Grand Bahama offers a host of activities for the environmentally sensitive. They include ecoadventures like kayaking, hiking and jeep riding through remote areas for a close-up look at mangroves, birds and marine life. If you like the idea of travelling around the world in minutes, head for Freeport's International Bazaar. This collection of 80 shops and restaurants features virtual-reality settings in Paris, Spain, the Greek islands, Denmark, Hong Kong and about 10 other exotic locales. Not to be outdone, Lucaya boasts Port Lucaya Marketplace, a waterfront six-acre shopping, dining and entertainment complex with funky architecture and a bandstand centrepiece at Count Basie Square.
Entertainment includes jazz, rythym and blues, limbo and fire dancers and more.
There are at least 50 courts, some with lighting at night. Grand Bahama is the third- largest Bahama island, about 65 miles east ofPalm Beach. If you are American and a touch homesick, go to a hill in West End. The Freeport area has been chosen as the site for the first Footprints resort, a new concept in resort destinations that combines upscale, secluded, romantic vacations with educational and adventurous, environmentally sensitive activities. The resort will consist of about 135 individual cabins nestled at the edge of the Lucayan National Park at Gold Rock Creek.