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![Cross-leaved heath (Akvarell: Miranda Bødtker)](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/auste_3.jpg?itok=LlH8ouMq)
![Stordalen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/304/stordalen_endret_til_rgb.jpg?itok=nn6EunGo)
Stordalen
When the Etne water system was protected in 1994, preservation of the cultural landscape in Stordalen Valley was a a main objective. This is a valley with an exceptional abundance of Different types of plants and animals. In the grey alder forest in Stordalen there are more bird species than in most other places, in fact, denser than one tends to find in a tropical rainforest.
![Strandflat and scree by land](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/fi_14.jpg?itok=4i8IcPpe)
![Liarbø, Fitjar](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_216-3_liarbo216a.jpg?itok=4A2LYm0f)
![Smedholmen, Fitjar](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_219-_bu.jpg?itok=RVN_WnRB)
![The farm steading of Årskog.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_217-2.jpg?itok=jDL5OgDI)
Årskog
Årskog farm is situated in a typical coastal landscape in a gentle terrain that slopes down from the outlying heaths down towards the fjord. The farm steading exists as it was in the 1800s. In 1980 the two brothers, Lars and Olai Årskog donated the farm with all its contents of tools and interior decoration, for museum purposes.
![Skerries with a long history](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/auste_15.jpg?itok=MU10Q3lW)
Møkstrafjordøyane
The sea keeps the bedrock in the outer skerries smooth and clean. When the bedrock is also varied and interesting, the setting is perfect for a discovery tour of these bare-faced outcrops.
![Foglefonna and Sandvikedalen with Hardangerjøkulen in the distance.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/etne_40.jpg?itok=QkNKWy9j)
Mosnes
The permanently-protected Mosneselva River, with its meltwater from Folgefonna, runs out into Åkra Fjord by the roadless and uninhabited Mosnes. Those who once lived here were forced to surrender to the ravages of Nature. In the autumn of 1962 there was a flood so great that the people were driven from their farms.
![Sæbøtunet in 1934](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_186-1.jpg?itok=rg3jiQ5i)
Sæbøtunet
When you come into the well-tended farm steading at Sæbø just above Etne centre, you get the impression of a Sunnhordland farm from well before the time of the tractor; from the time of the horse and the scythe. The hamlet at Sæbø, one of the farms neighbouring to Gjerde, was taken over by Sunnhordland Folk Museum in 1938.
![A flock of three youngsters is a lot for a shag, and is testimony to a good nutrient supply in the sea right by the nesting site.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/auste_6.jpg?itok=-bfi3UgA)
Møkster- seabirds
Fish and guests smell after three days, it is said. The cormorants do not need this long. If you follow your nose, the cormorant is not difficult to find.