Welcome to the Pig Beach

Known officially as Big Major Cay this uninhabited island of Bahama Archipelago is populated by some swimming feral pigs. There are few theories about appearing of swimming pigs. The most well known is history of sailors that have dropped their animals off on Big Major Cay by hoping to come back and eat them. The sailors, though, never returned and  the swines probably survived on excess food dumped from passing ships.
Today, famous pigs are tourist attraction, taken on many photos during swimming out to the boats in an affort to get some food.
There is a children's book dedicated to the famous pigs, "The Secret of Pig Island", written by Jennifer R. Nolan, containing photos taken by Jim Abernethy.