Lughaya sits directly on the Gulf of Aden, and the coast is what defines the place. The town's small fishing harbour still uses traditional wooden dhows alongside more recent fibreglass skiffs; the catch — tuna, kingfish, lobster, the occasional shark — is sold on the beach at dawn and consumed locally or trucked to Berbera and Hargeisa.
The beach itself runs for kilometres east and west of the town and is almost entirely undeveloped: clear, warm water, white sand, no infrastructure, no other visitors. Swimming is possible — although you should ask locally about currents and the always-relevant question of what is in the water — and birdwatching along the shore is rewarding at dawn. The coast in this stretch is part of the Guban, the hot, dry coastal plain that runs along the Somaliland coast.