That's a wicked view hey it's beautiful welcome to the island of Phuket here in
Thailand. Really just having a look around Thailand it's a country I've
never been to before so I've always wanted to come down here and visit. But I
wanted to do a really really quick video just on a couple of things. There's two
things that I want to cover. I wanted to come down and visit here because it's
been on my travel list for a little while and we were staying in Singapore
as you know where I did the flight from Seletar Airport that was the last video
that I posted on this channel. And from Singapore it's only about an hour and a
half flight up here to Phuket and great place to come. Here in Phuket just up the
road there's a place called the Phuket Elephant Sanctuary it's a place where
elephants are looked after after they've lived horrible lives lives of abuse in
the logging industry they've been abused for the tourism trade. You travelers out
there who come to beautiful places like this Southeast Asia especially but
anywhere in the world do me a favor. If you ever go traveling and you ever see
riding on the back of an elephant bathing with elephants watching
elephants do painting and other animals too you know horse rides horse and
carriage rides through cities. It might appear to be really local and authentic
but it's not and these animals this is not their natural environment. We saw
some horrific video which I'm not even going to explain some of the things that
they did but the way that they beat these animals down and really break
their spirits and their souls until they're at the point where they'll just
do anything in order to get a round of applause from a group of tourists was
just horrific. It kind of brought us all to tears and it was just horrible to see.
So what I want to ask a few is if you find yourself in that situation and you
think ah you know it would be cool to ride an elephant through Thailand isn't
that what everybody does please just stop for a minute and do the best thing
that you can do in this situation and that's vote with your wallet. Don't pay
money to these businesses because if these people have no income then they're
going to stop running these businesses and go off and do something else and
hopefully these animals will end up not living a life of suffering.
If you want to spend your money and you want to see these animals then see them
either in their natural environment or find a place like the the elephant
sanctuary the money that you're paying for your ticket instead of continuing
the abuse and the hardship of these animals just lets them live there their
final years in in peace and happiness
They're beautiful animals just like us as well you know they pretty much live the
same amount of years on the planet they're very social they're just amazing.
I'll put a link to the elephant sanctuary below if you're in Phuket I
know it's a long shot but if you're ever here and and you want to support this
great place and just see the elephants being awesome I'll link it below,
definitely check it out.
Now the second thing that I want to talk about is just quickly a few people out
there have mentioned to me in comments on some of my recent videos, the travel
videos, a few people have been saying that that's kind of not the reason why they
subscribed to the channel and where's the aviation content and why aren't you
flying. And I had some comments about people saying I talked too much which
look I understand I might do that I'll work on my editing and try and cut... I just
want to reiterate one thing this is my YouTube channel where I've always wanted
to just be able to share my experiences of things that I do in my everyday life
which is flying of course you guys know I'm a private pilot and I do love to fly.
And there's travel as well I mean I do love to travel I'm traveling a lot and I
just figured that I can use this channel to try and share those experiences with
you all and I think variety is really important. I never wanted this channel to
be all about me just flying the Cirrus and being very instructional in terms of
this is how you get your pilot's license and this is how you fly and this is what
you can do when you learn to fly I think there's a limit to how interesting that
that can actually be and it really pigeonholes this channel into a niche.
What I think's more important is to share the experiences that I'm having to
try and encourage you to do similar things so to travel to places you might
not have thought to go to to try different types of flying that you might
not have thought you could do previously. Now there are plenty of great websites
out there that do tell you exactly how to fly I mean they'll do everything from
how to land a Cirrus all the way through to you know working out the lift
equation. But that's not the type of channel that I want to do here. I want to
do more of the show and less of the tell because I think if you're watching these
experiences that I'm having it might encourage you to like I say get out
there and kind of do the same thing. So of course I'm always thankful I'm
thankful for everybody who's ever bothered to subscribe, watches the videos
and likes these videos but I want to be honest with you right from the start and
I always want to let you know exactly what's going on in my head. So I
appreciate the feedback but at this stage I am going to unapologetically
continue to post the travel content as well as the aviation content on this
channel. Now sadly we do have to leave this amazing place we have to go in
about an hour and a half that gives me around 25 minutes of swimming five minutes to pack?