Exuma, a district in the Bahamas is stunningly beautiful. It consists of almost four hundred small islands, positioned languidly along 250 miles of the Atlantic Ocean north of Cuba. Many of the islands are uninhabited. Yet one of them, Big Major Cay has a population that might surprise you. There are pigs on the island and when they are not doing their best impression of beach bums they take to the water. These are the swimming pigs of the Bahamas.
Many people dream of the Bahamas as their ultimate holiday destination. For these lucky pigs, however, what was probably intended only as a brief prelude to their place on the dinner table has become a life of lazy leisure. When they are not enjoying the beach they take to the water to retrieve food thrown from passing yachts. They may not qualify for the next Olympic games but they know how to do a rather graceful piggy paddle.
