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![Kjerringafjellet](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/vaksdal_31.jpg?itok=iFmhzSNw)
Bergsdalen
The mountains of western Norway are lovely to wander in. In Cambro-Silurian time it was the mountain itself that wandered. The mountain, or more correctly the bedrock, first moved eastward, then back a bit westward again. All this rocking back and forth in the mountains ended about 400 million years ago.
![Flatekvål](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/vaksdal_29.jpg?itok=FmtrpVtP)
Eksingedalen- landscape
Eksingedalen alternates between wide, flat flood plains with good farmland, and narrow passages with waterfalls where the roads cling to the mountainsides. The alternations in the landscape are a result of the sculpturing work by glaciers over several ice ages, and the deposition of the glacial river deposits when the last glacier finally melted back.
![Lake Nesheimvatnet](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/vaksdal_8.jpg?itok=aQTyQgjH)
![Bergesfjellet](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/bo_31.jpg?itok=i9o6PSWe)
![Strandvollen ved Hallaråker. Siggjo in the background](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/halleraker_1.jpg?itok=lQl0voUI)
![Siggjo from the south. (Svein Nord)](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/bo_52.jpg?itok=ZLhD-gho)
Siggjo
Siggjo is a cone-shaped, volcano-like mountaintop in the part of Hordaland where one finds the best preserved volcanic rocks. The rock types originate from one or several volcanoes that spewed out glowing lava and ash. But, the shape of the mountain, as it appears today, formed later and by completely different forces.
![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.
![The eider population at Bømlo has increased sharply during the last decade.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/fuuugler.jpg?itok=gor6FPw4)
![Urangsvågen-Rubbestadneset](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/bo_51.jpg?itok=TOAhYhRU)
Urangsvågen-Rubbestadneset
In 1868 the first stone workers came to Rubbestadneset to take out the granite for the Skoltegrunns Pier, predecessor of the Skoltegrunns wharf in Bergen. Later granite was also taken out from the area, around Innværs Fjord and UransvågenN. The activity probably peaked around 1900, with over 40 men at work. 15 years later, it was finished.
![Today there are only a few farmers that grow potatoes in Fitjar.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/fi_22.jpg?itok=avXiCbey)
Fitjar- potatoes
The deep agricultural soils in Fitjar are found especially in the area between Lake Storavatnet and Breivika. The many stonewalls in the area reflect that the earth probably was full of stones and stone blocks. The stones that couldn't be dug out had also a function: they stored heat that helped to grow potatoes.