Ok - I'll be honest with you... when the Captain announced during breakfast that the first dive of the day needed to be kept from getting too long so that we could skip the second dive of the day to go see the swimming pigs, I honestly wasn't all that excited. I mean seriously... they're just pigs, right?

Well, sort of... they were just pigs... but it was a pretty cool experience.

As we approached the beach aboard the Sea Dog (the Aqua Cat's tender boat), there was quite the welcoming committee, including some that swam out to greet us.

So yeah - pigs might not be able to fly, but they definitely can swim.

The crew had brought a bag of apples for us to feed the pigs, so we spent some time interacting with them. I have some video that I will share soon (I think I want to put multiple clips together into a single video, and so need some extra time for that).

So yeah, as it turns out, skipping a dive to visit the swimming pigs of the Bahamas really was worth while. Talking to Brigette about it, I guess they have been on the Aqua Cat vessel a couple times before and the opportunity to visit these pigs didn't present itself, so this really was a treat.

Oh - I did learn one more thing...

These pigs really didn't have a problem with hamming it up for the cameras! (HAH! I couldn't pass that one up!)

Thanks for stopping by!

- Bill