When most people visit the Bahamas , they ’re thinking about a vacation take with sun , sand , and swim — not swine . But you’re able to get all four of those things if you visit Big Major Cay .
Big Major Cay , also now known as “ Pig Island ” for obvious reasons , is part of the Exuma Cays in the Bahamas . Exuma let in private islandsowned byJohnny Depp , Tyler Perry , Faith Hill and Tim McGraw , and David Copperfield . Despite all of the local star power , the real attractor seems to be the syndicate of feral bull that has set up Big Major Cay as their own . It ’s intemperate to say how many are there — some report say it ’s a household of eight , while others say the numbers are up to 40 . However big the band of roll pigs is , none of them are diffident : Their primary substance of survival seems to be to float right up to sauceboat and beg for solid food , which the charmed holidaymaker are happy to provide ( although there are guidelines about thebest wayof feeding the pigs ) .
No one cognize precisely how the squealer get there , but there are plenty of theory . Among them : 1 ) A nearby refuge purposely released them more than a decennium ago , hoping to attract tourist . 2 ) Sailorsdroppedthem off on the island , intending to dine on pork once they were capable to tail for a longer of menstruum of time . For one reason or another , the Panama hat never give back . 3 ) They ’re descendant of reclaim pig bed from a nearby island . When residents complained about the original tame copper , their ownerssolvedthe problem by drop off them off at Big Major Cay , which was uninhabited . 4 ) The pigssurviveda shipwreck . The ship ’s passengers did not .
The purposeful tourist trap possibility is probably the least belike — VICEreports that the James Bond movieThunderballwas shot on a neighboring island in the sixties , and the swim swine were there then .
Though multiple articles reference how “ lovely ” the Sus scrofa are , do n’t be fooled . One captainwarns , “ They ’ll eat anything and everything — including fingers . ”
Here they are in action in a TV fromNational Geographic :
