Orlando Tourism. Feeding Giant Alligators! Explore Florida Theme Parks, Gatorland
think you need two really Salme Hayek get up you finally talked me into snake wrangling we're going to Gator Land, Gator Land, Gator Land, whoops I mean we're going to Gator Land Gator, Land! Amy are you ready for this I'm so ready we made it all the way to Fantastic Gator land! Gator land now to enter you have to go through a Gator's mouth very exciting this dates to the 1930s! wow! I had no idea! the original day there is a guy last named Godwin who opened up a gator pit in his backyard. that's uh problematic and his wife sold Gator souvenirs from their kitchen, cuz Florida! so folks this is Gator Land not too far are from um Orlando it's very um you can see you got like it's speed limit 4.7 mph very specific and I think in 1949 he switched it from a gator pit in his backyard to an actual Park and it's just been going ever since then. I've heard that Gator Land actually while maybe the history is a little bit problematic that they actually do some good things for Gators and conservation and education and they have a pretty good reputation as far as I know. yeah they they save a lot of gators people who have a gator in their backyard and this and that the little Gator I don't know if you guys saw this story it was it was a viral kind of Internet story maybe six months or a year ago about the gator with like a half mouth... it's supposed to be here now they're helping rehabilitate her and letting her I've heard a few where they somebody's raising a gator in their backyard and it gets confiscated and then these guys care for it if you will so yeah this is going to be a big Gator day at Gator Land we'll show you other animals here too I think um some flamingos and a petting they got all kinds of stuff all right let's show them the and right back there is speed limit is 4.7 mph
it says there's a sign at the beginning that says um parking 1949 cuz that's the year it opened and then it says but free today and let's show you the Gator Land sign up here that' be a good thumbnail look better if if it's you let's get you in there that's a nice thumbnail I would I would go to this park. all right so Gator Land since 1949 that's incredible snakes and Gators and all kinds of stuff here all right stick around we have even more coming up Gator Land Orlando Theme Park the alligator capital of where the world the world and that's why this is the world's greatest Adventure Adventure all right what else is cool this Gator right up here the gator mouth oh this is awesome yeah can we put this like at our house oh man we should make one of these yeah this is stucco what how do you make a gator mouth. I love that a lot of this is Roadside Attraction tourist America Circa 1950s you know 50s and 60s campy. yeah all right! you want to get up there I want to see there she is is oh that is cool I love it Gatorland Florida hey there um mind if I record this I'm just excited about it um what pass gets me the best access to the most Gators like do you want to be up close or do you want to be like yeah well the park itself has over 3,000 Gators in it right on no matter what you'll be close to it I want to see some Gators let's do two adults then all right and then the only other thing is if you want to do General Mission this would be $7 more than your general admission you get your train ride all day which is like a nature ride goes through like the back section of our Park you get to see some stuff you wouldn't see the regular Trail and then you get your uh gugor Trail which is like a bag of food to feed over to the alligators and then meor looks like this we would be stupid not to I don't know right so is it mostly Florida residents or tourists that come here depends on the time of year right the time that you're coming right about now is a lot of florid residence yeah snowbirds have left right yeah snowb birds have now left and then everybody like everything else is kind of like you know summer cool awesome all right Amy I'm worried we're not going to see any Gators oh my God we're going to see all the Gators there's so many Gators here that guy's he's like got something to do never mind he's done I also like that this guy is just maxing and relaxing between his buddies that is cute they just want to be warm they're they're like surprisingly cuddly every time you see gators like you realize like no they're just like cuddly boys they want to be warm and snuggle with their friends and they are over there somebody's somebody's fishing for Gators oh caught it hey Amy what do you call an alligator that works at a courthouse a litigator all right so to give you a look at what it's like when you're here it's the feeding experience AKA Jumperoo where they give you a fishing pole and you just put some bait on it and feed the Gators and there are an exorbitant amount of gators here over 3,000 3,000 Gators these are the 3 to 5y olds and then each section has a different age and size of Gator pretty cool got them Amy look at the size of this guy that is a fat Gator like that is a walk and breathing dinosaur if I've ever seen one same made perfect by Evolution what why do they put the giant gator next to the real Gators I love it there's some big Gators here these guys know how to party hey Adam turn around what hey how do you have me and Gator do again all right you ready to get in there yeah get your head right over it beautiful