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By Fjord

Byfjorden

12.06.2018 - 17:12

Swimming and fishing is fully possible in Byfjorden (By Fjord). The water is of good quality most places, after considerable resources have been used in past years for clean-up. But, past sins still lie in the mud on the sea bottom. Fish that live in direct contact with the bottom sludge should not be eaten.

At lake Gaupåsvatnet.

Gaupås

19.05.2018 - 19:24

Klosteret

12.06.2018 - 19:10

Marmorøyen

05.12.2018 - 16:24

Old pine forest (Bjørn Moe)

Munkebotsdalen

31.03.2018 - 19:31

Nordåsvatnet (Helge Sunde)

Nordåsvatnet

12.06.2018 - 17:13

The Post-war Era came to Fana with its population growth and modern sanitary equipment. This had nearly catastrophic consequences for Nordåsvatnet as a recreational area. After the runoff water got re-directed to deeper water, and later also to the fjord outside, Lake Nordås won back both its swimming guests and its sports fishermen.

Up to the 1870s Osøyra was a military training area.

Osøyro

16.06.2018 - 16:00

The coastal settlement of Os begins to take form in the middle of the 1800s. This is when craftsmen and traders begin to settle at the river delta.

Ulevn Camp around 1915.

Ulven camp

16.06.2018 - 16:03

Raudlia

Raudlia

15.05.2018 - 13:39

Geologist William Helland-Hansen examining a quartz conglomerate in the Ulven Syncline on one of the hills by the north west end of Lake Ulvenvatnet.

Ulven

03.01.2019 - 15:16

In the region of Ulven phyllite occurs with Hordaland's youngest fossils, and a beautiful quartz conglomerate. The phyllite and conglomerate got squeezed into the bottom of an ancient oceanic crust, made of gabbro and greenstone, in the heart of the Caledonide mountain chain.

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