Swimming Pigs

Swimming Pigs in Big Majors Spot

Many thanks to our member Tor Pinney for letting us publish his article about the swimming pigs of the Exumas in the Bahamas.

Can pigs swim? In the Exumas, they can! The Bahamian island of Big Majors Spot in the Exumas is home to a small herd of free-range domestic pigs, swimming pigs. Big Majors also boasts a broad harbour often crowded with transient cruising boats heading down islands, migrating north, or just hangin’ out.

Over the years, the pigs have learned that human visitors sometimes bring them food scraps. Rather than wait for their biped benefactors to beach their dinghies, the pigs evolved the habit of swimming out to meet them. The result is fun and funny to watch. Sometimes some of the swimming pigs will actually try to climb aboard to speed up the feast!

The swimming pigs belong to some locals from nearby Staniel Cay, who periodically come over to harvest one or two of their livestock. There’s one old stud, however, who is never taken since he does such a great job siring piglets. Lucky pig. For those less fortunate whose time has come, there is another, the separate beach at the far opposite corner of the harbour, sometimes referred to as Barbecue Beach. The pigs don’t go there voluntarily. It is, however, occupied by a herd of free-range goats. Non-swimming goats.

Many thanks to Tor for letting us publish his article on the swimming pigs and to reproduce his fantastic photos.  For more nautical articles please visit his website Tor Pinney’s Homeport

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