A cloudy morning today turned into a sunny
afternoon. So after both of us had worked at our computers for three hours, we
decided to check out the Thunderball Grotto for snorkeling, now that the waves
had calmed down.
The waves may have been calm – but the
current wasn’t! Jeff could barely swim against it, and I didn’t even try.
People who did get in while we watched from our dinghy said the current almost
sucked them out the other side L. So instead, we “snorkeled” from the dinghy, with our heads over
the side, adorned with mask and snorkel. It was actually quite good – lots of
colourful Parrot fish, beautiful coral and Jeff saw a three foot nurse shark!
Then we took a long ride all around Big
Major Spot Island to the other side, where there was a beach off which pigs (yes,
pigs!) swam out to be fed by us. We knew about the pigs, and had come equipped
with left-overs – for which they grunted
their appreciation.
We heard from other cruisers that the pigs
were brought to the Island after 9/11 by Bahamians who thought that their food
supply might be threatened by a US war with the terrorists. So they left the
pigs on the Island to forage and fatten up for food. But since they didn’t get
eaten, they instead became a tourist attraction.
“I didn’t know pigs could swim” quipped
Jeff, as we dinghied back to Sea Change – tired but very satisfied. Another
beautiful day in Paradise.
The pics below are from our afternoon
yesterday touring Staniel Cay in a rented golf cart, and from today’s dinghy
ride to the swimming pigs.
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