gundagai - [+ BALD and BEAUTIFUL +]

Awal tahun arituh baru perasan yang passport nanti mati hujung bulan 5. Ingatkan tahun nie cuti ester bulan 4 macam tahun lepas, rupanya silap. Cuti kali ni hujung bulan 3 then pastuh takde cuti dah sampai la abes sem

Kat Australia nie, kalau Malaysian nak renew passport kena pegi submit application in-person kat Malaysian High Commission,MHC in Canberra. Sebab start 01-Jan-2008, MHC dah tak terima lagi dah application melalui pos.

Kebetulan plak International Student Association, ISA anjurkan tour ke Sydney-Canberra. Apa laie, dah alang2 kena g Canb baik pegi meronggeng sungguh2

Bertolak dari LTBU (La Trobe University, Bundoora) pkl 0630. 12 jam dalam bas! Bak kata orang utagha "punya la lama, sampai naik berkematu pungkoq"

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Gundagai - Charming historic township on the banks of the Murrumbidgee River

Gundagai, forever associated with the dog on the tuckerbox in Australian folklore, is situated on the Murrumbidgee River at the foot of Mt Parnassus, 387 km south-west of Sydney. It is located just off the Hume Highway about halfway between Yass and Holbrook at an elevation of 225 m.

Perhaps more than any other Australian town, Gundagai has proved an irresistible subject with writers of popular verse. This perhaps relates to the fact that Five Mile Creek, to the north of town, was a popular meeting place with teamsters, drovers, shearers and bush travellers. The famous story of the Dog on the Tuckerbox is discussed in Things to See. 'Lazy Harry', 'On the Road to Gundagai' and 'Flash Jack from Gundagai' are three anonymous poems relating to the town. The latter two were first published in 'Banjo' Paterson's Old Bush Songs (1905). Paterson himself also wrote a ballad called 'The Road to Gundagai'. Capitalising on this tradition, Jack O'Hagan, who had never been to Gundagai, wrote the nostalgic and highly sentimental song 'Along the Road to Gundagai' which, in 1922, became an international success and the signature tune for the popular radio show 'Dad and Dave'. Knowing a good thing when he felt it in his wallet, O'Hagan later wrote 'Where the Dog Sits on the Tuckerbox' and 'When a Boy from Alabama Meets a Girl from Gundagai'. The hero of Henry Lawson's 'Scots of the Riverina' also has a farm 'by Gundagai' wile C.J. Dennis mentions the town in 'The Traveller'.

Gundagai is situated in what is still sheep and cattle country although wheat, lucerne and maize are also produced.

Prior to European occupation the Wiradjuri Aborigines were the local tribe. It is thought the town's name derives from the Aboriginal word 'gundabandoobingee' which has unconvincingly been interpreted as meaning 'cut with a hand-axe behind the knee'.

The first known whites in the area were explorers Hamilton Hume and William Hovell who passed through on their way to Port Phillip Bay in 1824. The first European settlers arrived around 1826. Charles Sturt passed through the present site of Gundagai in 1829 during an exploration of the Murrumbidgee River. A cairn on the northern riverbank (in the Gundagai River Caravan Park) denotes the spot at which he crossed the river.

A village developed in the 1830s on the road to Melbourne. Despite warnings by local Aborigines, a town plan was approved in 1838 on the low-lying alluvial flats on the northern side of the Murrumbidgee. Gundagai was gazetted in 1840. A number of the early streets were given literary references - Homer, Virgil, Ovid, Sheridan, Pope, Byron and Punch. By 1843 there were four hotels, a post office, several stores, a school, a blacksmith, 20 houses and a number of tents.

The first flood hit the town in 1844 and prompted debate but no action. Gundagai was finally moved to higher ground after a flood virtually destroyed the settlement in 1852, killing 83 of the 250 residents and destroying 71 buildings. Many were saved by local Aborigines, notably Yarri who paddled about throughout the night in his bark canoe saving stranded people. The locals were deeply appreciative and there are numerous contemporary memorials about town in his honour. At the time Yarri was described, in the Sydney Morning Herald, as 'belonging to Mr Andrews'. He was buried in the Catholic cemetery at Gundagai in 1880. Near the cemetery gates is his black marble headstone, recently erected by the Aboriginal Lands Council.

In the 1850s the town acted as a service centre to a prosperous pastoral and agricultural area and it benefited greatly from travellers headed to the Victorian goldfields. When Francis Cadell took his steamer up the Murrumbidgee as far as Gundagai, hopes emerged that the settlement would become an inland river port, thereby facilitating access of local producers to new markets. However, Gundagai proved to be too far upstream and nothing ultimately came of the plan.

Visitors walk across the historic road bridge

A gold rush swept the area in 1861, lasting about 15 years (another rush took place in 1894) and the first bridge over the Murrumbidgee - one of the longest in NSW - replaced the ferry service in 1867.

The famous Ben Hall bushranging gang was active in the Gundagai area in 1863-64. Hall, John Dunn and Johnny Gilbert bailed up the mail coach between Gundagai and Jugiong in 1864. They charged down a hill with guns firing. In the fracas Gilbert killed Sgt Edmund Parry who is buried at Gundagai cemetery.

At the end of 1879 Andrew George Scott, better known as bushranger 'Captain Moonlite', and three companions, were tried at Gundagai courthouse after holding up Wantabadgery station (see entry on Wagga Wagga).

During the trial Scott eloquently and wittily defended himself in court. Nonetheless all four men were sentenced to death, although two were later given hard labour for life on appeal. Scott and Thomas Rogan were hung. Scott's last request was to be buried near his friends James Nesbitt and Augustus Wernicke at Gundagai. Both were killed in the shoot-out at McGlede's Hut. Wernicke was just 15 years old and Nesbitt was Scott's best friend. The request was ignored at the time but, in 1995, his remains were exhumed from Rookwood cemetery in Sydney and his remains were re-interred near Nesbitt's grave at Gundagai cemetery.

Sgt Parry, killed by Gilbert, and Constable Webb-Bowen, killed by Scott, are buried adjacent each other at the cemetery. An obelisk marks the tomb of Webb-Bowen.

The railway arrived at Gundagai in 1886 and the town became a municipality in 1889.

The annual Dog on the Tuckerbox Festival is held over three days each November.

Unfortunately, kitaorg singgah Gundagai utk lunch jer. Tapi dapat la tengok view town dia masa lalu kot situ. Sangat cantik!!! *sorry, masa tu tgh kekenyangan jadi jari ni pon segan ya amat nak on kan camera*

Aku heran sebenarnya. Payah sangat ke nak eja nama aku nie? Dari sekolah menengah lagi... setiap kali mesti org salah eja nama. Kali ni dapat la plak jadi Nuryl Ibayu