There is always lots of things to do and see in the Bahamas whether you are on a relaxing holiday for couples, honeymooners or families. Today we take a look at some of the activities happening in the Bahamas for families and Children. For those looking to buy or rent properties in the Bahamas knowing what activities there are available for families in the area is important, we have handpicked some a wide variety of activities, from sailing clubs to football camps and basketball tournaments, there is something for everybody.

Jun 17  – Aug 9: Tadpole Sailing Experience at Grand Bahama Sailing Club: Tadpole Sailing Camps for children 5-8 at the cost of $300 / sailor. Each Tadpole Camp lasts 2 weeks from 9am to 12:30pm, Monday – Friday. A fun and safe introduction to sailing. Sailors are introduced to the Optimist and Cal 25 through demonstration and on-the-water “tiller-time”. Boat parts, wind direction, fundamental skills and safety are the primary focus. Tadpole sailing gets children used to the water, boats, and making them feel comfortable at the yacht club. Being comfortable on and around the water is a big step towards a lifetime of sailing. Registration forms should be submitted to David Valentine. Phone: 727-7245 or 373-7245 Camp 1: June 17-28 / Camp 2: July 1 – 12 / Camp 3: July 15-26/ Camp 4: July 29 – August 9 Jun 6-8:

June – 6-8 HOYTES Sir Randol Fawkes Labor Day Children’s Basketball tournament. The Basketball tournament will take place in Freeport, Grand Bahama, from June 6-8  in St. George’s High School Gymnasium and children from aged 9-18 will be able to take part. Further information is here

Jun 17 – Aug 9: Summer Sailing Camp at Grand Bahama Sailing Club: Sailing camps are for children age 8-14 with or without sailing experience. Camps are for 2 weeks Mon-Fri (9am-3:30pm) at the cost of $300. Intro, intermediate, and advanced sailing camps are designed to teach children seamanship and boat handling while having fun on the water. Grand Bahama Sailing Club is the best place for children to spend their summer. Registration forms should be submitted with payment to David Valentine (david.valentine@grandbahamasailingclub.org) Phone: 727-7245 or 373-7245  Camp 1: June 17-28 / Camp 2: July 1 – 12 / Camp 3: July 15-26/ Camp 4: July 29 – August 9th of July & 12-13th

9th July and 12&13th July – Annual Devard & Devaughn Darling Football Camp Free for 11-17 year old boys & girls. Further information here

Restaurants on Grand Bahama Island are generally mid-range, with a sprinkling of high end eateries around Freeport and Lucaya. Luciano’s at Port Lucaya Marketplace and Marina is probably at the top end of the pile, and has been positively reviewed in a handful of reputed publications, among them the NY Times.  

Restaurants vary in size and style, from charming bistros to loud and ambient Irish bars. Like most things, referrals are generally the best way to find the quality you’re looking for. Our staff at Suffolk Court are happy to point visitors to top eateries in the area.

 Here is a link to the most reviewed restaurants in Grand Bahama, according to the world-famous Trip Advisor website:

 http://www.tripadvisor.ie/Restaurants-g147419 Grand_Bahama_Island_Bahamas.html#EATERY_OVERVIEW_BOX

Visitors looking for information about where to stay for their Bahamas vacation are welcome to peruse this site for information on top Bahamas vacation rentals and luxury Bahamas property, located close to the centre of activity on the island.

The Annual Grand Bahama Sailing regatta is happening this June. The event kicks off from Taino Beach, where fleets of sloops line up to vie for the title of ‘Champion of The Sea.’ The regatta has been going strong for years, and attracts a mixture of professional and competitive sailors, as well as fledgling sailors wanting to cut their teeth. The event, though essentially competitive, is also open to curious sailors who want to join in for fun, or who just want to soak up the atmosphere the regatta generates. For visitors who simply want to take it in, there’s lots of entertainment of offer, with music, food and other Bahaman feel good celebrations happening in Taino. Taino is widely considered one of the most stunning beaches on Grand Bahama Island.

The waters of Grand Bahama make an idyllic setting for this great sporting event, with glistening aquamarine beaches scattered along its shoreline. Sailors wishing to travel by boats can arrive to the island via the three official ports of entry, namely: Freeport, Lucaya and West End. Customs and immigration will assess boats for entry upon arrival.  In total, there are seven marinas on the island, most of them fully equipped with electricity hubs, waste-disposal units and fuel stations, which sailors can make use of.

The regatta will be held over three days, and has three main sloop classifications: “A” – 28 feet and up, “B” – Up to 20 feet and “C” – 12 to 14 feet.

