Wish Poosh is Closed for the season!


After being at Wish Poosh all summer we finally saw our Piliated Woodpecker! He flew right across the window of the car as we were driving out... what a wonder sight. There are many trees with scars from

this guy and as large a hole as he makes you would think it would kill the trees but no, we see where the tree heals and only a scar is left.. amazing.. of course right behind our rig was a cedar tree with about 5 holes from this guy and the tree is still thriving - although for how much longer is any ones guess. There is a family of small red squirrels living in that tree now and have been for a few months! they are cute as the dickens poking their little faces out of the holes but not sure the tree can survive! Only time will tell. Our plans at this point are not to return to Wish Poosh next season. We want to travel east, we have a new grandchild due any day over in Hawaii and Earl has major surgery on Oct 1 which will dictate everything... so for now, we are planning to stay close to west coast this fall/winter and work on a new itinerery as this progress!

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