Published on 12, July, 2020
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.
just to exsplain things better about why I cant post my holiday at the monent. you would think posting my holiday would take my mind of it cause its about wildlife
but my brain knows my memorys of my holiday also involves my sore throat - I had to have i broprofen and then in the evening 3 bottles of water of which I usualy went through two and started on the 3rd.
and so for this reason it doesnt take my mind off my cold so that im not thinking about it too much.
even if I dont think about the cold element my brain already knows that my cold was also a theme that also ocured.
so posting my holiday would remind me of my cold cause of how my brain works
(holiday) cold,
cold (present)
this is why in order to take my mimd of my sore throat the topic literaly has to be un related to anything that could make me think about my cold and thsts why I cant do my holiday trip at the moment
its so that im thinkng about things without any elements that involves things like colds and what not so that I can take my mind of it until things sort themselfs out
taking my mind of things usualy works when I have a cold
I totally understand. I hope that you get better soon.
thanks. it doesnt nesacerily mean I wont be active in the community. I will probably still be active to a certain exstent. and I dont mind talking about the dogs or doing the guess who game or talking about Wildlife in general and other things im interested in and things like that its just thinking about and writeing about this Wildlife holiday I went on recently.
with the dogs we actualy have Wilber Lucy, Lola, willow and Max. Mum usualy takes the ones that are best behaved with other dogs since on holidays in general we are bound to come across other dogs. Lucy is too outspoken and even howls if she sees another dog and lola isnt the best either. Max is too mych of a nervous dog and gets scared of strangers.
we dont normaly take wilber cause hes not the best with dogs either but we did last week.
we usualy just take Willow who is the best behaved om holidays and the non romanian rescues Alphie and ziggy. Alphie likes going on holiday but ziggy has seperation anxiety so cant stay behind even though he doesnt like dogs. so all together its usualy Willow Alphie and Ziggy
all the romanian rescues have differant exsperiances as a dog thats been rescued through adoption from Romanina.
they used to be Wild dogs. they were born from there parents out on the street and had to learn how to survive from there.
rather than being born through methods of domestication
and so were considered strays that had to learn how to survive on there own. people in strays in romania and then decided they dont want them and dont treat them properly and chuck them out
for instance with lucy she was found closed up in a bag with puppys
Max was tied to a post outside as a puppy and his eventualy collar dug in and injured him as he got older
Willow we arnt a hundred percent sure about her but we know that she jist like the others may have been hit at some point cause if you raise your hand willow imedietly gets scared and asumes your going to hit her
Lola I havnt asked much details about
but Wilbur is one of those that wasnt owned and literally Lived out on the streets by digging and learning how to find food himself amoung other things
none of the romanian rescues were bred they were born out in the wild by there mother and lived out on the streets some get taken in some dont
if they get thrpwm out they leave them to be found by someone else or to be caught by the dog catchers trying to control the strays but they dont do it via humane methods and mis treat them and put them on death row and only a certain ampunt can be adopted at a time
Mum adopted them from a romaninan rescue charity that goes over and brings them to england for adoption
Mum and Dad prefers romanian Rescues to ones that have been cross bred.
unfortunatly the other romanian rescues other than Max and Wilbur didnt get to know as puppys but Wilber amd Max I did.
Max took months to get used to use cause of his feat of strangers it used to be that I couldnt walk in or anyone else without him barking out of fear due to being mis treated in Romania but is no longer the case now. you just have to remember to try not to do anything he could mis interpret as threatening like unpredictability sudden noise or sudden movements and then theres body language like if he thinks your staring at him even if your not he can percive that as challangeing him even if your not aware of it
the one that Iv bondest most with is wilber. ever since he was little hes allways been a nervous dog and has never been the type to sit on peoples laps I was the only one whos lap he would sit on as a puppy and when he got older he got less nervous and so is alot better and sits on other peoples laps aswell at times
Thank you for sharing about your dogs. I love dogs. I love them to bits. Unfortunately I am allergic to animals. Horses and cats very badly (hospital!), but dogs are bearable. Luckily, as I got into middle age, this got a lot better. And I also recently heard of hypoallergenic dogs, that I have much less of a reaction too.
My sister-in-law's dog is hypoallergenic. And I lover her to bits. I get to look after her, and have done so four times in the past 12 months since they got her as a puppy.
I've shared a few pictures of her on this board, but here is another anyway. It was taken about a week ago...
She sees me as a special fried. One time, we looked after her for a month which really cemented our relationship. When I visit, a get a very long and noisy welcome that other visitors do not get.
Growing up, our family had five dogs over the years (not at the same time.) As my allergies got worse, I used to wear a face mask in the house (many many years before COVID!).
I think we'll get a dog in the next 5 years or so.
I think that it is great that you have rescue dogs. Our family had all types. Rescue, bred, re-homed. My wife says that I still go misty eyed when I talk about my old dogs.
Wilber sounds great!