#gundagai

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[canberramaidan]

Fording the Murrumbidgee River at Gundagai, NSW.

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Concrete bus stops of Canberra - Australia.

Unique to this particular city. Who knew it was such a thing?

Only discovered as we spent 5 nights staying in the Turner area of Dickson, about 20 minutes walk from the Duxton Arms where we met up with relatives one evening.

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Below: views across the city of Melbourne and the Yarra River at night.

We took a 7 hour road trip from Canberra to Melbourne, including some rather interesting stopping places on the way.

More photos of the quirky things we discovered, the route map and info here in my travel blog post.

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Posing like a cat

Yellow Rosella, Gundagai

Just to confuse matters, this rosella is a member of the Crimson Rosella family.

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The Great ACT-NSW-NZ Trip, 2023-2024 - Gundagai

AYArktos' photo from Wiki, since I was too busy looking for insects around the place to photograph the statue.

Gundagai is a small town on the Hume Highway between Sydney and Melbourne, and site of the famous Dog on the Tuckerbox, from a doggeral poem written at least as early as 1857. The bullock team driver in the poem was not having a good day, and the poem was considered quite rude even without the popular variations with an added 'h'

And the dog sat on the tuckerbox five miles from Gundagai.

@purrdence and I hadn't planned on stopping there - we'd originally intended to catch the train from Wagga Wagga to Sydney. But we didn't want to infect anybody with COVID.

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On the road to Gundagai

It was time to go home. Google maps picked us a route via the city motorways to the Hume Highway but it being a workday morning, we politely declined. Or maybe not very politely. 😊Instead, we went to the nearby town of Gisborne for breakfast. There aren’t too many places open anywhere at that time of day so we went to a cafe we’d gone into a day or two before, a cup of tea. The lass at the…

[faithfromanewperspective]

me aged 6: makes up a song about an avenue nearby bc its name sounded cool or smth

me now: talking to my cities on tumblr as if they are real and can hear me

some things never change

[magstorrn]

starting to realise how much my life revolves around a) chess the musical and b) captain moonlite

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Rereading my wip it's amazing how when I'm in a good mood my characters are too. They've all been bickering for days but looking at what I had before they are perfectly pleasant.

[theopshoppoet]

The Road to Gundagai

The mountain road goes up and down From Gundagai to Tumut Town. And, branching off, there runs a track Across the foothills grim and black, Across the plains and ranges grey To Sydney city far away. It came by chance one day that I From Tumut rode to Gundagai, And reached about the evening tide The crossing where the roads divide; And, waiting at the crossing place, I saw a maiden fair of face, With eyes of the deepest violet blue, And cheeks to match the rose in hue - The fairest maids Australia knows Are bred among the mountain snows. Then, fearing I might go astray, I asked if she could show the way. Her voice might well a man bewitch - Its tones so supple, deep, and rich. "The tracks are clear," she made reply, "And this goes down to Sydney town, And that one goes to Gundagai." Then slowly, looking coyly back, She went along the Sydney track And I for one was well content To go the road the lady went; But round the turn a swain she met - The kiss she gave him haunts me yet! I turned and travelled with a sigh The lonely road to Gundagai.

A. B. "Banjo" Paterson

From The Man From Snowy River and Other Verses (Reprinted 1962)

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Garden Motor Inn Gundagai Set on a 2.5-acre property surrounded by countryside, Garden Motor Inn Gundagai features a large seasonal outdoor swimming pool. Gundagai town centre is just 3 minutes’ drive away. All air-conditioned rooms feature garden views and include a TV, a refrigerator and tea/coffee making and microwave facilities. The property has a self-service laundry and outdoor BBQ facilities. Gundagai Golf Course and the iconic Dog on the Tucker Box monument are each 4 minutes' drive from Motor Inn. Wagga Wagga is 55 minutes’ drive and Murrumbidgee River is 58 minutes’ drive away.

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can u recommend a sea shantie? i need more sea shanties for the soul

Leave Her Johnny. But specifically the one from Assassin's Creed 4, because the melancholy voices of the choir is just incredible.

Additionally, Hoist Up The Thing by the Longest Johns. This song came out a week before the Akuna docked in Darwin the final time and I disembarked, so I didn't get to hear it while I aboard ship, but the "not knowing how to do anything" joke was exactly me when I was still aboard her, and listening to the song gives me a strong nostalgia for my time at sea when I didn't know how to do anything and had to be taught by the older fellas around me.

Fire and Flame is about the Halifax Disaster, again by the Longest Johns.

Have you noticed a trend of me enjoying this band?

We sang a long of songs on the Akuna, but maybe a quarter I don't know the name of because they were assorted blackfella songs that weren't in English (maybe half the crew was black, including the captain) and I didn't know their lyrics and had to sing by sound.

The Akuna is also where I first heard And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda, which the crew sang for me after they'd learnt I was a drover before I was a linesman. Ernie, her captain, was a Vietnam vet and was a bit emotional when the crew sang it. I learnt this song VERY quickly and would lead the singing of it after.

Speaking of singing, I was asked to sing a lot, since my singing voice is soprano, so I sound like a girl when I sing. And these men have been at sea most of their lives, and we didn't get radio out there, so they liked listening to me sing.

Other songs we sang were Santiana, Off to Sea, Wellerman, Old Maui, Shores of Botany Bay, Bound For South Australia, I Was Only 19, The Wild Colonial Boy, Along the Road to Gundagai, Took the Children Away (some of the blokes aboard were part of the Stolen Generations), Home Among the Gumtrees, Fields of Athenry (which I was encouraged to sing), and Moreton Bay. We went heavy on the bush ballads.

When I sang, it was usually Fields of Athenry, Danny Boy, a LOT of song by Celtic Woman but most were songs from Endless Ocean (the Wii game) because I knew those best, Green Fields of France, etc. I sang a lot of war songs by request, a lot of blackfella songs if I knew the lyrics, a lot of Irish ballads, and a couple of English ones (Scarborough Faire was popular).

My only regret was that I disembarked when I did and didn't spend more time aboard.

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The Coffee Pedeler in Gundagai and the Garden Motel on top of the hill.

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Demonic (where the monsters hide)

Scorched plywood, abandoned hotel, Gundagai

On my travels

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#2178 - Tragopogon porrifolius - Purple Salsify

AKA common salsify, goatsbeard, oyster plant, vegetable oyster, Jerusalem star, Jack go to bed and a whole slew of Tragopogon species since rolled back into one, presumably.

Native to SE Europe and North Africa, but since introduced to the rest of Europe, North America, Australia and elsewhere. Grown as an ornamental, and for the edible taproots and leaves which are best after a frost and before flowering.

Two species found in the US, Tragopogon miscellus and Tragopogon mirus, are actually polyploid hybrids derived from introduced species.

Gundagai, NSW