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![Boat builder Magnus Trå tests the stability of the newly built four-ored boa](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_377-xx.jpg?itok=owKbR6jg)
![Hardanger fartøyvernsenter](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/torvik_beskaret.jpg?itok=N0CmeyIO)
![Hallingskeid](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_360-4_0.jpg?itok=jjyCUd7C)
![The cross church from 1710](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_359-3_0.jpg?itok=a4Vem1vB)
![The Ostra chests are easily recognisable with their characteristic style.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_327-1.jpg?itok=x-fr2TBj)
Mjøsvågen
Around Mjøsvågen here is still a compact marine use area. Some of the buildings are common boathouses, but most of them also house small enterprises and workshops. This is where the farmers from Øvsthus, Mjøs, Hole and other farms have supplemented their meagre incomes as smiths, brass moulders, clog makers, chest builders and decorative painters.
![«Gygraræve»](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvam_52.jpg?itok=IBSDcN8N)
![Vesoldo](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/nv_465.jpg?itok=0QTt1JUj)
Vesoldo
Folds are to be found everywhere in the remains of the Caledonian mountain chain. Some were formed during the collision with Greenland, others stem from the time when the mountain chain collapsed. Few can compare with the giant fold that remains in the mountain area around Tørvikenuten, Vesoldo and Hellefjellet.
![In the background Nordrenut and Vesle Finsenuten, from the south-east.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/ulvik_3.jpg?itok=nFVp8uAU)
Finse
Many mountain plants are well prepared to face cold and wind. Some would surely rather face an easier life in the lowlands, but they cannot compete with the higher-growing plants living there. Most mountain plants manage to compete for light and space only if they cling to the bedrock and gravel in the harsh high alpine climate.
![Ulvikapollen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/ulvik_13.jpg?itok=ufHTN52m)
Ulvikapollen
When the lush beach area innermost in Ulvikapollen was protected, the bird life was instrumental to the decision. The plant diversity is just as impressive. In Hordaland sea meadows such as this are rare small in size - they are more common in coastal environments.
![Herlandsnesjane](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/ost_19.jpg?itok=ziqPLTch)
Herlandsnesjane
Herlandsnesjane, a four-kilometre long peninsula in Lake Storavatnet in the middle of Osterøy, is well known among botanists. Here lies an unusually large and diverse bog.