Wednesday, September 19, 2018

Dog on the Tuckerbox Gunda Gai

gundagai tucker box from en.m.wikipedia.org
The Dog on the Tuckerbox is an Australian historical monument and ... the Dog Sits on the Tuckerbox (5 miles from Gundagai)", was published in 1937


Another positive experience in the country:

Situated on the banks of the Murrumbidgee River and nestling at the foot of Mount Parnassus in the beautiful Murrumbidgee Valley

Note the Tuckerbox Motor Inn, Gundagai, Gundagai's only 4 star motel.  Just off the Hume Highway, opposite the Shell Service Station at South Gundagai, it is the perfect accommodation stopover between Sydney and Melbourne or Adelaide.  
Historians were outraged at the idea of moving the iconic statue from its spot of 
77 years, just off the Hume Highway / Circa 2007

Historians are outraged at the idea of moving the iconic statue from its spot of 77 years, just off the Hume Highway, to the far end of town to drag tourists through it, The Daily Telegraph reports.

The town is split between those who want tourist dollars funnelled into their drought-stricken tills and those outraged at the changing of history. 


Australian National Busking Championships - ANBC Gundagai June 2018


Only in Australia could a dog that fouled the food of our early settlers become immortalized in stone and be one of our most famous icons. But that is not the only irony behind the 'Dog on the Tuckerbox' statue situated at Gundagai on the main highway half way between Sydney and Melbourne.