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![A rainy day at the Fish market, in the 1930s. (Alf Adriansen)](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/berg_23.jpg?itok=-R4cMftI)
Bergen- Rain City
"With its strange situation (surrounded by high mountains), this city has the advantage of a beautiful port and considerable shipping, but also the disadvantage that once on land one cannot get to the city without great inconvenience. This is because the weather in the vicinity of these high mountains is extremely unpleasant and rainy. There has even evolved an expression that is always rains in Bergen, and we have not experienced anything to counteract this saying." (a quote by the Dutch professor Fabricius after a visit to Bergen in ca. 1780).
![Shelduck.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/askoyyeah.jpg?itok=TnBLHIqS)
Herdleflaket
Spring, summer and autumn, there is bird life on Valen, and the tidal zone is especially attractive. Out on Herdlaflaket, you see ducks and other diving birds all year round, but most in winter.
![From Kvitingen nature preserve.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/sam_26.jpg?itok=stnlXU1R)
Kvitingen
Few other places in Hordaland, or even the whole country, get as much rain as in the Samnanger mountains. The mountains here simply attract wetness. The weather station on Kvitingen has continuous measurements all the way back to 1900, and the measurements have documented several records for the county. The station is therefore much used as a reference for the rainfall in western Norway.
![Bjørsvik](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/lindas_11_1.jpg?itok=vyYie0Yy)
Bjørsvik
The industrial settlement Bjørsvik
![The old limestone quarry is today rebuilt and become Moster Amfi.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_206-3a.jpg?itok=US4hTVFq)
![From Måge](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_394-1.jpg?itok=hO2-z3lh)
Måge
Steatite is a type of stone that is abundant in Hardanger. There are large steatite deposits in the mountain below Folgefonna. These deposits are visible both in Krossdalen in Jondal, at Kveitno in Odda and at Måge in Ullensvang. There are many traces of steatite quarrying in Hardanger, and one of the largest fields is in the hillside above Måge.