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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.
![Boathouses in Breiviksunde](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_287-2.jpg?itok=IO29IAY2)
![Hjelmevågen, Øygarden](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_289-1.jpg?itok=XBi64SD6)
Hjelmo
On the farm Hjelmo, furthest north in Øygarden, in the innermost part of a long bay, there is a fine boatshed collection with a church beside it. From times immemorial this has probably been the fish-shed location for these farm units and this was also the landing place for the churchgoers.
![Toftestallen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/bo_13.jpg?itok=zrSHKUwq)
Toftestallen
The large coastal waves that crash down on the islands west in the sea gather their energy from storms and winds all the way out in the North Atlantic Ocean. The most common place of origin is nonetheless the North Sea. When these waves break over the skerries and islets along the shore, or on the rocky outermost islands, their energy is released. This takes the form of turbulence in the water and sea spray up on land. Can the enormous energy contained in the waves be exploited?
![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)
![Herdlevær](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/304/herdlevaer.jpg?itok=c4fst89V)
Herdlevær
Herdlevær lies on one of the small islands west of Hjeltefjorden, facing the North Sea and the big ocean. Today you may arrive there by car. The numerous islands are linked together by elegant bridge spans made of concrete. Fifty years ago it was half a day’s journey to get to Herdlevær from the mainland by your own rowing boat or ferry.