My Wildlife holidays.

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. 

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  • im leaving to go to a scan a less invasive one that doesnt require radiation and not noisy to check my kidneys cause of my rare condition Tuberous sclerosis cause it also afecte them not just my brain so I will be going to that soon but when im back il see the coments if there is any on my wildlife guess who game post and finish of part 3 and 4 of my wildlife holiday on here 

  • I hope that the scan wasn't too stressful. I am looking forward to reading more of your posts.

    I love the bees, and what is that longer bodied wasp/hornet looking one?

    I think my favourite is the treecreeper. I'd never heard of them before.

    I also want to hear more about your dogs, Wilbur and Willow! 'Romanian rescue' sounds intriguing.

  • there was one part that was stressful which was that I thought they were going to use the name im called now and not the one I used to be called when I was younger and it got shouted across the room which caused me dysphoria cause now a little boy and a man asumes i identify as what i was labeled based solely on the name that is usualy seen as feminine and one of the things i hate most is it shouted out for everyone in the whole room to hear both out and about too its not just limited to hospitals  and I dont want to be seen as the label i was given at birth  cause its not how I identify as. theres a differance between biological sex and gender identity and I didnt want how i was labeled revealed in such a public place and defantly not shouted across the room. the shouting caused me anxiety and then i did adress to the receptionist the name i prefer to be called for reasons that im transgender earlier but she obviously didnt pass it on and I also wasnt exspecting my dead name it to be used in the hospital or shouted at the very least. my dysphoria is bad enough as it is cause iv been to a gender clinic in hopes of getting hormones so that my body is congruent with my identity and so its hard to exsplain what it feells like when someone shouts your dead name across the room exspecialy in a public place. aparantly what they did is put the name i identify as right next to my dead name which is what caused the problom. the reason I thought they would call me by the correct name i identify with is cause my tuberous sclerosis exspert changed and corrected all his papaerwork to reflect my actual identity and that was at a hospital so things didnt go well in that sense it is making me contemplate getting my name changed legaly so that its on my passport and other legal papaerwork and things to avoid dysphoric situations like what happened at the hospital 

    and he kept calling me the wrong name and pronouns in the room and struggled to get a word in I kept opening my mouth but before i could speak he spoke so in the end Mum had to but in and tell him my prefered name and it was then I had a gap to tell him im transgender so that he knows its not just a nickname or something like that since some people call each other nicknames.  I took my ear defenders but noise wasnt an issue in the end and it was very quiet it was just the complication of being transgender and not yet having my name changed legaly 

  • Thank you for sharing this. What a journey!

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