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.
cause i dont like leaving details out of storys something that i meant to add as part of the story my family did drive there. I got dropped off and we got ready to leave when they got in the car to get the sat nav ready and Dad took forever cause his phone kept telling him the wrong amount of space on his phone and once room is made would then later tell him it is full when he hasnt added any exstra space which is the same problom i have with mine. for me though it has afected contact with my other family cause it wont install whats app due to the problom but for Dad its the sat nav and the data on it that its impacting causeing him fustration so Dad was very fustraited Mum said hers works and offered to do hers but Dad said no cause he has to do his and not hers cause he knows how to do it and kept trying to persuade him but he kept saying no cause he can only use his cause he doesnt know how it works even though Mum could help and do it instead we were sat in the car so long Mum got inpatient and said right im going to put this up here otherwise we are never going to get to the cabin by 2 and we will be late and was about to put it up but Dad then got more fustraited and took it off then he eventualy got it working and put it up. Dad wasnt born with autism and nor has he been diagnosed however at that moment in fustration and dis belief she said in the middle of shaking her head and sighing you have autism and so made it sound like autism is a negative thing even though it isnt
I have heard Mum say things like your a little autistic to my brother or pretty much anybody including things like your a little ocd and i know that some neurotypicals can use terms related to disabilitys in ways that can be misleading so im ususaly very quick to bring them up on it as i do if they says things that I know to be are un acurate or misleading and it has been used for real in correctly on lots of ocasions which is why I do that so I do have to put up with people in the house useing mis leading terms sometimes
so I was very quick to bring her up on it when she said that so I asked Mum why she said hes autistic and she said cause hes narrow minded and he cant think for himself he allways needs me to prompt him amoung other things and didnt say any traits she considers a positive aswell as.
I told her that haveing similar traits to autism like other disorders it doesnt nesacerilly mean you are born with it but doesnt mean arnt born with it either anyone can be narrow minded amoung other traits that you may or may not interpret, think or view to be similar to autism
but she calls him all sorts of things including narsisistic theres no fixed name it can be absoloutly anything at all and there usualy all a wide variety of names and terms related to those some that can be ofensive if put a certain way but has also called him names not associated with disabilitys aswell though
shes not the only one that does this though and cause autism amoung others do have stigma attached and phrases that can be used in a misleading way atached It does get my atention since she has a tendancy to do this and makes me very uncomfortable she doesnt undertsand how certain terms that can apear seemingly harmless can actualy turn out to be steriotypes or even misleading terms so i try to get her to understand it she doesnt use them all the time though thankfuly. that was a big bother before setting off but the rest of the drive evrything was fine.
the drive took a couple of hours as previously but we did stop at service stations. ziggy was with me in the back cause him and Alphie dont like being next to each other. auto correct corrected me and said bag but anyway I normaly see wildlife at service stations so i sometimes use my camara but we mainly stayed in the car. I was mainly eating or on my laptop or something I usualy have stuff to do on the journey as soon as we arived Mum told me it is on the water and that made me curious. we went inside and put our stuff down and i imedietly when outside and looked at the pond.
now later I put my memory card in my laptop and guess what happend a bird apeared or a duck this happened every day in a very timely way as if they knew when i was going to put my memory card in my laptop so i literaly kept having to take it out, take pictures and put it back in. I did get a breack at one point and succesfuly transfer the photos from that day though.
I also went for a walk with the dogs and then went somewhere else but that is in the next part
It is good that you are educating your family about correct use of terms and how sometimes they can be hurtful if always negative. Is he your biological father? I think your mum was just frustrated be she knew a way to solve the problem and she was worried about the time. It was probably difficult for her too.
Memory on phone and cards can be such a pain when it's running out. I'm glad that the sat nav eventually worked and that you got there. Many years ago when I used to use a proper camera (an early digital one), I had so many memory cards because they couldn't hold as much.
What a surprise to be on the water! Did you get a picture that shows how your accommodation was positioned? I can't picture it in my mind.
I knew that your family had other dogs. Was Wilbur not with you this time?