Start the hunt: Cooper and Savannah Pettie prepare for the start of Easter while at the Tongala Easter Hay Bale Trail launch last week.
Hay bales have become much more than a means of satisfying the appetites of hungry farm stock in the Tongala community — they have become representative of the ingenuity and enthusiasm of a small town to spread the word of its aim to maintain relevance in a fast-growing world.
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At the Easter Hay Bale Trail launch on the Thursday evening before the Easter holiday period began, a large gathering of community members again celebrated the work of the town’s development group.
An Easter egg hunt was run in conjunction with a cake stall organised by the town’s primary school Parents and Friends Club, while celebrating the work of volunteer artists who had again created amazingly colourful hay bales with messages to match.
The hop-themed hay bales were accompanied by an Anzac Day hay bale, fittingly located a little closer to the RSL headquarters to the east of the Potts Village Green location of the celebration.
Organisers of the Easter Hay Bale Trail launch were again ecstatic with the response to the event.
In recent years they have had tremendous success with the Eats and Beats food and music festival, along with the Christmas Hay Bale Trail which extends from one side of the town to the other and has almost 20 locations.
Hop on top: Charlotte and Blake Gillie had the best seat in the house when they sat proudy atop one of the hop-themed hay bales before the Easter egg hunt at the Tongala development group event on the Potts Village Green.
Concentrated effort: Tait Ohlsen and Chett Cox working on their Easter egg collection devices before dozens of children excitedly started the egg hunt last week.
