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My Wildlife holidays.

Zo
1 month ago

Iv decided to do a forum on my wildlife holidays where I can tell you about my holiday rather than just sending pictures 

cause iv been on lots of them this year rather than only sending photos. also proper  trips il tell you about and add photos to go with it on this post aswell.  cause it will be easyer and better for me but is also  for holidays cause im going on lots of holidays this year and it deserves its own thread in this sense. 

my first holiday I went on this year was Wales. I went to Snowdonia near the national park 

we saw a lamma and a  pony

with  the view we got from the cottage we stayed in was of the sea 

Jackdaws perched on the buildings when we watched tv we went for a walk and I got great pictures of the moutains 

you could see them on the beach outline at the beach the waves I saw a literally called gray heron fly past 

the waves crashed against the rocks and became fully submerged until they broke and forced its way over.  my long lens saved my life by getting me up close enough to photograph the waders and I saw Great crested grebes.

back at the cottage herring gulls at Jackdaws

 the next day we went to the waterfalls I saw yellow gorse.

the water level was high but not flooded. it was a adventure and the gorse made it look colourful

it was massive then we went down the mountain the next day we went to the sea again and I saw a cormerent. there was lots of bladder wrack which is a type of seaweed. 

seaweed are actualy a type of algae. some can surve out the water for a certain period of time. others dont survive as well it depends on the type cause theres different types of seaweed. 

this one is normaly mistake for seaweed but is actualy a type of animal instead 

in July 

im very used to wildlife watching in the uk and while I have been to menorca I havnt wildlife watched there cause I didnt have an interest in Wildlife then so this was my first time wildlife watching in a different country. 

I allways have to wear ear defenders when i go to the air port but they had disability asistance. I had to improvise cause the person that supports me that went with me hasnt gone on holiday with me before and didnt know what to say or do with my sensory challanges at the airport. the person that was with me said she thinks il be fine but I knew cause of my autism cant deal with crowds so I said I have autism and I dont like crowds so would it be ok to go where its less busy or quiter and so she took me through. there was a point where we wernt sure if I had to take my ear defenders off at the part where you have to walk through and them see if you got metal on you so I asked the lady there if I could keep them on and she went off to ask the person behind the thing you have to walk through. I was very anxious at this point. it was time to put our items on the coveyerbelt and walk through the metal thing. The person with me for the holiday and me still didnt know so I was panicing inside and i was told to take them off by the person taking me which i was reluctant to do but the plaine lady came over and thumbed up us saying not to take them off and that  i can keep them on and we went through. the flight was delayed by an hour. but it was no ones fault cause they had to help somone who couldnt walk onto the plane. so we walked and stopped every 5 minutes so people were joking about that and inpatient at the same time. eventually we got on though at last. I filmed the take off and we went over the bay of biscay on the way to Tenerife 

when landing I saw mount tede from above the clouds.

the next day I saw a canarian chiffchaff 

and I saw a Spanish sparrow for the first time. they were breeding at the hotel.

but one of my biggest highlights was snorkeling for the very first time

and the dolphins which i got to see for the very first time

 and mount tede a active volcano with many species only found on that mountain I saw crystal on a rock 

that was the last day. the next day we went on a trip but when it came to packing bags for the trip. I put my bag with the plastic bag on it ontop of my suitcase then gave it to her with the plastic bag on it but took it off and thought that she was going to put the bag in cause it didnt only have my stuff in the bag and as far as I knew the plastic bag was in the boot but at some point in the journey I wondered where the bag was and thought it might be in the boot cause i couldnt see it in the back. we checked the boot and it wasnt there. 

my ear defenders got left behind which was problomatic cause the person with me wasnt willing to go back and get the ear defenders and  soon we had to go to the air port. I was highly anxious and I found it diffucult getting her to understand the why it is important enough that we do have to go back anf get them we bought some silenceing headphones as an emergancy cause otherwise I wouldnt of been able to get on the plane. we went through disability asisstance. the plane was delayed by a couple of hours and we wernt able to get on until midnight. a teenager had a go in a wheelchair and a little boy was going up and down a slope behind me which i found acted as visual stimulation and made my anxiety worse. it isnt thetre fault its just cause im autistic but thanfuly things did cam down and at 12 o'clock we  lined up and got on the plane and came back to the uk by 4 or 5 oclock in the morning. 

