There is a saying that states: “If you lay with pigs, you will get dirty.” For this reason, and this reason only, I have never actually lain with a pig. I am really glad that saying didn’t mention anything about swimming though, because I just discovered Pig Island, and I am already halfway into my recreational water-sports thong.
Pig Island is more commonly known as Big Major Cay, located in the Bahamas. The island itself is uninhabited except for about 20 wild pigs and piglets, which spend their days laying out, harvesting for food, and doing the doggie paddle with all kinds of tourists.
There is no set explanation for how the pigs arrived on the island, but several theories attribute the phenomenon to sailors, who planned to come back and cook the pigs but never returned, or a shipwreck, which left the pigs homeless, and desperately in need of some water wings.
Whatever the reason, Pig Island does exist, and if you go to the Bahamas without making a quick pig-stop (see what I did there?) to visit the Island, chances are you hate animals and have a piece of molten coal where your heart should be.
