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My Wildlife holidays.

Zo

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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  • iv come back from home. we went strait for a walk which i wasnt exspecting.  there was people cutting trees shorter in the garden at home Dad said cause they were too tall. 

    twhen i got back from the walk I asked Mum if the social worker can see me and when. the social worker has got back to Mum and said that she is on holiday and she is busy and of course that im shy so cant see me which i didnt have a good reaction to. I tryed to exsplain to Mum I would find it easyer to show her directly which is why i want to see her. im not going to be comfortable giving it to Mum to send to her even though she does need to be invlolved. Mum thought i was tyring to say that i dont want to involve her but what i was trying to say is simply that giiving my social worker the reasons directly rather than to say staff to send to her or to my Mum to send to her and she just kept repeating what i already knew that she said for me to do. write everything down so that she can give it to my social worker so from that conversation i could tell she didnt undertsand what it was that i was asking. problom is it is about who im more likely to feell comfortable opening up to and discussing it with so neither Mum nor the ssocial worker understands where im coming from as to why i want to see her. I found this very stressful. 

    if my social worker would understand why i couldnt tell her and why it wasnt easy for me to tell her aswell as why i couldnt have a proper conversation about it for instance i was going to be going home and i though she only came to ask if im happy or not and then leave and not realised she would of wanted a proper chat about it and even if we could of would of been too much for me all in one day and plus all that busy week i had. what i thought she was going to come back to Mum with was i can do this day or that day since im busy but it wasnt anything like that so i have no idea how im going to get this written and given cause my Mum wont undertsand what i say and it is only for the social worker. i would also want to be there when she looks at them which is something you cant do on the other side of a devicw and to make sure she understands i will probably want to exspalin it to her but none of this is possible if what Mum told me is anything to go by. 

    we mainly spent time with the dogs. Dad made a comment about something what he said was related to a study comparing people and something else and it was a topic on hyper sensitivaty in that something else and making comaprisons.   it caused me to become skeptical and so i asked him if he knows about the study and how it was conducted or weather they included people who are hypersensitive or not or weather it was people without hypersensitivaty involved in the study or weather it was both aswell as how many and weather it was a mixed gender study or study relating to only males and females or weather male and female  wasnt a factor and wether it was a large study or not and he said he doesnt know but that he knows it means everyone just cause it says people and nothing more so i made it clear to him that its just his belief that that is what it means if he doesnt know anything about the study and what people were involved in it and that he should be careful about what he says  even though i didnt say he was right or wrong and just wanted details about the study Dad who has a short temper sometimes then got anoyed and i got anoyed cause he kept repeating himself rather than looking up the study and having an interesting conversation with each other in relation to it and cause im hypersensitive  i found it stressful.

    it caused me to be fustraited with him for the  i was interested and thought it would be interesting for us to research and discuss the study together but he was more interested in repeating the same thing over and over rather than listening and being understanding so Mum walked out the room.

    i. managed to settle it mostly with him and we do mostly get along but when things happen with my family it can leave me fustraited for a long time other  other than that the day went ok and I have pictures i could add the day thread just thought i would provide an update about the social worker 

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  • iv come back from home. we went strait for a walk which i wasnt exspecting.  there was people cutting trees shorter in the garden at home Dad said cause they were too tall. 

    twhen i got back from the walk I asked Mum if the social worker can see me and when. the social worker has got back to Mum and said that she is on holiday and she is busy and of course that im shy so cant see me which i didnt have a good reaction to. I tryed to exsplain to Mum I would find it easyer to show her directly which is why i want to see her. im not going to be comfortable giving it to Mum to send to her even though she does need to be invlolved. Mum thought i was tyring to say that i dont want to involve her but what i was trying to say is simply that giiving my social worker the reasons directly rather than to say staff to send to her or to my Mum to send to her and she just kept repeating what i already knew that she said for me to do. write everything down so that she can give it to my social worker so from that conversation i could tell she didnt undertsand what it was that i was asking. problom is it is about who im more likely to feell comfortable opening up to and discussing it with so neither Mum nor the ssocial worker understands where im coming from as to why i want to see her. I found this very stressful. 

    if my social worker would understand why i couldnt tell her and why it wasnt easy for me to tell her aswell as why i couldnt have a proper conversation about it for instance i was going to be going home and i though she only came to ask if im happy or not and then leave and not realised she would of wanted a proper chat about it and even if we could of would of been too much for me all in one day and plus all that busy week i had. what i thought she was going to come back to Mum with was i can do this day or that day since im busy but it wasnt anything like that so i have no idea how im going to get this written and given cause my Mum wont undertsand what i say and it is only for the social worker. i would also want to be there when she looks at them which is something you cant do on the other side of a devicw and to make sure she understands i will probably want to exspalin it to her but none of this is possible if what Mum told me is anything to go by. 

    we mainly spent time with the dogs. Dad made a comment about something what he said was related to a study comparing people and something else and it was a topic on hyper sensitivaty in that something else and making comaprisons.   it caused me to become skeptical and so i asked him if he knows about the study and how it was conducted or weather they included people who are hypersensitive or not or weather it was people without hypersensitivaty involved in the study or weather it was both aswell as how many and weather it was a mixed gender study or study relating to only males and females or weather male and female  wasnt a factor and wether it was a large study or not and he said he doesnt know but that he knows it means everyone just cause it says people and nothing more so i made it clear to him that its just his belief that that is what it means if he doesnt know anything about the study and what people were involved in it and that he should be careful about what he says  even though i didnt say he was right or wrong and just wanted details about the study Dad who has a short temper sometimes then got anoyed and i got anoyed cause he kept repeating himself rather than looking up the study and having an interesting conversation with each other in relation to it and cause im hypersensitive  i found it stressful.

    it caused me to be fustraited with him for the  i was interested and thought it would be interesting for us to research and discuss the study together but he was more interested in repeating the same thing over and over rather than listening and being understanding so Mum walked out the room.

    i. managed to settle it mostly with him and we do mostly get along but when things happen with my family it can leave me fustraited for a long time other  other than that the day went ok and I have pictures i could add the day thread just thought i would provide an update about the social worker 

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