{"id":183,"date":"2022-08-22T19:01:45","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T18:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/overcomingmountains.com\/?p=183"},"modified":"2025-06-10T22:31:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T21:31:44","slug":"a-visit-to-see-the-seals-in-chichester-harbour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/overcomingmountains.com\/blog\/?p=183","title":{"rendered":"A visit to see the seals in Chichester Harbour"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d25832656d0d5a57698cfe44b12a6a3a wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019ve been making an effort to try new things and get out to meet new people. This hasn\u2019t been easy with that little voice of anxiety chattering away but I\u2019m determined not to let that stop me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-medium\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/overcomingmountainscom.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/96c19242-9828-46e5-aab5-f3f7019ea944.jpeg?w=300\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-186\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d158a8892f5834416ea338e7e8f1635e wp-block-paragraph\">Sunday 21 August was one of the days for something new &#8211; a trip to see the seals in Chichester Harbour. There was an added layer of anxiety since I\u2019d appeared on BBC South Today and the worry of what people may think of me. Over the last four and a bit years I\u2019ve been working hard to unlearn some old beliefs and to not over analyse or over think situations. Putting lots of that learning into practice in preparing to meet the people I\u2019ll meet on the harbour trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-medium\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/overcomingmountainscom.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/cca26b2a-a79c-4fc6-8035-1e430d47233b.jpeg?w=300\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-187\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-095548b07d6433810923b855e5d7d8de wp-block-paragraph\">It was an early-ish start for me. Up at 8:00 to leave by 10:00 to give me enough time to get parked and Amani sorted before meeting the group. Before even leaving the parking lot I met one lady who was part of the trip. Super lovely and she made a fuss of Amani. She also happened to be a cat lover. There was a group of about 20 of us and we were on 2 boats. The skippers were great and were more than happy to have Amani aboard. A first for them. And it so happens that they aren\u2019t allowed to take dogs on trips to see the seals as dogs have communicable diseases they can share with the seals but cats are most welcome. That made a nice change especially as I didn\u2019t have to explain and fight to get on board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d568257ecfb562e3ed20fb9213cf29a9 wp-block-paragraph\">The seals were being helpful today. I joked with our skipper that it was having Amani on board. There were quite a few of them relaxing on the shore and some playing in the water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"193\" src=\"https:\/\/overcomingmountainscom.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/9d9710f0-fe7f-4dfb-8484-c7fa241ee016.jpeg?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-193\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"191\" src=\"https:\/\/overcomingmountainscom.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ac519ee3-3324-4eb2-9181-bd653ad0e997.jpeg?w=639\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-191\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"192\" src=\"https:\/\/overcomingmountainscom.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/e931e126-df30-4b67-90a9-d7b95ccdc311.jpeg?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-192\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"189\" src=\"https:\/\/overcomingmountainscom.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/bf67bd02-2cd5-49fc-b545-292e32cdd6ec.jpeg?w=819\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-189\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"190\" src=\"https:\/\/overcomingmountainscom.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/23de032c-0b8b-4f34-a703-26c768fbf3ae.jpeg?w=819\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-190\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1d6f2bafe8ef6b6579a326c1f0cdb8fd wp-block-paragraph\">Amani was so well behaved as usual with everyone commenting on how chilled out she is. I got to share more about accessibility and emotional support animals which is always good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-239d07bf6d32707b269dc06e311662c7 wp-block-paragraph\">I got home around 15:30 and crashed. I was absolutely exhausted and had a 2-3 hour snooze. Social events or any type of outing really drains me of energy which is why pacing is so important so this coming week will be as slow as possible with just my regular Pilates classes and work being the priorities and taking afternoon naps when needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing to push outside my comfort zone, trying new things and meeting new people<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[13,21,18,14,23],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-emotional-support-animal","tag-fatigue","tag-fibromyalgia","tag-mental-health","tag-social-anxiety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/overcomingmountains.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/overcomingmountains.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/overcomingmountains.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/overcomingmountains.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/overcomingmountains.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/overcomingmountains.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1623,"href":"https:\/\/overcomingmountains.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions\/1623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/overcomingmountains.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/overcomingmountains.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/overcomingmountains.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}