A cash prize is awarded to the winner, as well as the ego-boosting title ‘Champion of the Seas.’ It’s a great event, and one that gathers the community in a spirit of fun and sportsmanship.

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Activities will centre on Taino Beach Park, a popular hub for the island festivals.

Junkaroo recognises the history of the slave trade in the Bahamas and is thought to have first began somewhere between the 16^th and 17^th centuries. It was around that time that slaves were granted 3 days off: December 25^th and 26^th, and January 1^st. In a celebration of freedom from the shackles of hard labour, the island’s slaves poured onto the streets to blow off steam.

Rhythmic beats from goatskin drums fill the atmosphere in commemoration of the slaves who once stretched goatskin across specially crafted drums. Historically, the slaves made musical instruments like drums from cast-off items like food containers. Today’s musicians, in honour of their ancestors, use similar methods.

Due to popularity, the festival has since grown to include summer vacation months. During this time, hoards of celebrants take to the streets in wild oceans of colour that have been compared to Brazil’s Mardi Gras. 

The event is Co-ordinated by the Ministry of Tourism and Aviation, and is widely attended by the local population and enthralled tourists.

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The award-winning Our Lucaya Beach and Golf Resort boasts two elite courses: Our Lucaya, designed by Dick Wilson; and Reef Course, designed by Robert Trent Jones Jr. The courses have been acclaimed by professional and recreational golfers alike, and offer challenging sessions in stunning locations.  

Here are some quick reviews of the Islands most popular golf courses:

• Our Lucayan course spreads over 6,824 acres, with tree-lined doglegs and elevated tropical greens predominating.  The Reef Course is played with water off 3 holes.
• The Ruby and Emerald courses at Bahamia Resort, near Freeport, are 18-hole, par 72 courses. Originally designed by Dick Wilson and Joe Lee in 1964, the courses were recently redesigned by Jim Fazio Golf Design. An investment of $6 million in upgrades and renovations has resulted in a course that tests endurance and skill.
• The Ruby stretches and winds over 7,000 yards. The Emerald, a 6,800-yard tree-lined course, boasts vast fairways and breathtaking views.
• Fortune Hills is a high-end golf and country club. It sprawls across 17 acres and was built in 1971. It’s a Championship 9-hole course offers challenging holes on some of the most elevated greens in The Bahamas. The number one handicap hole is the par 4 third, a 400-yard layout. It is the only water hole on the nine-hole course and has the smallest green.

Whether for pleasure or a challenging golfing trip, Grand Bahama has plenty to offer the golfer. Please check out our website for information about our Bahamas condo or Bahamas vacation rentals, or our elite Bahamas property.

A yoga retreat under palm trees, anyone? With a seafront vista? The Bahamas, without a doubt, is a  seductress of the soul. The islands are peppered with other unique treasures, such as Lucayan National Park, home of the world’s largest underwater cave system. The Arawak Indians lived in the stalactite-decorated caves long before Christopher Columbus discovered the islands of the Bahamas. The nearby mangrove system of Gold Rock Beach is a picture perfect location for kayakers.

If that doesn’t float your boat, there’s more. Pony lovers can spend days riding friendly, well-trained ponies along Grand Bahama beaches and remote coastal trails. The treks are intended to give tourists a special vantage point from which to take in the breathtaking scenery that Grand Bahama is famed for.

The Rand Nature Centre, just outside Freeport, sits on 100 acres of land, making it double the size of Lucayan National Park. From here, birdwatchers can spy pelicans, hummingbirds, spoonbills, flamingos and other species of bird.

Undersea adventurers can use the services of qualified scuba divers to check out stunning coral reefs or to make contact with dolphins.

Suffolk Court’s Bahamas property and Bahamas vacation rentals are situated conveniently close to Freeport airport. We are also within easy reach of all of Grand Bahama’s tourist attractions.  Find out more about our Condo Rentals.

There are discerning people out there who already know what it took Mr Price years to learn. These are successful people who, through whatever medium or forte, have achieved enough wealth to enjoy financial freedom. The definition of wealth, some would say, is not just having enough money; it is also having enough time to enjoy it. Having wealth doesn’t automatically bestow this knowledge, though. It takes some people more than a while to understand that taking time to enjoy pleasure is as intrinsic to life as rain.

A healthy understanding about the positives of living life in the lap of the finest things on offer – true luxury – is quite scant. Let us tell you then that The Bahamas, home of Suffolk Court luxury Bahamas property, has a reputation for bringing people round to the idea of enjoying their wealth.

