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 thought i would update on how im doing before I was going to give it a couple of days but thats not the case now
because my throat has been such a pain literaly at night I asked the people that look after me yesterday if they could make an apointment with thew doctor and fustraitingly I had to wait literaly all morning until the afternoon for them to make it even though they knew it was such a pain for me last night but did it eventualy the only thing is when they tryed to make the apointment the doctors were way too busy and the one that made the call suposedly didnt tell the person on the phone that Iv had it for 3 weeks (not 1 or 2) if its been more than a week then its advised to see a doctor
and its cause iv had it so long i need to go to the doctors instead but she just told the doctor I got a sore throat and what iv said about it and so either the doctor, nurse or receptionist on the phone said if its just a sore throat then just go starit to the pharmacy to look at it cause there trying to get people to go to the pharmacy instead cause its too busy at the doctors for any more people so not much luck so far
Im trying to get my throat looked at and sorted this week and know that I need some sort of pain relief in the evenings and that is what is making me so desperate cause i cant continue going without it in the evening cause its too bad in the evenings to go all night without any and its usualy at its worse at night and is getting worse every day. the thing is the person that was on the phone to the person who phoned the doctor doesnt know me so wouldnt understand that I get nervous when i go to doctors so it isnt something i would of done if I didnt want it sorted so soon cause its gone on for so long. I also havnt got to a pharmacy to have a look at a sore throat before and for me it would be better in a room on my own with the person looking at it and not in a shop with people lined up or walking about its not the right option for everyone but cause she doesnt know me and the doctors are very busy with lots of patiants thats what he or she said to her
they said they would get back to her yesterday so she can refer me to the pharmacy. the thing is it seems like something a doctor should look at in my case cause of the duriation of my sore throat and also due to the fact it wouldnt be suitable for my autism sensory wise and it is also something unfamiler I havnt done before so the whole making an apointment didnt go aswell as exspected cause now its delayed by having to go to a pharmacy to have it looked at before i can even go to the doctors to have it looked at or delat with.
no one knows why its lasted more than 3 weeks or if theres something in it cause of where it is in my throat and how llong its lasted so I feell like my throat is being overlooked by the medical practice i usualy go to since they thought if its just a sore throat I dont need to go to the doctors for it.
so it wasnt taken to be as important as they should of given how long its been so its just left to hope that gets sorted.
in the meantime cause I cant be going without any type of painkillers every night I asked if i could have any ibroprofen but there wasnt any so I asked if we could get some more tomarow but there isnt a mar sheet for it so there going to do one and they dont know how its going to work so she will be asking about it tomarow so
to help my case particularly since i dont want to still have this throat on my next holiday that is after next week and have to keep putting up with it every night which isnt healthy sleep wise or even in general particularly since it could be an infecction now rather than just a passing cold.
I decided to draw where it is hurting cause even though i told them its all the way up and down my throat and the side and gave them various other symptoms that may be useful for them they keep repeating its at the bottom when it isnt just at the bottom. its almost like they sort of cut what i said in half like a cake and left the exsplanation and correction out to make things easyer so I decided to do a drawing to show them where it is tomarow I dont know weather I will need to show them or not but hopefuly not hopefuly they will sort the i broprofen out. im not getting my hopes up but hopefuly.
if my luck improves (if) then hopefuly I can be sore throat free for a change by the time I go on my next holiday which will be after next week