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![Osa and the Osa fjord](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_360xxx.jpg?itok=YQCQAW0y)
Osa
At the bottom of the Osa fjord there is a cultural landscape marked by great contrasts; the wide terraces and the river delta at the fjord contrast with the steep hillsides in the background, where Norddalen leads up to the mountain. There are two farms here. Osa and Sævartveit – the farm at the river mouth and the hollow by the sea.
![Solskinstjørni](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/ulvik_43.jpg?itok=hNZOK4_6)
Solskinstjørni
Solskinstjørni in Osa, just above Haugen farm in Norddalen, is visible only now and again, seemingly always for a period of good weather. Then it disappears abruptly, but its disappearance is not connected to weather conditions.
![Nils Hertzberg watercolour of “Spånheimsklosteret”](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_362-2.jpg?itok=tMjpbmV9)
![Midtvatnet](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/fjell_27.jpg?itok=816BuZcP)
Fjell river network
There are many river networks out by the coast and they tend to be small and unassuming. The farmer has relied upon the watercourses to run his mill and saw, and it may be that the trout have given him a good source of food in years when the ocean fish failed. In our time, these river networks are being rediscovered for their value in recreation and outdoor life, and several places, tourist trails have been built in order to fully enjoy them.
![Landrovågen, the 1980's.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_283-bu.jpg?itok=xIOX5Ooi)
Landro
Landro has been the largest estate on Sotra, including 15 farms with reasonable conditions for agriculture. Their boathouses have had an excellent harbour in Landrovågen. Landro thus has been a good basis for the combination of agriculture and fishing.
![The long house at Golta, Sund](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_276-1.jpg?itok=qlke6iyO)
Golta- Long house
In the years between the wars a major registration of houses and house costumes, house construction methods, fireplaces and forms of housing clusters was started in West Norway – an ambitious mapping of everything that came under the name “Registration of Culture and Geography in West Norway”. One of the places of which material was gathered in 1938 was an old multi-room house at Golta; new and interesting material for the researchers from the Historical Museum, but well known within the local building tradition through several generations.
![Goltasund bridge and Goltasundet](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/kvh_276_goltasundet_150.jpg?itok=1CBSE3io)
Goltasundet
For generations the land-seine was the most important tool for catching herring and mackerel, and therefore a suitable casting bay was worth its weight in gold. Goltasundet (the Golta sound) on Golta was such a place. Here the herring often drifted in and fantastic casts might be made here.
![The Salting shed at Trælevika.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_275-4.jpg?itok=20MdCbWg)
![The sites show the longhouse, a smaller “old folk’s house” and a hayshed.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/3151.jpg?itok=c_m0Rz1s)
Lurekalven
Lurekalven is an unpopulated island of heather moor which is a part of the wilderness belonging to the five farms on Ytre Lygra. Between the two islands there is only a small sound. As late as the 1920s, milking cows were rowed over the sound from Lygra in summer – a form of farming that was adapted to the coastal landscape.
![Burning heath](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh-315-1.jpg?itok=ppNzj4Tv)
Lygra
The heath landscape on outer Lygra, Utluro and Lurekalven will in future become part of a landscape protection area, to be maintained through traditional activities with year-round outdoor sheep, grazing and burning. The West Norwegian heath country belongs to a large North Atlantic coastal landscape stretching from the Bay of Biscay to the Lofoten islands.