to be the
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best beach on the island
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which has a bunch of names
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Garnet Beach Charlie Beach fairing Beach
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and had CEO
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and I'm really ready for a swim
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but I just felt a raindrop
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I will probably go in anyway
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wash this sweat off me from my
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treacherous hike through the
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Thailand jungle
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wow that water looks so calm
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so I guess that out there must be
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kokra done
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which I also visited on the uh boat trip
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back in 2017.
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that
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foreign
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foreign
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foreign
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