Bergen we rented a car and drove to Stavanger (also on the coast) taking a ferry and numerous bridges to get there. We rented a cottage and toured around looking for good birds. It is a vvery pretty area with lots of farms and a lot flatter than other parts of Norway that we have visited. Many of the farms were surrounded by stone walls like this one - very different than the ones I grew up with in NY.
This was a path down to the ocean behind our cottage. The grass was very thick and lush. The owner of our cottage told us that Eric the Red was supposed to have lived there before going off to Greenland (and Iceland, too, I think).This is our cottage. It is a traditional building used for storage and called a stolpa bue (not sure now of the spelling). This one was renovated to sleep many people with something like 4 double beds upstairs in a large open space. Very cozy it was.
On our last day in the area we went to the Prekistolen - a rock that looks like it couldn't possibly be there. It was about a 2 1/2 hour climb up (and a 2 1/2 hour climb down) and was one of the best hikes I have ever been on. In this picture we are looking at people standing on th Prekistolen and, as you can tell from my face, I am not too sure about this....More coming...
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