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![Moraine ridges, Fruo.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/eid_22a.jpg?itok=V9Vy57R6)
Fruo
At Fruo, nature has built its own little "Chinese wall ". Some kilometers south of the Vøringsfossen waterfall, there are a number of moraine ridges, the longest and most notable of their kind in Hordaland.
![The Eidfjord terrace as seen from Lægreid, presumably in the early 1900s.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/eid_36.jpg?itok=_A8sZyMW)
Hæreid- geology
The Eidfjord terrace is a gigantic ridge that reaches up more than one hundred metres from the city centre in Eidfjord. It serves as a powerful natural monument left behind by the ice when it retreated.
![The spotted trout](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/eid_21.jpg?itok=LeOeyWy1)
Krækkjavassdraget
Few other animal species on Hardangervidda have been as much the focus of scientific research as the spotted trout. The spotted trout is considered to be a genetic variant of brown trout. It lives in parts of the Krækkjav water system. Otherwise, on a world scale, this species is only found in a small area in Kaukasus, and possibly also in a lake in Rondane.
![Sketch showing the process of formation of an esker.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/skisse.jpg?itok=dTA78127)
![Rembesdalsskåka and the lower part of Demmevatnet, from Tresnuten. Demmevass cabin is visible to the left in the picture.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/nv_491.jpg?itok=eg8SNPfS)
Simadalen
On the 10th of August, 1937, over half of the agricultural land in Simadalen was submerged by the river. The damage to roads and houses was also catastrophic. This was the most destructive flood ever recorded in Hordaland.
![Glacial river plain at Lake Klevavatnet.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/ulvik_32.jpg?itok=duW0R_ur)
Rallarvegen
They rest there, all as one, the silent witnesses of Western Norway's saga of creation: Precambrian basement, phyllite and thrust sheet. In the end came the glaciers and sculptured the vast landscape. Along the ground or on the horizon, from bicycle or on foot - the landscape tells its story - and it tells it clearer on Rallarvegen than many other places.
![Solskinstjørni](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/ulvik_43.jpg?itok=hNZOK4_6)
Solskinstjørni
Solskinstjørni in Osa, just above Haugen farm in Norddalen, is visible only now and again, seemingly always for a period of good weather. Then it disappears abruptly, but its disappearance is not connected to weather conditions.
![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)
![Sandy beach to the west of Kallsøyna, outermost Valen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/nvh_353_herdla_150.jpg?itok=XcEOtEry)
Herdla – glacial deposits
The shift in the landscape is striking between the barren craggy moors north on Askøy and the green fields of Herdla, which has the county's biggest farm. The majority of Herdla, such as the island appears today, is a gift from the glacier: The glacier that advanced here over 12,000 years ago stopped at the northern tip of Askøy and took its time building up the moraine on Herdla. Since then, Herdla has been under continual transformation. The re-organisation of the loose sediment deposits continues today.
![Herdla church in 1863.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_272-2.jpg?itok=DSvl1Ooz)
Herdla Church
A letter from the Pope Eugenius 3 in 1146 mentions St. Nikolaus church at Herdla. This church belonged under Munkeliv monastery, which was founded in Bergen by Øystein around 1110. The Herdla Church may stem from this time.