Two delights awaited us today: swimming pigs at Big Major Spot and the Thunderball Grotto at Staniel Cay.Big Major Spot was crowded with boats – mostly the larger stinkpots -- when we arrived and there was no pig to be seen on the beach or in the sea. We anchored anyway and kept watch on the beach. Not too much later, we spied pigs through the binoculars. The first shore party raced off in the dinghy but were beaten to the punch by another boat. The pigs did as promised – as soon as they heard a boat they stop rooting around on the beach and swam out to the noise. We had to compete with the other dinghy for attention and since we’d brought lettuce and they had something far more delectable to pig senses, we had quite a job. Finally we got their attention although they weren’t much interested in lettuce and one tried to climb onto the boat to see what else we had. It was quite unnerving to see both its front trotters on the side of the boat...
Once we’d exhausted the thrills of swimming pigs, we moved to Staniel Cay and moored near Thunderball Cave. Tide and current meant that the best time to snorkel the Cave was around 5pm. By this point we were very low on fresh anything so I decided to check out the Cay’s stores while the others went snorkelling. I had a pleasant walk to Island General but the mail boat hadn’t been for a while so we were still short on fresh anything by the time Chris picked me up in the dinghy. Fortunately the spelunkers had a much better time!
Pics: Swimming pigs -- beer drinking pigs, swimming pigs... what's next? Flying pigs? A couple of shots of Main Street Staniel Cay
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