The Dog On The Tucker Box

Taken from Wikipedia:
The Dog on the Tuckerbox is an Australian historical monument and tourist attraction, located at Snake Gully (on the Hume Highway), five miles (8 km) from Gundagai, New South Wales. It was sculpted by local stonemason Frank Rusconi and was unveiled by the then Prime Minister of Australia Joseph Lyons on 28 November 1932 as a tribute to pioneers. The statue was inspired by a bullock driver's poem, Bullocky Bill, which celebrates the life of a mythical driver's dog that loyally guarded the man's tuckerbox (lunch box) until death.

Link to the Bullocky Bill poem: http://members.pcug.org.au/~stmcdona/tuckrbox.html

We didn’t stop at this curiosity as we were in a hurry to get to Sydney and we were horrified by all the surrounding commercialization (KFC, Subway, McCafe, BP service station and Tuckerbox Restaurant).

Gundagai is a special place for me as not far down the Tumbarumba road is a place called Mount Adrah where my mother was born.