that makes me happy this place is pretty fun I like it lots to do that is cool that's a fun image that's a big Gator so Gator Land is a 110 acre theme park with old Florida charm and it's now celebrating 75 years in business it's known for its 14 foot Gators live animal shows and a screaming Gator zipline and on top of that they've got a whole bunch of delicious foods and snacks that you can eat including Gator bites oh yeah all right at my [Music] camera with the goal of protecting conserving and educating Gatorland Global a conser ation group was formed in 2018 although I'm not for live animal shows I believe that Gator land does a pretty good job protecting Gators throughout the State of Florida that is a fat Gator I've never seen yeah no they don't get that big in my P yeah some of these boys some of these boys enormous now is a good time to remind you to click that subscribe button Amy and I are traveling the world and we have a lot of cool new videos in fact for the past 2 months we've been posting a new video every single day which include our trips to Thailand Tokyo Costa Rica and all around Florida so stick around for more fascinating videos what's over here lead us show us more flamingos I think these are babies up in the tree nope just fighting the Gators are Gator fight Gator fight oh he's puffing up he's mad oh my goodness I've never seen that before like a gator argument going on you know who started that fight the instigator these are CFA bars you cannot tell the scale but they are absolutely enormous it's like the size of a pig it looks like it should be a guinea pig but this is the SI size of like like a huge pig they are awesome they're from South America they're invasive here in Florida right now like we've got way too many of these guys not supposed to live here yeah and they can swim they can even hold their breath for up to five minutes the turkey vultures seem very interested in them is this guy like not doing well no probably because these guys are gross they eat their own poop wow yeah look at this guy Amy do you know the story of Bone Crusher no Bone Crusher Bone Crusher was an alligator that the owner had he was over a th000 lbs what could jump 7 feet in the air that's ridiculous and the owner claimed he was the largest gator in captivity in fact he offered people ,000 which was a lot of money back in the 50s if they could bring him a bigger Gator never was it claimed and then when Bone Crusher passed away they brought in Bone Crusher too like Bigfoot to who was even bigger how cool is that that's crazy that's just a great name if we ever get a gator which I think we should Bone Crusher Bone Crusher three is this the zip line you zip line over the Gators yeah it doesn't look like it's open today but I I want to zipline over the Gators that's a scary zipline to know if something goes wrong you're in the gator pitch I think so have you seen the Sharks yet bob cat by you what that said so what are we doing now we are in a swamp we're in a swamp swamp walk and this is like right up sh so this is legit the back of the park and you just get to walk through the swamp yeah it's exciting and this is like kind of our dry season so I'm sure there's a lot of footprints in this Footprints big big [Music] Footprints it's pretty though Florida has a lot of lush green jungle that's for sure stay clear of snakes and other Wildlife it's real swamps watch out for the rattlesnakes could be I believe that you get so smiley in woods and Forest I do I'm like I'm so happy right now beautiful this girl likes walking places so the trees are so pretty fun we just saw a kid though and he he's coming out of the the nature walk yeah he goes what is wrong with this park this is the worst day ever you has promised to go to Disney World he did not like it so some things you can't just walk off apparently honestly this is a great place though it's fun I love it we found a snake a real one yeah not just a show snake I mean the thing is he's really small he ruined it hey Amy yeah did you know that this Gator was in Indiana Jones in the Temple of Doom wa that's what the sign says and I feel like the sign wouldn't lie to us he's a movie star yeah he's famous he was in Orange County Choppers and the pet psychic I wonder what is wonder what he predicted you know he seems pretty trustworthy I so if you come here in like August you got to be ready for the heat right yeah that's something like people are just like you got to be dressed for the heat you can't be wearing your hoodie yeah no this is an outdoor adventure in Florida they have some stands going which I appreciate but um yeah it's all right let's do it is it [Music] safe all right folks so which photo do you like more photo a or photo B go ahead and leave a comment below look at this shirt folks Darth Gator I absolutely love it you know what else I love I love when you click that subscribe button because it means you'll be seeing more of our videos if you watch this far go ahead and smash that subscribe all right I like that the exit says see you later alligator well after a while crocodiles [Music] what do you think think you need two really s my high get up you finally talking snake wrangling finally get to put on your show from Dust Till Dawn style whoa so you know what's fun about this place let's walk what you can you can tell where people are from by how they're dressed oh that's true yeah so the story is when you come to