May 23rd - May 24th Uthaug - Stokksund (Kuringvågen marina) and Harbak via bike
While the rest of the boats not sailing together had to return to Trondheim I had a week worth of collected overtime to spend and decided to sail northeast to maximise the forecasted southeasterlies. Thus I ended up in one of mye usual places at Kuringvågen marina.
Instead of sailing on the 24th I decided to pack out my bike and bike out to Hardbak with the ambition to walk up to the cave there. Regrettaby due to my fear of heights I couldn't make myself traversing the path up there, even though it is unusually well adapted for Norway with stairs and safety lines (some of which can be seen on the image below.
The cave is around 140 m deep and 40 m high. In side there is a stone wall that most likely built around 2000 years ago as some kind of fortification the locals could retract to if enemies attached the population in the area. Uninhabited fortifications for this purpose is not uncommon during this time. Few offer the kind of protection found in the Hardbak cave though.
Since I was not able to get to the cave I decided to bike a bit further out to be able to enjoy some of the views over the sea and archipelagos outside on this beautiful day. It probably wasn't as spectacular from sea level as it would have been from the cave, but on this beautiful spring day I didn't care much.
On one of the farms at Hardbak have diversified their livestock a little. Even though lamas are from high above the sea on the other side of the earth I guess that they are well adapted to the harsh climate far out on the Fosen coast. And since the open landscape at the Norwegian coast actually must be cultivated by grassing livestock they probably is a welcome addition to the increasingly more and more difficult task of conserving this cultural landscape.
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