Today’s walk was short and in the early morning, at about 8 am. My husband and I had been food shopping in Straumen and we chose a short walk to get some fresh air and exercise before breakfast and before getting down to work.
The starting part of our walk was at Sundneshamn which is about 2 km from the center of Straumen.
On the left is the name as is used to be and on the right the way it is written today. The top picture is actually a painting which was painted about 1900. The lower picture is taken from the hill in Straumen. The large white building would have been the store and Peder Saxhaug’s residence.
From the information sign: “Herman Løchen at Sundnes was the driving force for steam shipping on the Trondheim Fjord. When steam shipping became a reality in 1856, he had a wharf and warehouse constructed here, in addition to a general store.
“When Løchen died in 1876, Lornts Saxhaug continued the management of the general store and the steam ship wharf. However, in 1913 his son, Peder M Saxhaug, bought it all and had a bigger house built for the store and as a residence. Additionally, a bakery, a petrol pump and sale of building materials was located here. His son, Steffen, succeeded him and ran the business until 1981.
“In 1971, Felleskjøpet (a cooperative organization for farmers) set up a warehouse here and took over the management of the fertilisers and animal feed that arrived by boat. Goods were also shipped from here. Kari and Per Saxhaug took over the property and continued the management of the shop until 1987. They bought the warehouse from Felleskjøpet and managed this just as long. The quay facilities are today privately owned.”
Today it is mostly the quay that is used as well as the small boat harbor.
The small boat harbor at Sundneshamn, looking towards Saxhaug Church (you should be able to find its steeple in the background.Middle Norway Wooden Boat Workshop – this is at the main quay at Sundneshamn.SDS Hansteen at the quay.SDS Hansteen has been fixed up nicely. The tourist information calls it the world’s oldest steam sail ship.SDS Hansteen
As we started on our walk, we had the inevitable signposts.
Sundneshamn in the background, with the warehouse right behind the signs. We are going towards Jægtvolden, the local hotel, but we aren’t going quite that far, so we probably walked maximum one kilometer on our walk, including wandering around the quay.We climbed a short hill and came across this small building with its grass roof. Wild flowers on the roof were unusual, though the flowers can be found all over the place in Inderøy. They are a type of pansy.At 8 am on a Saturday morning it was very quiet here. We walked by a few houses and some summer cabins. The view is looking towards Levanger.We then headed into a wooded area.Somebody had been building a tree house.If you weren’t sure where to go, there was a sign to give the correct direction.But first a walk out to the fjord. The white building in the background is Jægtvolden Hotel. We didn’t walk that far.Back to the main path and there was our check-in point, with the sign tied to a spruce tree. This was our turning around point and we headed back to the car.The smaller wharf at Sundneshamn.There are farms in the middle of the picture and behind that is route 755. To the right is the center of the village of Straumen. To the left is Utøy and home. There have been quite a lot of new homes built on the hillside. At the top of the hill is a small hotel, Husfrua Country Farm Hotel.
We enjoyed the short walk, but we were wanting our breakfast so a half hour walk was sufficient. In the summer months, it is often quite enjoyable to go for a walk around 8 am, when the world is still peaceful, the sun is shining brightly and the temperature is still relatively cool. Enjoy your own walk today.