a place like Gatorland you know it's going to be hot but there's going going to be some people wearing boots and like turtleneck sweaters socks do you own socks I do not own socks cuz I live in Florida so there's if you live in Florida you're just not wearing as many layers and you can just kind of tell somebody who's a tourist just by the fact that they're like oh I should probably be wearing six layers they're wearing like summer clothes that you wear in New York or Michigan or something this is what you wear in Florida so local tip less clothes is better with wear flipflops sundress whatever you're going to no you don't want socks you're not wearing no that's it's sundress yeah but no socks oh yeah yeah no tennis shoes none of that all right so Amy and I have been talking about an idea for a future video yeah some alternative U things to do in Florida kind of instead of going to the big places that you think of in Florida like Disney and Universal even um adventure Islands from Bush Gardens some of those can be really expensive very very crowded and quite hectic so kind of un covering for you guys some things that are familyfriendly vacation spots in the area that are a lot more inexpensive and a little bit more accessible as far as you know fewer people fewer crowds um and you know just kind of talking about that giving you guys some vacation ideas yeah because a lot of people come to Florida or live in Florida and as great as it is to say go to Universal Studios or Disney I don't know the exact price today but Disney can be a couple hundred doar a person yeah you Fastpass you buy their food you stay in the at the resort what was the dolphin Swan Resort was like $600 $800 a night recently right so you can easily spend a couple Grand on a small family for a day in Disney World so if you're in Tampa for spring break or you're in Orlando for spring break you may not want to spend all 10 days going to Disney World spending the buku bucks so there really are a lot of Alternatives and we're going to go through some of those um now but we'll do a separate video where we kind of list them out and go into greater detail but obviously one is Gator Land yeah Gatorland Gator Land is a reasonable price it's a fun activity you're going to see some stuff I feel like they're not harmful to animals I think they they do a good job for what they are also one of the biggest to me one of the biggest draws is it's not overly crowded you're not spending your entire day just waiting in line you're actually having experiences instead of just an hour in line an hour in line and hour in line for everything you do sure so number two um what about the Ripley's Museum the yeah R Ry Believe It or Not museum it's good for young kids if you if maybe if you had a childhood where you liked Ripley Believe it or not I liked all the books as a kid it's fun to see it's worth going to and it's probably under $50 to go there it's a much more economical day and that's right on International Drive so if you're staying in Orlando or Universal it's a 5minute drive even if you're staying off off the park it's probably even closer so um that's something you can do you can check in kill an afternoon real quick and then go to a fun lunch because there are a lot of cool restaurants world's largest McDonald's world's largest Chili's world's largest Checkers places with game rooms and Adventures and all sorts of theme restaurants Boston Lobster Feast Boston Lobster Feast that should be its own category as Boston Lobster Feast so what was the Fun Spot that we hit so the Fun Spot literally Fun Spot is the name of it the Fun Spot I was going to say that one next I think that is such a fun spot it's Apple name there is is um a gator exhibit there's a lot of carnival rides some kind of fair fun mini roller coasters that are good for older kids that want a little bit of a thrill um there's a really fun arcade and it's a great spot to get a ton of fun things in for a variety of Ages but again without the huge price tag and without the lines that you're waiting in all day long you're actually riding the rides you're actually um able to get reasonably priced food and drink and have a good time right what about St Augustine oh okay yeah um St Augustine you'll hop on I4 East it's a little over an hour away from Orlando you can stop at the bies which we've done videos about there um those bies in that area and it's a nice place to take the family do a historic tour walk around see a few things um there's some history there oldest continually inhabited city in the United States and it's fun you know one of our new things that we have um in Tampa that I really really love are our lagoons our man-made lagoons man-made lagoons in Tampa these are really really reasonably priced and they are so much fun for the entire family they are absolutely beautiful they will blow your mind um and they have not just the Lagoon itself is like a giant swimming pool but there's areas where you can kayak you can stand up paddle board they have a food truck Park some water slides and my absolute favorite is a giant obstacle obstacle course that is so much fun um this is definitely I think an alternative instead of going to one of the really expensive water parks that have a ton of lines and crowds um going to one of the lagoons is a great option a great swap you know if you so for people haven't been there it's essentially a giant swimming pool the size