Private yacht hires, sunset cruises, cloistered beachfront pampering houses and cocktails on pearly-white sand are just a few of the things on offer on our turquoise shores. Strawberry and chocolate facials, rose-oil foot massages and deep neck rubs are a few more. If that doesn’t touch your pleasure nerve, how about a feast of delicious conch cuisine? Maybe a game of golf or two on paradise island? A bird’s eye view of our palm-fringed island from the lofty heights of a private jet?

Different parts of the world are known for different things. Sensory stimulation is to New York what romance is to Paris. But Luxury, the finest of all things in life, belongs to The Bahamas; not exclusively, but pretty close to it.

Please, feel free to browse through our range of Bahamas property, our Bahamas vacation rentals and our Bahamas condos to see what we mean.

The Bahamas is beauty incarnate. It’s no coincidence that our national bird, the flamingo, is a symbol of beauty, balance and grace. The pink hues of our feathered wildlife have inspired many a writer to wax lyrical. The island’s aquamarine waters, in infinite shades of blue and green, moved celebrated Bahamian artist Amos Ferguson to capture them with a brush.

Orchids and Frangipanis bloom in the Bahamas in rainbow spectrums. The vanilla scent of the Night-Blooming Cereus has been known to, as Oscar Wilde wrote in praise of flowers, ‘cure a common man’s woe.’ The yellow bell-shaped petals of the yellow elder, the Island’s national flower, dot the Bahamas in a pigment bright enough to inspire poetry.

The Bahamas is unquestionably an ideal location for a perfect wedding ceremony, whether vows are exchanged on a beach at sunset or indoors on sacred grounds. Wedding planners here do a roaring trade in organising dream weddings for national and international clients for one obvious reason: it is one of the best destinations in the world for romance.

Our luxury Bahamas property is set in a beautiful location, close to Freeport airport. Our Bahamas vacation rentals are perfect for honeymooners and their wedding guests. Please make an enquiry about your wedding day. We’d be happy to help you make your special day perfect.

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As all genuine creators know, the support of an inspirational environment to get lost in is crucial to the creative process. The appreciation artists have for the Bahamas as a source of creativity is reassuring. Isn’t it good for modern culture to know that our most successful artists hunger to embrace natural paradises; places where the rhythm of nature is still sought out?

It’s not widely known that much of the musical genius that beats through iPods across the planet has its genesis in The Bahamas. The Bahamas as a creator’s haven is sort of a secret; a whisper that makes its way through only the circles that have ears to hear it.

In their hey day, ABBA, that quaffed Swedish quartet famed for eccentric haircuts and jumpsuits, used the super-famous Compass Point Studios in Nassau to record some of their music. Bob Marley crooned out the lyrics that would inspire generations to come to believe in one love from there; Jay-Z collaborates to this day with artists from the idyllic setting of its glass-cased studios. With a stellar assortment of the world’s major music personalities behind it, it’s undeniable: the Bahamas is one of the best places in the world to inspire creativity.

Our luxury Bahamas property and Bahamas vacation rentals are perfect for all the creative artists out there looking for a release. Our team is on hand to take requests about our superior range of Bahamas property, as well as advice about the Island’s most secluded parts – the kind conducive to high creativity.

The wild parts of the island; ‘the bush,’ as they are known to locals, are a trophy to adventure, offering exciting opportunities to connect with the adventurer in you. Freeport is peppered with fun loving, eco-minded tour operators; the kind that can take you far underwater and to places like Paradise Cove, Lucayan National Park (named after the Bahamas’ indigenous aborigines) and, of course, to majestic coral reefs. If the mood takes you, you can find a conch, crack it and take it home for dinner.  

But, if activity requires more energy that you intended to expend on your Bahaman vacation, you have options. Scores of hidden beaches, secret coves and hush-hush enclaves dot Grand Bahama Island. These are the places to get in touch with stillness; the same peaceful kind that inspired Irish poet Yeates to write the poem, Inisfree. Secret Bahaman hideaways are, like Inisfree, places where “peace comes dropping slow; dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings…” They truly are places where “midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow…”

Whichever your choice, activity or tranquillity, one thing is sure: you’re going to be mesmerized, seduced or, at the least, totally taken with Grand Bahama..

The Ecotourism Association of Grand Bahama works with businesses and organizations across the Island to ensure that tourism here stays Green. The right kind of tourist is encouraged to holiday in Grand Bahama; the kind that cares about the environment and appreciates its magnificence, especially in unique places where visitors can swim with wild dolphins and whales, or swim in tropical coral reefs. The island is dedicated to perpetuating its raw beauty, and calls on tourists to respect this objective. If that sounds like you, we would be delighted to give you more information about our Bahama Condos /  vacation rentals or information to assist you in purchasing our Bahama property.

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