Various images from the trip around the eastern aspect of Godøy Island. The middle image shows a little cave in which a local war hero was hiding from the Gestapo shortly before the end of WW2 in the days of April 1945. The lower right image shows the Hogstein lighthouse on the south-east of the Island, and the lower left image shows the houses in which the lighthouse keeper used to stay prior to automatization of the lighthouse.
On this day I went for yet another hike on the mountain of the island Godøy, close to were we're living. This time I set out from a place called Djuv (or Juv) on the south side of the Island, and climbed towards the summit of the island, i.e. the peak called Storhornet. From Storhornet I took a somewhat peculiar way northeastwards, however, following first a little edge downwards to a viewpoint overlooking the southern and eastern parts of the island. From this spot I climbed back up to the pond called Lillevatnet, however, and then onto the peak called Sloktinden (there is actually about three peaks that are called Sloktindane [in plural form] by the locals, hence the singular form Sloktinden is something you're not likely to hear apart from here on Peakbook; anyway I climbed onto the easternmost of these three peaks). From there I followed the long eastern edge of the mountain downwards, but took time even to visit a little war memorial site on this part of the island, where a local war hero was hiding from the Germans in a cave (middle right photo above) in the days of April 1945. Upon arrival at the easternmost point of the island, I followed the road back to Djuv, but I took even time to walk down to Hogstein [or Høgsteinen], a promontory where an old lighthouse is located at the end of a breakwater. The lighthouse on Hogstein is from 1857, though the original lantern on top of the tower was replaced by a modern one in 1905. The tower is built in brick, and is 11 meters high.
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