of a small Lake um they'll have little beach areas they'll have loungers they'll usually have a few food trucks and like Amy said some some water slides and some obstacle courses and things you really can't beat it it's a great time parents that was five um do you have a number six um number six check out some of our local Springs um sometimes during the summer especially the beaches can be really overwhelming or say during Spring Break um when we have so many tourists here if you are a local you can think oh man like I just don't want to fight with the Spring Breakers to go to clear water to go to St Pete Beach if you still want to get out with the family i' highly suggest checking out one of our local Springs yeah Lithia Springs is a great example or heading up to um like we watchi and uh three sisters um that area Crystal River absolutely beautiful you can have the chance to kayak or just jump in the spring water um Lithia Springs for example has like a um Beach kind of pool area next to the spring where you can take your kids to swim and enjoy all the same activities you would at the beach but with much fewer crowds better parking way less stress and probably more natural Wildlife you're going to get to see more Gators and vanities and um fish and tortoises and things like that um plus a lot of hiking trails and just getting out and kind of um experiencing nature a little more I think we're on six yeah what about wik wa watchi oh yeah of course do the mermaids yes wiky watchi is a place that you can go a fun little town and they have a place that you can watch mermaids swimming and they've got people as full mermaids swimming underwater and it's it's a blast yeah so wik watchi is definitely a tourist attraction and a place that you're going to want to stop if you get the chance so to swap out maybe if you can't quite swing a Disney trip but your kids still love all things Disney I definitely suggest going to Disney Springs Disney Springs um because that's there's no entrance fee to get into Disney Springs but you're still going to see a lot of characters a lot of um Disney things Disney um branding and so Disney Springs is a shopping area and it's within the Disney confines right you can pull your car up there's parking there and you can go to some fancy restaurants I don't know if they have the House of Blues there if that one's in Universal CityWalk but there's a lot of very cool theme restaurants there GRE Forest Cafe or equivalent there's a big Lego Store there's a lot of like just fun clothing stores they'll have appearances of characters um um it's a fun place I always like if somebody's in town and we just want to go out to lunch I'll take them to Disney Springs um and it's a fun way to get that Disney experience without having to spend $500 on tickets and theme park rides and everything you can just go there you can have a little a little overpriced lunch or dinner but you can get that Disney feel for the day at Disney Springs and they've got a lot of night life and attractions you can take a water car a water taxi they've got a lot of stuff going on there that is a lot of fun what about Universal City walk I was going to say that next likewise um Universal City Walk is to Universal as Disney Springs is to Disney so it's their equivalent and it's a really fun spot to go um I believe unlike Disney Springs that has free parking Universal City Walk is about $20 um to park but you don't have to have tickets to the theme park to get into City walk but you still kind of get that theme park excitement and feel um with a lot of bars restaurants and shopping yeah so Universal Studios is split between two parks Universal Studios and I believe it's Islands of Adventure then in the center when you diverge they've got a shopping and food area that's the um Universal CityWalk that is also a place particularly for older folks um like more adults that's a great night life place they do have the bubble gump uh Shrimp Company they do have the NBA World they got a lot of stuff going on there that you can partake of and I've spent numerous evenings like 68 hours just going there and not going to the theme parks or if you're going to like the Halloween event or anything it's a good place to hang out before and afterwards they'll have a lot of little restaurants like a bunch of little bars and places to hang out and it's a lot of fun and you get that full unversal Studios experience minus the rides which for some of us that's a fun way to um have an afternoon yeah absolutely you can go pick up a trinket and you can go shop in the stores and you can go um maybe get lunch they've got like a m there and they got a sushi place and they you you can get fancy food or you Universal Studios fancy food or you can get um fast to go yeah and it's a great place to go people watching for sure yeah does that bring us to nine I think so I think that's nine where are we going for nine um so you mentioned Halloween and maybe this isn't year round but I think a very smart swap is instead of going to the big name brand brand um Universal Studios um Halloween event yes which is expensive yeah and tons of lines even if you get a lines I don't mind the price I hate the lines even if you get a fast pass in a single night you probably won't get to see every single house impossible because the lines are so long you'll run out of time um instead you should check out help me with the name H scream screamageddon