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![Ask mot Herdlefjorden og Holsnøy](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/askoy_18.jpg?itok=31Vc89f-)
Ask- jordbær
Strawberry-growing on Askøy flourished in the beginning of the last century. When gardener Samson Eik took in the type "Seierherren" from Rosendal in 1909 for growing strawberries on Hop, it appeared that the soil and climate in this area was perfect for the mass production of strawberries.
![Bergesfjellet](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/bo_31.jpg?itok=i9o6PSWe)
![The lobster park in Espevær](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/bomlo_39.jpg?itok=QWK2IaA7)
![Finnås and Finnåsvika](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/bo_10.jpg?itok=NqIpTrFN)
Finnås
At Flintaneset by Finnåsvika, in the centre of the municipality, we find the most beautiful and best preserved igneous rocks in western Norway. We must go to Hawaii or Island to find as fine structures as at Bømlo.
![Herdla](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/askoy_26.jpg?itok=62ypMXDe)
Herdla- Migrating birds
Bergen folk landed on it, long and well. The Germans took it over, during the Second World War. The birds had been doing it for several thousands of years: HERDLA is the main airport for migrating birds during their autumn migrations.
![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.
![The green Hisøya Island](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/bomlo_45.jpg?itok=QgN_C4RW)
Hisøya
"I am going to prove to you that I am right". That is what the idealist and county doctor Christian Heitmann is supposed to have said in the early 1890s. He sat together with the parish priest, Kullmann, at Heitmann's home in Stord and discussed whether the islands in western Norway could have been forested or not. The priest thought that the area was too barren and weather-beaten for forest to have been able to grow so far out in the sea. But, Heitmann was sure he was right. He challenged the scepticism and set off to work.
![Strandflat and scree by land](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/fi_14.jpg?itok=4i8IcPpe)
![Landrovågen, the 1980's.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_283-bu.jpg?itok=xIOX5Ooi)
Landro
Landro has been the largest estate on Sotra, including 15 farms with reasonable conditions for agriculture. Their boathouses have had an excellent harbour in Landrovågen. Landro thus has been a good basis for the combination of agriculture and fishing.
![Løno](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/fjell_10.jpg?itok=PM-cG2ym)
Løno
Small boat folk in Hordaland know where Løno is. As do many seabirds. With the big ocean at its back and a wide, weather beaten strait ahead of it, Løno is one of Hordaland’s most isolated and exposed recreational areas. The islands west of Sotra are some of the county’s most stable nesting localities for seabirds.