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.
iv come back home iv not long come back. it went better than I thought it would. she didny say anything and treated it as a normal day and so she didnt put me under preassure at home. with care home and home I dont like talking about my care home with my family. when I go home I keep them both seperate and for neither to interfere with the other so that helped aswell
when i go home the rules there are different to my care home. my care home makes new rules alot which i dont like. if you have rules they need to be the same as when you start. but the rules at home are usualy the same and are the same as they have allways been mostly they dont usualy change much year to year so theres more consistancy and im most familer with them more than anywhere else and its more predictable and consistant compared to the ones in my care home.
my care home has there own rules and my My Mum has her own rules so when i go home i can get away from a envirement im not happy in since i run into lots of diffucultys on lots of other levels besides just noise and things and alot of them caused by and due to the way the care home works for me.
the envirement at home is also normaly more tolerable noise level is more predictable on a more daily basis than the care home aswell. i also dont have much interaction with people. as close as i get is going out on a trip wildlife watching or something where there may be people out and about.
at home though i have my sisster and brother and the dogs. cause i like the dogs and my family do aswell i socialise more. cause the dogs are there i socialise longer and more often than I would do if they wernt there then i have other family I see sometimes. at home I get along with dad better than Mum and have more in common with him than Mum so spend alot of time with Dad and the dogs while Mum does stuff.
when I stay at home for nights say more than a week then i begin balacing my time with them with time on my own not spending too much time on my own cause I want to see my family and the dogs. not spending too much time with the dogs or my family othereise i get overwhelmed from being with people even though there my parents and also i have a problom where i dont like being on my own when Mum and Dad go out the room cause they arnt with me so i usualy acidently spending too much time with them or too much time on my own before sucessfuly balancing the two abit more.
me, Mum and Dad went to the cemetry but i couldnt take pictures since it was drizzly and I had wilber in one hand and my drink in the other hand with nowhere else to put it so I dont have any pictures for the other trips thread
It's nice that you spent time with Wilbur too. What drink was it? Do you have favourite foods and drinks?