screamageddon screamageddon um is right outside well in between um Tampa and Orlando so close it's north of Tampa yeah um you can check out a really really fun Halloween event they have five or six huge houses some fun like Paintball Adventures and ax throwing and all kinds of fun stuff um scary characters walking around in scare zones some food trucks and um it's a little less professional than um which makes it more fun yes which does make it more fun um you're going to have a lot more encounters with the entertainers I would say so Florida does Halloween big because we have so much tourism Universal Studios converts six to eight of their houses plus scare zones they've got a big event that's a couple hundred plus you can Fastpass it or the Fastpass costs more than the event yeah um Disney does a not so scary Halloween it's very pretty and fun and yeah so that's nice um Bush Gardens does a huge event in Tampa that Rivals all of them but scream again is more reasonably priced it started off at like the $15 Mark I think it's 253 30 it goes up every year because the demand goes up so get there before it goes too high um but it's at a zipline Adventure it's out kind of in the boonies where like it's it's in a farming Community if you will you park in a muddy farm field definitely bring your off spray and your mosquito spray and your um shoes you can get dirty um but there are a total of six houses available one of which is usually like a hay ride with with zombies attacking and then one for the last few years has been like a prison that's been taken over by monsters usually zombies and things there's um one that is clowns and it's a big Warehouse you go through and the prison usually you can wear a glow necklace which means the actors can touch you which you would never get away with that Universal but they can kind of grab you and put you in a room um you know interrogate you in the prison in a private cell or whatever it's kind of fun it was a little hands off during Co for obvious reasons but um it's a lot of fun yeah I think they're getting back it is it's my it's my favorite Halloween event in Florida and the fact that it's fewer lines and less expensive is just icing on the cake there's a Texas Chainsaw Maser that you're going through an old farmhouse type of thing and people are running around with chainsaws and you go through a maze there is an outdoor world that's supposed to be kind of like you're in the swamp and redneck people are attacking you and Voodoo and giant crocodiles and all sorts of Florida stuff going on Florida New Orleans type of stuff um and then there's also it's an additional fee they take you on a bus and give you paintballs and you shoot zombies in the woods this is zombies are attacking you you shoot them with your paintball gun and that is a surprising amount of fun I would almost like to be the Zombie so those are 10 fun things there's also a lot of other stuff to do you can go go to the gamble Plantation down South by uh Sarasota you can go to the Edison and the Ford Museum Ford Museum their house their grounds really beautiful there there's just a ton of things Bush Gardens in Tampa is a more reasonably priced alternative to Universal as well as they've got um an adventure island type of wet and wild park that's associated with it and those ones if you're residents last I saw the tickets were like $100 for a year pass right much more economical I think it's like sometime sometimes it's like $89 for a one time or 100 for the year pass they want you to come back and buy food and pay for parking um we got we got the year pass I've got the year pass twice once to the water park and once to Bush Gardens only went once each time but it was $10 more so why are you not going to get it we need to make a point to get those passes again and actually use them because they do um Bush Gardens does have a really fun um not just theme park but um water park with some really um epic rides really scary ones I feel like um water parks I've seen a lot of people do water park videos where they're going down the crazy slides and stuff I think those will make good videos get your GoPro and make it happen c yeah sounds good okay so um there's a lot of things to do in Florida there's a lot of places to visit so there's almost unlimited Adventures on International Drive there's that eye of Orlando which is a big ferris wheel that you can do yeah there's a Titanic Museum last I saw there's that swing thing where they like put you face first and you think there's some there's um reverse bunge there's bungees off of there but there's a lot of Alternatives and don't be afraid to go off the beaten path a little bit in the Orlando area um you know a lot of dinner theater yeah it's not just Disney and Universal although those are obviously the two big people come here for Disney and Universal but don't be afraid to um whether you rent a car or do a tankful drive down here if you're a Florida local there's just so many things to do and we should experience there swamp boat tours zip lines so yeah we're we're going to refine our list and do a little bit more research on the exact pricing and everything maybe we'll put some of that in overlays um but that's going to be a separate video that we're going to give a lot of details on but I hope you got an idea of some of the fun adventures that you can do here in Florida
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