Across the weekend, a number of activities were hosted at Eudunda to commemorate the opening of the Lavender Federation Trail's leg from the Barossa to Eudunda.
Almost 10 years ago in October 2014, the Eudunda community celebrated the opening of the new 55km long section of walking trail.
With the introduction of this section, it was then possible to walk on a dedicated 55km long trail via Dutton to Truro that, in turn, travelled through Keyneton, Moculta, Springton and other Barossa townships before reaching its starting point on the Murray River at Murray Bridge.
Over 200 people attended the 2014 celebrations that won an "Event of the Year" award from the Regional Council of Goyder.
Over the weekend at the Eudunda Town Gardens, the 10th anniversary of the trail section was celebrated.One of the event organisers behind the event, Peter Herriman from the South Australian Recreation Trails Inc (SARTI), told The Leader that the weekend's events attracted a healthy number of visitors.
"Over the whole weekend we had about 120 people come, and I'd always sort of targeted the weekend for about 100 to 150, so I can't complain…especially when on Sunday it was blowing a gale," Peter said.
Saturday's festivities also included guest speakers Member for Frome, Penny Pratt MP, Chris Bushell, former SARTI chairperson, John Neal, representing the original Regional Council of Goyder, and Skye Harwood, Eudunda Community, Business & Tourism (ECBAT) committee chairperson.
The event coincided with the Eudunda Market, which included unique and locally produced crafts, bric-a-brac, plants as well as food and drinks. Several stalls were run as fundraisers by local organisations.
In the ensuing 10 years, the Lavender Federation Trail, was further extended and now finishes at Clare.
The increasing popularity of cycling has also resulted in a dedicated cycling trail, the "Lavender Cycling Trail" constructed between Murray Bridge and Clare and sharing a common route where possible.
Guided walks of various lengths were operating during the weekend, Saturday morning and afternoon, as well as Sunday.
Such tours include a return of local historian Samuel Doering's 'Guten Tag' Stories of Germans in Eudunda tour, as well as a Colin Thiele bus tour around the town and surrounding areas.
Guided by Marcus Reseigh, a long-standing volunteer at the Eudunda Family Heritage Gallery, this tour was set to travel up to Julia, where the Thiele family farm was located, as well as Point Pass where Colin played football at the local oval, and back to Eudunda.
Passengers were also set to be treated to some of Colin Thiele's poetry along the way.
Peter also shared that on Sunday, a bus tour took some of the SARTI the area to see the Truro leg of the trail, as well as to Dutton and the Levi Creek conservation reserve.
Peter added that the weekend's events were funded by an events grant from the Regional Council of Goyder.