The road to get to the path was nondescript and you basically had to park on the side of the road. It was right next to a couple of houses that people lived in and the path between the houses, which turned out to be farms, felt like you were walking down their driveway and over their property. It felt a bit odd to be walking through fields that weren't marked, but we kept going anyway towards the sea despite also having to dodge a herd of cattle.
After we cut through the farms and pastures from the road, I felt better about walking along the rocky coastline to the old boathouse because it didn't feel like we were on their fields. But then we got over to what we thought was going to be a ruin of one building or bunker and quickly realized that the whole area was littered with dozens of old WW2 Nazi buildings, storehouses, and gun turrets looking out to sea.
It was quite bizarre to find an entire abandoned area just sitting in the back of farmer's fields along the coastline, with no paths, signs or anything blocking the way. We were equally as shocked to realize that the old bunker was wide open and able to be explored inside. No safety warnings, no ticket booths, you could just go wherever and do whatever you wanted.
Obviously, I went into the bunker first with my standard issue iPhone flashlight to make sure it was safe. Other than rubble and things like rusty old sharp metal sticking out of the floor here and there, it was relatively fine to go inside and explore. I never thought I'd be seeing the inside of a Nazi bunker on that day, and for the first time being in Norway.
There were several small rooms with the German name still painted on the walls. The was a map ("karten") room, a radio ("funk") room, and other rooms for storage (I assume things like ammunition) before we got to the main room and the main observation room of the ocean.
We climbed around inside the bunker and took some pictures. We also climbed on the top of it, as well as explored another smaller bunker and other ruins. I think most of the other buildings we saw were mostly storage built into the ground. Searching on the internet later yielded very little information other Thant the main bunker was built by Russian POWs and that possibly one of the buildings on one of the farms was used as officer and other housing while soldiers were stationed there.
As I mentioned, this whole thing was quite a surprise find. Jonathan definitely thought it was one of the better things we did while we were in Stavanger.
