Our WesternGeco new hiking club toured around Televåg on a piece of the North Sea trail today. There was NO WIND! We got some raindrops but it was in the 40's Farenheit and as still as could be. We met at the museum, but then drove to this school to start the hike. What a great turnout, with 7 people/families and a dog.
We followed the blue Ns across the heathland on the island of Sotra, which is the farthest west in the North Sea. It is the closest part of Norway to the UK's Shetland Islands. This fact becomes important later on.
Here's where we found our first marker about the history of the area. This area was the center of the Resistance when Norway was occupied by the Germans. Secret shipments of weapons and people were hidden here to go back and forth to the Shetlands.
When we got out to the edge of the land, we could see for miles.
These guys were enthusiastic hikers! They climbed rocks and trees while waiting for us to catch up. They provided great sound effects, too. Everything from helicopters to hollers. They had dry boots, unlike some of the adults, who had wet tennis shoes.
You remember Ed's quest to sit on all the benches in Europe? Well, he took a picture of most of the rest of us sitting on this one, and we didn't get one of him sitting on it. Bummer!
Here's an earthen cellar. The sign below explains that this is basically all that was left of Televåg after the Germans taught Norway a lesson by destroying the whole area. They imprisoned all the women and children and sent all the men to Germany, probably to concentration camps. All the houses you see are post WWII vintage.
Beautiful cove, isn't it?
There's an old graveyard at the end of the road. Victims of a shipwreck in the 1880's and of the Spanish flu in 1918, as well as other "loved and missed" people are buried here, right at the water's edge. Getting here involved climbing down stone steps, crossing a wooden walk over the water, and climbing a steep wooden stairway.
At the end of the hike, we looked around and no one remembered to wear their pedometer! That's two hikes out of two.
We followed the blue Ns across the heathland on the island of Sotra, which is the farthest west in the North Sea. It is the closest part of Norway to the UK's Shetland Islands. This fact becomes important later on.
Here's where we found our first marker about the history of the area. This area was the center of the Resistance when Norway was occupied by the Germans. Secret shipments of weapons and people were hidden here to go back and forth to the Shetlands.
When we got out to the edge of the land, we could see for miles.
These guys were enthusiastic hikers! They climbed rocks and trees while waiting for us to catch up. They provided great sound effects, too. Everything from helicopters to hollers. They had dry boots, unlike some of the adults, who had wet tennis shoes.
You remember Ed's quest to sit on all the benches in Europe? Well, he took a picture of most of the rest of us sitting on this one, and we didn't get one of him sitting on it. Bummer!
Here's an earthen cellar. The sign below explains that this is basically all that was left of Televåg after the Germans taught Norway a lesson by destroying the whole area. They imprisoned all the women and children and sent all the men to Germany, probably to concentration camps. All the houses you see are post WWII vintage.
Beautiful cove, isn't it?
There's an old graveyard at the end of the road. Victims of a shipwreck in the 1880's and of the Spanish flu in 1918, as well as other "loved and missed" people are buried here, right at the water's edge. Getting here involved climbing down stone steps, crossing a wooden walk over the water, and climbing a steep wooden stairway.At the end of the hike, we looked around and no one remembered to wear their pedometer! That's two hikes out of two. It was wonderful. I'm so glad so many people came and the weather cooperated.
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