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![From Kvitingen nature preserve.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/sam_26.jpg?itok=stnlXU1R)
Kvitingen
Few other places in Hordaland, or even the whole country, get as much rain as in the Samnanger mountains. The mountains here simply attract wetness. The weather station on Kvitingen has continuous measurements all the way back to 1900, and the measurements have documented several records for the county. The station is therefore much used as a reference for the rainfall in western Norway.
![The combination building at Nordvik.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_250-2.jpg?itok=CxcVlWaV)
![Notaholmen, Samnanger](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_250_zz.jpg?itok=XSNGpegF)
Notaholmen
The fishnet shed at Notaholmen stands as a reminder of the days when people used to row out on the fjord to set their nets. On Notaholmen the nets were dried, repaired and tanned. And it was a great advantage to store them in a place inaccessible for rats and mice.
![Slåttene](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/sam_14.jpg?itok=TPx2vADn)
![The lobster park in Espevær](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/bomlo_39.jpg?itok=QWK2IaA7)
![The green Hisøya Island](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/bomlo_45.jpg?itok=QgN_C4RW)
Hisøya
"I am going to prove to you that I am right". That is what the idealist and county doctor Christian Heitmann is supposed to have said in the early 1890s. He sat together with the parish priest, Kullmann, at Heitmann's home in Stord and discussed whether the islands in western Norway could have been forested or not. The priest thought that the area was too barren and weather-beaten for forest to have been able to grow so far out in the sea. But, Heitmann was sure he was right. He challenged the scepticism and set off to work.
![Swedish Service Tree (Bjørn Moe)](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/bo_37.jpg?itok=G2GW6zXE)
![Bergesvatnet Lake with Skogafjellet to the left.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/bo_49.jpg?itok=kEQx0X4t)
Skogafjellet
You have to travel to Scotland in order to find pine forests similar to those at Bømlo. The nearness to the sea has contributed in different ways to shaping one of the westernmost pine forests in Norway.
![Fadnesskaret](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/voss_17.jpg?itok=DJXiHJma)
![Yellow rattle](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/voss_28.jpg?itok=H9a_p4ob)
Ulvund
One of the oldest farms in Myrkdalen, Ulvund, is recognized as one of 14 areas in Hordaland having an especially valuable cultural landscape. The dirt road runs along a steep slope down toward Lake Myrkdalsvatnet. The flattest field, which today is harvested for silage, used to be an old grain field, while the slopes were old hayfields.