Bygging av Lindås sluser 1908 The history of Lindås sea locks
Bildet er fargelagt av Roy Tvedt. History of Lindås sea locks By Gunn Nordal and Stein Ottosen Lindåsstraumane (Straumen=tidal current) In "Topographical-historical accounts" from 1896, Lindåsstraumane is mentioned with the strongest in the country. “They go in by river and out again by low tide with rumble and noise like waterfall." When they strongest of these currents were at their strongest, the steamboats could not go against them. Several times they had to lie for hours to get through. Kjerringstraumen, Skallestraumen, Flatstraumen and Haukåsstraumen. Kjerringstraumen saw the Lygrefjord in connection with a small pool which was left by two streams, Skallestraumen on the north side and Flatstraumen on the south side of Mølleholmen, are connected with it large Lindås basin which includes Straumsosen and Spjeldneshavet. Haukåsstraumen forms the connection between the pool and Fjellangervågen inside. «Pinebenken» The quay
