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Checking in West End Bahamas and Stumbling on a Great Anchorage Ep 56 #svaguaazul #bahamas #sailing
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Feb 28, 2025
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0:02
my gosh that looks like Christmas over
0:05
here this is West End and we're sitting
0:08
outside going to go in there
0:13
tomorrow okay guys so we've cleared in
0:15
the Bahamas and man it is Rocky in West
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End the holding sucks and it is Rocky so
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we're going to move just around the
0:25
corner there's a nice uh little
0:26
Anchorage I think we can squeeze in
0:29
first I got to get the engine cranked up
0:31
and get on the way but yeah it was uh
0:34
she said a rough night last night oh
0:38
well it was more rough because the fact
0:41
that we're not really holding our anchor
0:44
is just kind of like a weight right now
0:46
and we put out 250t of chain did we
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really to weigh it down yeah H we have
0:51
to pull all that up yeah I have to pull
0:52
all that up so yep I'm might to get
0:55
cranked up but look at this water it is
0:58
so beautiful
1:01
yeah looking down there you can oh you
1:03
can see our
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chain goes around around all the way
1:08
over there okay bye Weston you were a
1:12
horrible night's sleep but man clearing
1:15
was a breeze so click to clear do all
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that good to go if you have a
1:23
dog uh yeah I I'll leave uh links down
1:26
below for that stuff but uh yeah click
1:29
to clear is the way to go so and uh I'm
1:33
going I guess drive out of here but yeah
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we'll see you at the next
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Anchorage okay there's the entrance to
1:41
Jensen
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myr we just rounded the corner of West
1:46
in and it's not very far and now I have
1:51
to watch all the gauges to make sure we
1:52
don't hit anything trying to get in
1:54
there okay this is a better view of the
1:57
entrance you have poles on either side
1:59
and we're going to to thread the
2:03
needle okay guys we made it through we
2:05
have a 6.4 ft draft I ain't see anything
2:09
under really 13 ft bab's over there on a
2:13
lookout
2:14
for crab pods or crack pites is what I
2:18
used to call them cuz we got one on our
2:20
prop or I mean our
2:23
Rudder but we're going to go right over
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there a little ways well good ways and
2:32
should be about 17 to 10t around there
2:37
we got a few other people in there my
2:39
babe's going to go up there and get the
2:40
anchor ready look at this look how this
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was cut out
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though yeah so she's going to go up
2:47
there
2:48
and do her job tell me where to
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[Music]
2:54
Anchor get my babe doing her job
3:05
that's three three did you hear
3:08
that sound yeah what is that that's the
3:11
motor motor yeah no it sounds like that
3:15
it's 60 foot I'm I'm I'm going to clean
3:17
out but uh W we're really on top of our
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sh yeah it's I'm might L we're rubbing
3:25
on our nice new bottom oh
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[Music]
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yeah it'll pull back it's definitely
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clearer in west end but that's probably
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just because this is cut out man-made
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see yeah but there's definitely only
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sand down there yeah supposed to be good
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good holding
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here but actually I think this is still
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dirt from yeah this is Fort lale dirt
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and uh Bella she's uh oh she's she's
3:58
doing her business right she is yeah
4:02
step on
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that stop trailing I'm doing it she just
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walks around the deck uh making a mess
4:11
of it stepping your
4:14
stuck so we are here we are checked in
4:18
and we are going to go to a
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beach I
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think yeah or go check out some of these
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waterways yeah that the beach looks
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pretty hot there's no shade there is any
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shade like oh my gosh I'm going to die
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but I'm going to get the snubber on and
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uh we're going to pull down and make
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sure we don't uh hit
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anything cuz uh I know the back of the
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wall over there looks pretty
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close so with our anchor down pulling
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against it that's how far we are from
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them rocks so I think we're good I'm
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going to put this number on and we are
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going to explore
5:00
okay we're going to go explore West skin
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a little
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bit what are you thinking
5:07
babe oh this is like night and day from
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where we had been for the last 2
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months actually the last year yeah this
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is we never saw this kind of water in
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Florida this is beautiful we can see our
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our Rudder and our kill and part need to
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take a look at that to yeah this
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here we go we're going down this look at
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that plumbing that's how you do plumbing
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that's the easy way right there like
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that's
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wiring yeah we just left where a boat
5:43
was turned in here and it's supposed to
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be a a digging dock down here
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somewhere I hope so cuz I don't want to
5:51
climb these walls
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that boat didn't make it right
6:05
there okay I don't know I think we may
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be coming to the end of this
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canal yeah I don't that boat looks like
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it's had better
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days this is the
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end so time to turn around and go
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another way I guess you could crawl up
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there
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no way
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no our boat's that way that's a noo
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right
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there that's where we came in from the
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ocean and we're yeah we're got to go
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down over
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there okay this is just down from the
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entrance right there and we're going to
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see what's down here that may be the
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dingy dock that we we saw
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it's not a dock it's just where people
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mark it as a place to dock the
