Winding Bay Beach is nestled between Rock Sound and Tarpum Bay on Eleuthera. It is considered as one of Eleuthera’s prettiest pink sand beaches. Hotels, Clubs & Accommodation Winding Bay Beach Cottages Postcards 1979 – Acme Press (Type 1)
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Bahamas Philately: Eleuthera – Rock Sound
The major settlement of Rock Sound in South Eleuthera was originally called New Portsmouth. At one stage it was also called Wreck Sound, because of the wrecking of ships out on the reefs. Many feel that Rock Sound is very appropriate, because of a large rock located between the…
View More Bahamas Philately: Eleuthera – Rock SoundBahamas Philately: Eleuthera – Wemyss Bight
Wemyss Bight is a settlement in South Eleuthera. POSTAL SERVICES Sub Post Office
View More Bahamas Philately: Eleuthera – Wemyss BightBahamas Philately: Grand Bahama – Lucaya
Lucaya is a suburb of Freeport, Bahamas, a city on the island of Grand Bahama. The area was developed as part of the Grand Bahama Port Authority’s redevelopment of Freeport/Lucaya. While the western portion of Freeport was developed for industrial and commercial use, the eastern portion of Lucaya was developed…
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West End (also referred to as Settlement Point) is the oldest town and westernmost settlement on Grand Bahama. Since the 1950s, the settlement of West End has fluctuated with the rise and fall of the adjacent resort developments. Records from West End show that the population in 1836 was…
View More Bahamas Philately: Grand Bahama – West EndBahamas Philately: Crooked Island
Crooked Island is part of a group of islands semi-encircling a large, shallow lagoon called the Bight of Acklins, of which the largest is the northern Crooked Island. The main town on the island is Colonel Hill. The islands were settled by American Loyalists in the late 1780s who set…
View More Bahamas Philately: Crooked IslandBahamas Philately: Acklins and Crooked Islands
Acklins and Crooked Islands consisted of a group of islands semi-encircling a large, shallow lagoon called the Bight of Acklins, of which the largest are Crooked Island in the north and Acklins in the south-east, and the smaller are Long Cay (once known as Fortune Island) in the north-west, and…
View More Bahamas Philately: Acklins and Crooked IslandsBahamas Philately: Ragged Island
Ragged Island is an island in the southern Bahamas. Ragged Island is part of the Jumentos Cays and Ragged Island Chain. The crescent-shaped chain measures over 180 km in length and includes cays known as Raccoon Cay, Hog Cay and Double-Breasted Cay. Island ownership is stated to have been granted…
View More Bahamas Philately: Ragged IslandBahamas Philately: Hog Island – Paradise Beach
During the 1920s, Frank Munson, of the Munson Steamship Line, bought a crescent shaped beach-front property on Hog Island, across from Nassau. He bought and installed cabanas for guests and named the placed Paradise Beach. By the 1930s the beach became popular with America’s winter leisure class. Visitors accessed the…
View More Bahamas Philately: Hog Island – Paradise BeachBahamas Philately: Long Island
Long Island is an island in The Bahamas that is split by the Tropic of Cancer. Its capital is Clarence Town. Archaeological evidence shows that the Lucayan Taíno tribe settled on Long Island, probably in the island’s cave system. After the demise of the Lucayans, who were taken as slaves…
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