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The Hopland mills around 1940.

Kvernhusvågen

30.03.2018 - 09:08

Pilot vessel at Fedje.

Fedje traffic office

19.05.2018 - 19:54

Bjørsvik

Bjørsvik

24.06.2018 - 15:41

The industrial settlement Bjørsvik

Lindåsosane

Lure Fjord

16.06.2018 - 18:49

Both Lure Fjord and Lindåsosane to the inside give good living conditions for rare marine organisms: jellyfish, shellfish and fish. These include animals that migrated in after last the Ice Age, when the sea level was higher. Eventually, as the land rose, some of these populations became isolated.

Lindås locks at the beginning of the 1900s.

Spjutøy

16.06.2018 - 18:51

At Spjutøy and Straumsosen there are three entrances from Lurefjorden to the fjord basin inside. Right up the end of the 1800s the ferry could not reach further than to Mølna at Spjutøy. At Skallestraumen there was a bark mill driven by the powerful tidal current in the sound. Here was also a store, a bakery and a hostelry place around the middle of the 1800s.

The cowshed at Kolåseidet, Radøy

Kolåseidet

03.01.2019 - 15:34

The little cowshed which lies on the fence at Kolåseidet, constructed in connection with the stone fence, has put its mark on the cultural landscape. On the border between the home fields and the forest, the cowshed is the very symbol of a simple resource management - the division between the cropland and the grazing grounds. And the way it was built has its roots far back in time.

Two of the rowlocks which have been found in the bogs Mangersnes, Radøy

Mangersnes

18.06.2018 - 20:07

Veafjorden

Veafjorden

31.03.2018 - 21:15

Some decades ago, Veafjord and the currents in toward the bigger rivers were the most likely places to see harbour seals in Hordaland. In the summer flocks lay on the beach and waited for the salmon to trickle in. Sometimes they also followed the fish a little way up the river.