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dinging so we've gone all the way of the
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end of this
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one
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and yeah that's the
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end where's the ding that dingy do is
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that uh that area just where you can
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pull up
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to where where where we uh where we
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were no yeah down the last
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one that's that's it saw
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dog it's a dinghy place where you can SK
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off your dingy and go
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explore okay so we uh went back to one
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of them Bridges and that's where we put
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our dingy
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and now we're just walking down a road
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In the Heat of the bahaman day and our
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dog sounds like she's going to die so
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let me spin around here
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there's dog water drink and she's going
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to waste it B drink some water yeah
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wasting it drink water
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Bella so we're going down the dirt Trail
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we turned around went over the bridge
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and down a dirt Trail this looks like
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somebody just uh trailblazed down to
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here SOG down here we we're going to get
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but I got to carry our dog so I left my
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wife and my dog at the end of the can
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Canal where we first pulled in and I'm
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going to go get the Dy cuz our dogs
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dying so and my wife doesn't want to go
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back down these rocks I'll show you what
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they look like so there's our Dy and
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these are the Rocks went up all the way
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up to there and uh it's kind of a big
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step here for my little my little
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lady okay guys we found the trail
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through and I don't think I'd recommend
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that with a kid no or a dog yeah
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she's so but yeah there's a paved Road
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right
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there there's a a dog and I guess
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somebody's house down there we won't go
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that way but uh yeah we'll go this way I
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don't let her see that dog
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uh-huh know about these Island
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yep but I may have to pick her dog up
9:36
again is it coming no okay okay guys so
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we walked down that from that way and
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here's a fresh Mark food right here
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so how you doing
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ma' good thank
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you but and babe the music was coming
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from that car
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baby's going that way we're going back
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to our
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Trail and going back to the
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boat not much around here on this
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side that just went to the
10:13
[Laughter]
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beach back on our
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Trail I guess you could call it a
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trail a trash though is just
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insane okay guys we're back on the Dy
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it's too darn hot Babe's over here
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getting her
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water I would have probably rather gone
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to the beach yeah than Trail through
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that just to come to a store that had no
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prices to it so you know that's
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expensive nothing really that you
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couldn't Buy in
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America there was a restaurant somewhere
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but we weren't hungry no so yeah and we
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har yeah we got to get hydrated back on
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the boat and uh maybe a little later
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we'll go to the beach and see a
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sunset I know we said today was going to
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be a beach day but today turned into a
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whole lot of
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cleaning so my babe is uh back here
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getting that stainless all looking like
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uh brand
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[Music]
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new it never ends it just comes right I
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wish there was something do anybody know
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of anything that you can put on
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this that doesn't the rust doesn't come
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back for like a
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year it would be really nice cuz I
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haven't found it I don't think there is
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any product like that and then uh of
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course we're making water and then
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uh cleaned up the floors and our sugar
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scoop and we're out there scrubbing the
11:51
bottom of our boat make that look pretty
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and stuff and Bella the boat dog she's
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just super vising isn't that right Bella
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B you just
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supervising so I'm might get back to
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work pull our weight
12:09
around okay guys so we are leaving
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Jensen uh Jensen
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we and uh Jensen miror and uh going
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halfway point little past uh um oh shoot
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I'm a Lost for Words Free Port so
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getting towards Freeport and hopefully
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the uh waves and stuff don't kick our
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butt going out here
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