Last Sunday we went to a pebble beach called Mølen. It’s part of the terminal moraine that the last ice age left around a lot of the Norwegian coast, so the pebbles on it are of very different rocks of very different ages. Nice place.

They have a permanent exhibition of some of the different rocks found on Mølen. The oldest stones are around 1,5 billion years old while the youngest, flint, is only about 60 million years old. Most of the rocks were brought here from the mountains by the immense glacier, but the flint probably floated up from Denmark or somewhere frozen in chunks of ice.

The pebble beach at Mølen.

It was a windy day with waves breaking against the shore.

But there were still a lot of boats out.

There’s always seagulls by the fjord.

And Common Eider with chicks. Very cute.
They are swimming by rocks that are the remains of an ancient shield volcano, long since eroded away except for these rocks.

There are also different plants. This one is called Strandsnelle in Norwegian and is a kind of Equisetum.

I don’t know what this is called, but it’s very pretty growing in a puddle. This day I think the puddle was filled with fresh water, but it’s close to the sea, so I think it’s equally as often filled with salt water. Makes for hardy plants.

Other wild flowers were more sheltered from the sea, and the bees were busy.

And at last, a wild rose.

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