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![Blomvågen 1851.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/oygard_25.jpg?itok=at3JP7DM)
Blomvågen
"One of the big scientific sensations", was the title in the Bergens Times newspaper on the 22nd of November, 1941. It was the geologist Isal Undås who had been interviewed by the newspaper. He thought that he had discovered a 120 000 year old whale bone, remains of life from before the last Ice Age.
![The old communal hamlet before 1910.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_333-4.jpg?itok=ruUK20e1)
Dale farm
The Dale farm lies well situated on the gravel by the river, below the mountain Beitelen. But a few stone throws further north, on the wide expanse behind the houses, there has been an older farmstead. Here there have been found a number of cooking hollows, pole holes, an old road and traces of something believed to have been a palisade. Finds from this oldest farmstead may be dated to the time of the migrations, 400-600 years A.D.
![Gjuvsland (Svein Nord)](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/navn.jpg?itok=npdQFont)
![The delta at the outflow of Storelvi in Granvinsvatnet.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/gra_1.jpg?itok=er1kEGup)
Granvinsvassdraget
After the ice age, Granvin Fjord reached all the way up under Skjervsfjossen waterfall. Just a thousand years later, as a result of the rising of the land after the ice melted, this whole inner part of the fjord freed itself of the sea and became Granvinsvatnet lake. In spite of this rise in elevation, this waterway is still navigable for fish: Sea trout have wandered into Granvinsvatnet in more recent times and evolved to become freshwater trout. And salmon and sea trout made the journey 13 kilometres up the Storelvi river.
![Elias Fiigenschoug’s painting of Halsnøy monastery , 1656](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_192-1.jpg?itok=9VO9I-NR)
Halsnøy Monastery
Halsnøy Monastery is situated in the midst of the lush fjord country in Sunnhordland, on one of the old spits, or “necks”, that has given name to the island. Gently sloping fields lead down to the sea on both sides, in the south towards the Kloster Fjord, to the north towards the sheltered Klostervågen.
![Hana](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/berg_56.jpg?itok=xl5rWX0M)
![The circular buckle from Hatteberg, Kvinnherad](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_198-2_0.jpg?itok=Nx0pe53v)
![Bryocaulon lichen, from Nesheimshorgi.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/gra_20_a.jpg?itok=w8bFENLo)
![This is what the northernmost part of the fishing village might have looked like in Viking times](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_288-4.jpg?itok=mGnXIxYE)
![Maters Fjord with Holmedalsberget in the background.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvi_37.jpg?itok=mDDqfdul)
Holmedalsberget
If you want to be on your own for a long day in a magnificent deciduous forest in demanding terrain, then HOLMESDALSBERGET is the right place. This is a big forested area by Matres Fjord in the southwestly part of Kinnherad. Here, we find one of the largest deciduous forests in Hordaland. The forest stretches over several kilometres.