Gundagai's favourite attraction, the dog on the tuckerbox, is usually thought of as a monument to a loyal and much loved four legged friend. The original poem that inspired the legend, however, shows that the story got changed somewhere along the way. Old Bullocky Bill was having a really bad day, and to top it off, his dog sat on the tuckerbox. Except that the word has been changed. See the original second verse as displayed nowadays on the plaque at the site!
Along the road to Gundagai we saw, along with the small dog, a very big merino ram, and that paragon of old fashioned country town epicurian sophistication, the Paragon Cafe in Goulburn. It's always been an appealing stop on the trip down the Hume. Recently the once dark and dusty wooden country town interior has got all zizzed up, and it's up there with any city slicker eating place now.
We also saw some rather wild weather and very black sky. But we made it home OK from our little October road trip to eastern Victoria.
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