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![Kjelstraumen today](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/kvh_305_kjelstraumen_150.jpg?itok=5jwimkOE)
Kjelstraumen
If you take the sea route north you have several options. The various routes have been dealt with in history, and through the Middle Ages the traffic increased as well as the trading with Nordland in fish and herring, feather and down. One of the central routes passes through Kjelstraumen, in the sound between Ulvøy and Bakkøy. This has been a place for a guesthouse since 1610, with Royal Letter of Privilege, part of the large network of trading post and guesthouse locations along the coast.
![The mill that belonged to Johan Steinegger in Kvalvågen in Lindås, an attempt to exploit the difference in tides](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/austr_5.jpg?itok=-8B2oviO)
![Hellisøy lighthouse, Fedje](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_309-2a.jpg?itok=j0svJC8o)
Hellisøy
Hellisøy lighthouse was lit for the first time in 1855. The characteristic red cast-iron tower with two white belts is 33m high and a light height of 46m above high tide.
![Holmengrå](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/fedje_18.jpg?itok=sUXXEBb1)
Holmengrå
Holmengrå is the only place in Hordaland where we find traces of the abrasion that is supposed to have transformed Western Norway from a Himalaya-like high mountain landscape during the earth's Paleozoic Era, to a flat lowlands terrain during the Mezosoic Era. Just 400 million years ago, large and small stones plummeted down from the high mountains. Some of these stones became incorporated into the conglomerate bedrock on Holmengrå.
![Kræmmerholmen photographed in early 1900.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_308-1obs.jpg?itok=M3y6dpBn)
Kræmmerholmen
Kræmmerholmen is one of the old privileged trading posts. From the 1600s all trading in West Norway took place in Bergen, and the farmers were obliged to travel into town in order to sell their produce and buy what they needed. In Bergen City Privilege of 1702 the merchants in the city were allowed to establish “Trading posts in the countryside”. The owner had to have residency in Bergen and the trading post was to be run by an assistant. In this way the city retained financial control of those living in the districts, and not least with buying and selling of fish.
![Firing position at Hesthaugen.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_308-1.jpg?itok=rPoWCltP)
Vinappen
Vinappen lies on a low hill to the very west on the island. Here you have an amazing panorama of the sea. Originally the area was grazing land for cattle, but this changed when the Germans occupied the island. Just before WWII there was a small bearing station, used by the Norwegian Coast Artillery in connection with exercises at sea.
![The D/S Oster and D/S Børøysund](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/bat.jpg?itok=3bZZkSJ5)
![The hostelry place at Bruknappen, Lindås](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_314-1.jpg?itok=LBiJRHGs)
Bruknappen
The hostelry place in Bruknappen is situated north in Radsundet, just south of Festo, by a sheltered idyllic bay, close to the main lane. Sloops both from Sognefjorden and Nordland had their fixed stops at “the blacksmith in Bruknappen”; on their way to Bergen, fully loaded with wood and hazel hoops, barrels and chests, or on their way home with town merchandise.
![“The Trondheim post road” from Gaulen, Lindås.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/kvh_312_postveg_gaulen_lindas_150.jpg?itok=PMPplx4t)
![The sites show the longhouse, a smaller “old folk’s house” and a hayshed.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/3151.jpg?itok=c_m0Rz1s)
Lurekalven
Lurekalven is an unpopulated island of heather moor which is a part of the wilderness belonging to the five farms on Ytre Lygra. Between the two islands there is only a small sound. As late as the 1920s, milking cows were rowed over the sound from Lygra in summer – a form of farming that was adapted to the coastal landscape.