Lucaya is a suburb of
Freeport, Bahamas
Freeport is a city, district and free trade zone on the island of Grand Bahama in the northwest part of The Bahamas. In 1955, Wallace Groves, a Virginian financier with lumber interests in Grand Bahama, was granted of pineyard with substant ...
, a city on the island of
Grand Bahama
Grand Bahama is the northernmost of the islands of the Bahamas. It is the third largest island in the Bahamas island chain of approximately 700 islands and 2,400 cays. The island is roughly in area and approximately long west to east and at it ...
, approximately 105 mi (160 km) east-northeast of
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Fort Lauderdale ( ) is a coastal city located in the U.S. state of Florida, north of Miami along the Atlantic Ocean. It is the county seat of and most populous city in Broward County, Florida, Broward County with a population of 182,760 at the ...
. Lucaya's primary industry is tourism.
Major hotels and attractions in the resort are the Our Lucaya resort, which includes both The Radisson and Reef Village properties, Pelican Bay Hotel and the UNEXSO (UNderwater EXplorers SOciety) dive charter operation.
UNEXSO was the first destination dive charter business in the world and now features a
dolphinarium
A dolphinarium is an aquarium for dolphins. The dolphins are usually kept in a pool, though occasionally they may be kept in pens in the open sea, either for research or public performances. Some dolphinariums (sometimes called dolphinaria in plu ...
as well as a variety of
SCUBA diving
Scuba diving is a Diving mode, mode of underwater diving whereby divers use Scuba set, breathing equipment that is completely independent of a surface breathing gas supply, and therefore has a limited but variable endurance. The word ''scub ...
charters including shark feeding dives.
Port Lucaya is a popular
spring break
Spring break is a vacation period at universities and schools that includes the Easter holiday, and takes place in early Northern Hemisphere spring. Introduced in the U.S. during the 1930s, spring break has been observed in Europe since t ...
destination with the socializing centering on
Count Basie
William James "Count" Basie (; August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984) was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer. In 1935, he formed the Count Basie Orchestra, and in 1936 took them to Chicago for a long engagement and the ...
Square.
See also
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Lucaya International School
Lucaya International School is an international school in Freeport, Grand Bahama Island. The schools offers early years to grade 13 education to Bahamians and foreign residents.
The school
The school was founded in 1998 with the main goal of ...
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Albert Tillman
Albert Alvin Tillman (January 16, 1928 – January 16, 2004) was an American educator and underwater diver.
Biography
Tillman was born in Los Angeles, California. He became interested in marine and underwater life when, at age 10, he peered thr ...
Gallery
File:LucayaBeach.JPG, Lucaya beach
File:PortLucayaBeach.jpg, Lucaya seashore
File:Port Lucaya Marketplace Entrance.jpg, Port Lucaya Marketplace
File:PortLucaya.jpg, Count Basie Square
File:PortLucayaMarketplace.jpg, Shops
File:PortLucayaMarketplaceAndMarina.jpg , Marketplace and Marina
File:PortLucayaMarina.jpg, Port Lucaya Marina
File:bahamas-direction-sign.jpg, Sign at Lucaya giving distances to other places
References
Populated places in the Bahamas
Grand Bahama
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