Nuts to the weather

Hi all,
I am referring to the Nut at Stanley in north western Tasmania. I have been here for 5 nights now and will finally be on the move tomorrow, Sunday. I came in from Ulverstone on Tuesday as I had a few things fixed up by a marvellous chap there. Luckily one of the jobs he sorted out was my leaks! the bed and dining table kept getting wet when it rained. Later that day after he squeezed silicon around all my windows, and tightened the door lock, and looked at my battery gauges, and screwed on the new awning attachment, after I had driven on my merry way , the skies opened and tested the leakproofing. Thank god it worked!
I was picturing myself sitting around in a motel or something to get dry. but I booked into a caravan park and turned on the reverse cycle aircon  and dried out the bedding and was as snug as a bug in a rug.
 I continued across the North of Tassie to Stanley, which is a real cute looking place (if only i could add photos you would see what I mean!), all lovely coloured weatherboard houses with contrast trims all about 90+ years old, in the lee of the NUT. This is a plug from an extinct volcano, looks variously like a plum pudding or something just sticking up out of fairly lowlying country.
Anyway the weather got worse, gale force winds (at one stage over 90knots), and torrential rain non stop for 2 days, and then fairly consistent for the next 2 days. The old doigs donga was fairly rocking I can tell you! I certainly didn't care to be driving in those conditions. Well to make things more interesting i had developed some stiffness and pain in my right leg and thigh, maybe from driving as there is no way on these roads I am using cruise controll! So I had booked a massage with a local lady , right in the middle of one of these squalls! I managed to find a poncho from when I was in New York, and off I set. First off I had yo hold the hood down with one hand , so all the sleeve and arm got soaked, then I was saturated fromn the knees down, my shoes filled with water and my socks were just totally sodden. I made it to the massage! stripped off and did she give me the once over,! told me to have a hot shower and get into bed, as she really had to work hard to get the kinks out of my legs. I have the bruises to prove it too! But I do feel a lot better. My shoes still have not dried out, and I threw the socks in the bin. i kept extending my stay, and finally yesterday it stopped raining in the afternoon, and today it even had the sun out.!
 I walked around the town for about an hour yesterday and today I took the chairlift up to the top of the Nut. (i had to walk to the chairlift though!) and up the top it was another howling gale, but I perserverd and walked around the circuit path, supposed to take about half an hour, but it took me almost an hour! but I saw, and took some photos of poteroos, they are little tiny kangaroos, bit bigger than a quokka, (for the west australians_) and also identified the shearwater nests (burrows). So I achieved what i wanted to do by coming to Stanley, as when doug and I came about 7/8 years ago we had a lousy day then too and the chairlift doesn't run if it is more than 40 knots.
So really it hasn't been very interesting week as far as what I have seen but I am safe, dry, and not flooded out. I feel so sorry for the dreadful floods the Qlders  are having and WA with its bushfires. I hope all you my readers are safe. good luck and i will hopefully have a more lively week next week. cheers
vicki