Parents
  • 13 days ago

    im back from Holiday now. we went to Delemare forest in Cheshire. im going to have to do it in parts like part 1 2 and 3 otherwise it will be too long. 

    part 1 

    we were actually meant to go into a different cabin to the one that we ended up going in but cause of a plumbing problom 

    we got put into one we wernt origionaly suposed to have called a golden oak treehouse which is a treehouse but 

    also a cabin. me and my Mum and Dad all wanted the room with a massive window that faces more into the woods than the road and I didnt want one that faces the road but I also liked the treehouse and allways wanted to use a treehouse so I was going to try the treehouse cause its literaly in the woods and it has a tv and a balcony so we agreed I would try it that night and if i dont like it use the other room i liked. however that night I mistakenly activated my over active imaganation by watching crimes of grindwald with Dad in the evening and then going out in the dark with mum and dad to take the dogs for a walk while on the walk I was nervous about going in the treehouse part of the cabin cause it was away from Mum and Dad and I would be on my own and I feell very  insecure and seperated when im away from my parents and csn make me feell lonely and so I had all sorts of thoughts like being un lucky and having the cabin broken into while im in there or anything else that could possibly go wrong that I would have no control over from the outside so even though hallucinations arnt particularly nice during the day there not in the night either and if anything there one of the reasons i get scared of the dark so being nervous about the cabin my stress triggered hallucinations like it can during the day too if I get stressed so was busy transforming posts into people in complete darkness. even when im nervous i can still be humorous or funny though so ended up saying funny things and   I ended up compromising and saying can I go in the other room tonight and try the treehouse tomarow and exsplained that its cause of watching that movie then going strait in the dark  Mum said ok. but it was a sudden change going from there to another room and I ended up with having headache tablets and keeping telling Mum that im going to try tomarow and spent most of the night thinking about the treehouse. I had wilber with me one of the dogs with me that same night though. that same day though I had looked for some places me and Mum and Dad could go to cause im good at finding things that are good. (not just places but objects, certain infomation amoung many other things. Mum and Dad dont know how i know how to find alot of the good things I find and how i know where to look or find it cause im good at finding good things in general for alot of things i find but i unfortunatly dont know the answer but i know im good at maps and I have found good places for them for us to visit on holidays before. I find out where then let Dad know. and have rather strong tendancy to look for places with rare habitats or that have rare or if not rare just very  interesting animals. the habitats are easyer but weather we see the species we want to see or not is allways like a game of dice rolling a dice and see what number it lands on or a game of chance. but it adds exitment and adventure cause you dont know wha you might see. I found them two locations close by 

    but the first one we went to was Black lake nature reserve 

    before we went we took the dogs for a walk and spent some time at the cabin

    heres some pictures from a walk with the dogs first 

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  • 13 days ago

    im back from Holiday now. we went to Delemare forest in Cheshire. im going to have to do it in parts like part 1 2 and 3 otherwise it will be too long. 

    part 1 

    we were actually meant to go into a different cabin to the one that we ended up going in but cause of a plumbing problom 

    we got put into one we wernt origionaly suposed to have called a golden oak treehouse which is a treehouse but 

    also a cabin. me and my Mum and Dad all wanted the room with a massive window that faces more into the woods than the road and I didnt want one that faces the road but I also liked the treehouse and allways wanted to use a treehouse so I was going to try the treehouse cause its literaly in the woods and it has a tv and a balcony so we agreed I would try it that night and if i dont like it use the other room i liked. however that night I mistakenly activated my over active imaganation by watching crimes of grindwald with Dad in the evening and then going out in the dark with mum and dad to take the dogs for a walk while on the walk I was nervous about going in the treehouse part of the cabin cause it was away from Mum and Dad and I would be on my own and I feell very  insecure and seperated when im away from my parents and csn make me feell lonely and so I had all sorts of thoughts like being un lucky and having the cabin broken into while im in there or anything else that could possibly go wrong that I would have no control over from the outside so even though hallucinations arnt particularly nice during the day there not in the night either and if anything there one of the reasons i get scared of the dark so being nervous about the cabin my stress triggered hallucinations like it can during the day too if I get stressed so was busy transforming posts into people in complete darkness. even when im nervous i can still be humorous or funny though so ended up saying funny things and   I ended up compromising and saying can I go in the other room tonight and try the treehouse tomarow and exsplained that its cause of watching that movie then going strait in the dark  Mum said ok. but it was a sudden change going from there to another room and I ended up with having headache tablets and keeping telling Mum that im going to try tomarow and spent most of the night thinking about the treehouse. I had wilber with me one of the dogs with me that same night though. that same day though I had looked for some places me and Mum and Dad could go to cause im good at finding things that are good. (not just places but objects, certain infomation amoung many other things. Mum and Dad dont know how i know how to find alot of the good things I find and how i know where to look or find it cause im good at finding good things in general for alot of things i find but i unfortunatly dont know the answer but i know im good at maps and I have found good places for them for us to visit on holidays before. I find out where then let Dad know. and have rather strong tendancy to look for places with rare habitats or that have rare or if not rare just very  interesting animals. the habitats are easyer but weather we see the species we want to see or not is allways like a game of dice rolling a dice and see what number it lands on or a game of chance. but it adds exitment and adventure cause you dont know wha you might see. I found them two locations close by 

    but the first one we went to was Black lake nature reserve 

    before we went we took the dogs for a walk and spent some time at the cabin

    heres some pictures from a walk with the dogs first 

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