A Love Story Interrupted by a Bison Attack

Outside Podcast

Sports, Wilderness

4.4 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

It’s an established fact that outdoorsy people have the best stories about dating. Getting to know a potential partner while climbing, paddling, or otherwise exploring an unpredictable environment just offers more opportunities for memorable surprises. Usually, these experiences are shared with friends over beers. Sometimes they make their way into wedding toasts. And then there are the incidents that make headlines. So it was with Kayleigh Davis and Kyler Bourgeous’s encounters with some ornery bison on an island in Utah’s Great Salt Lake. This episode comes from the award-wining team at This is Love, a show that investigates life’s most persistent mystery. This episode of the Outside Podcast is brought to you by Visit Florida, one of the country’s great adventure destinations. Have you met a manatee? Airboated in the Everglades? Snorkeled the coral reef? Plan your next Florida adventure at visitflorida.com/outside

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0:00.0	This episode of the Outside Podcast is brought to you by Visit Florida,
0:04.0	one of the country's great adventure destinations,
0:07.0	and also the home of four-time wakeboarding
0:09.4	Wernal Champion Sean Murray.
0:11.6	Hi, my name's Sean Murray, professional wakeboarder living here in Orlando, Florida.
0:16.0	Central Florida is like the biggest place for wakeboarding because the nearly year-round riding
0:22.0	and all of just the water. There's lakes everywhere here.
0:25.2	It's true. Florida may be best known for its incredible beaches, but the state also has more than 30,000 lakes,
0:31.9	most of them inside protected natural reserves.
0:35.6	Just north of Sean's home in Orlando is the Ocala National Forest, known for its crystal
0:40.5	clear freshwater springs. This is also where you can find the world's
0:44.8	largest sand pine scrub forest ecosystem. You know before I moved to Florida being a
0:50.3	California kid I always thought that Florida would be just like palm trees and old people driving pink catalax.
0:56.0	The first surprise for me was it's mostly pine trees.
1:00.0	The Ocala National Forest offers more than a hundred miles of dedicated trails for hiking,
1:05.1	cycling and horseback riding. And when you're in the mood for water sports, like Sean usually is,
1:10.8	there's canoeing beneath old-growth trees on the legendary juniper run, snorkeling in
1:15.5	Alexander Springs and wakeboarding on numerous lakes. Whatever you're doing, you're
1:20.6	almost guaranteed spectacular weather.
1:23.0	We as Floridians are known as being very picky for like perfect conditions
1:29.0	because if it's not really nice out it'll get nice soon. You know whether you're like
1:34.1	wakeboarding or paddleboarding or whatever it is if you're out on the water you're
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