bravenet.com| Gundagai |
| "There's a track winding
back, from an old fashioned shack, Along the road to Gundagai." No place in Australia has had more songs and verse written about it than the New South Wales town of Gundagai. "The Road to Gundagai" "Nine Miles from Gundagai" "Along the road to Gundagai" During World War 2 the song of the day was: "When a Boy from Alabama meets a Girl from Gundagai" The first settlement was made along the banks of the Murrumbidgee River, where in 1852, flood wiped out 30% of the towns population, 89 people drowned. This was the worst flood disaster in Australian History. In the cemetry of Gundagai is the grave of Yarri, an Aborigine who rescued many in his bark canoe. Gundagai is now built on the slopes of Mt. Parnassus. At five mile creek, not far from Gundagai sits the famous statue of the ' dog on the tuckerbox.' The dog on the tuckerbox is mentioned in song and is part of Aussie folklore. It was at the creek where the bullock drivers stopped and had their tucker, or camped for awhile. Frank Rusconi, who lived the greater part of his life at Gundagai, paid tribute to the dog on the tucker box by erecting a bronze statue of him in 1932. Gundagai or 'Gundy' as its also know, is an Aboriginal word meaning 'going upstream'. Murrumbidgee is also an Aboriginal word and means 'big water'. The dog on the tucker box 9 miles from Gundagai. An Aussie icon |
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| pronounced: gun-d-guy |
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