Bahamas Water Pigs
I ended up going with exuma water sports on the half day tour as the full day was cancelled due to windy weather.
Bahamas water pigs. Where are the swimming pigs located. Some of the smaller bahamas pigs are very athletic swimmers. I ve seen one small pig swim at least 200 meters off pig beach to a super yacht in search for food.
Some of the smaller pigs are actually really athletic swimmers. It has become a tourist attraction in modern times. With daily visits from bahamians and tourists the pigs are living the easy life on big major cay.
However the type of show that the bahamas pigs put on for you will differ depending on how crowded pig beach bahamas is. Pig beach located on big major cay also known as major cay is a beach on an uninhabited island or cay located in exuma the bahamas the island takes its unofficial name from the fact that it is populated by a colony of feral pigs which live on the island. First it is absolutely mandatory that you do not feed the bahamas pigs anything but fruit vegetables and bread.
Due to the popularity of the first pig beach farther north in the exuma keys some business savvy locals decided to create another pig beach and placed farm raised pigs on a small beach. Wherever they came from there are now about 20 pigs and piglets on pig beach. Still want to know more purchase pigs of paradise.
The full version of when pigs swim premiered at the 2014 bahamas international film festival where it won the haven award of best documentary short. There are about 20 pigs that live on big major cay and they can often be seen in the pristine ocean waters around the island. Proper etiquette of swimming with pigs bahamas.
7 hostels in bahamas that are a perfect blend of luxury and comfort. Safety briefing over we headed into the water with our skewers and loaded them up with apple chunks. Pig beach is located on a small uninhabited island in the exumas called big major cay which is part of the outer islands of the bahamas.
It has since appeared in four other film. The story of the world famous swimming pigs book. There are a few suggested rules once arriving on pig beach to go swimming with the pigs.
Big major cay also called pig island because it is inhabited by swimming pigs is an island of the exumas. The best time to visit the pigs would be in the mornings as by late afternoon the pigs are fed and they would be relaxing and lounging on the sand and hardly any pigs would be in the water swimming. The second pig beach is closer to great exuma.
The pigs also have pretty powerful jaws so keeping your fingers out of the way while feeding them is really important. Soon you will be swimming with pigs in that turquoise blue water on an exuma swimming pigs tour you won t soon forget. This is for the safety and well being of the pigs and must be followed.
