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![Gamalt postopneri, Øpstad i Fusa](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_245-x.jpg?itok=p6Gt3T-l)
Øpstad
The post house at Øpstad stands out in the landscape. An ochre yellow house with a loft and a white-painted house in Swiss style with ochre edgings, bears witness to a well preserved house from the 1800s, nearest neighbour to the beautiful old vicarage. In the Øpstad hamlet there was a post office for more than a hundred years, until the 1970s. Today it is possible to walk the old post road across the mountain to Strandvik, as part of “Den Stavangerske Postvei” (The post road to Stavanger).
![Geologist William Helland-Hansen examining a quartz conglomerate in the Ulven Syncline on one of the hills by the north west end of Lake Ulvenvatnet.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/os_31.jpg?itok=kdZe21Du)
Ulven
In the region of Ulven phyllite occurs with Hordaland's youngest fossils, and a beautiful quartz conglomerate. The phyllite and conglomerate got squeezed into the bottom of an ancient oceanic crust, made of gabbro and greenstone, in the heart of the Caledonide mountain chain.
![This little mountain in the picture sticks up because the layers are tilted on their sides.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/oygard_21.jpg?itok=ugcTumKb)
![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?
![The rock carving ship on Samnøya, Fusa](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/awdawdawd.jpg?itok=c-c6gsY7)
![Lysekloster](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/os_6.jpg?itok=5Pxxxlbo)
Lysekloster- Mushroom flora
The area around Lysekloster is one of the most popular places in Hordaland for picking mushrooms. The large variety of mushrooms probably stems from the varied, old, cultural landscape which has a lot of open grazing areas and several types of fir- and deciduous forests.
![The man from Holmefjord](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_246-7.jpg?itok=XaoETJFZ)
Holmefjord
Even though we know of several hundred burial places from the Stone Age in Hordaland, we do not often hit on the Stone Age Man himself. But there are a few.
![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)
![The power station at Gåssand, Os](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_237-1-1.jpg?itok=kDd6e2yS)
Gåssand
The 28th November 1914 was a day to remember for the Os inhabitants. This was the day they could turn the switch on the wall and have electric light in their houses. It was like opening the door on the future when the power station at Gåssand was put into operation.
![The rock paintings in Grødalshaug, Os](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_234-x.jpg?itok=3teSxvuP)
Grødalshaug
At the bottom of Vargavågen on Halhjem lies Grødalshaug, a 30 metres high rocky outcrop between the bay and a moist valley cleft. On the south side of the rock is a steep rock cliff facing the valley, the bog and the stream. On this rock face we find rock carvings from the Bronze Age.