We arrived at Big Major Spot well before dark. We were pleasantly pleased when the anchoring field was very large with plenty of room between boats with a nice sandy bottom. Also protected from the east- southeast winds. The water is crystal clear that you can watch your anchor hit the sandy bottom and dig right in....this also meant that we were going to be able to sleep soundly w/o any middle of the night anchor watches! Yay!
Since we had sometime before the sunset, we decided to dinghy over to the beach to stretch our legs with a nice beach walk and to see if we could make any truth to the "tale of the pigs" as said in earlier post about the island having "swimming" pigs. I gathered up some veggies, just in case we came across any pigs. As we got closer to the beach, we noticed that the beach was empty. We did our best pig call while waving our veggie bag above to see if we could get any pigs to come out of the brush. We went ahead and starting walking along the beach searching for shells, occasionally calling for the pigs. It was a matter of minutes before I caught a glimpse of a pig charging out of the bushes, heading right for me and for the bag of veggies! It caught me by surprise, as I gave a little scream and started walk quickly or should I say run in the opposite direction, only noticing she (the pig, she appeared to have just had a litter?) was running after me! As Brian stood watching and laughing, I tossed him the bag of veggies, which help change the direction of the pig towards him. It was my turn to stand and laugh, especially since the pig was jumping up, like a dog, trying to get the veggies from him. Naturally, Brian spoke to the pig as if it understood like a dog to "sit" but the pig apparently had not been trained this command. As we slowly walked towards our dinghy feeding the remaining pieces of our veggies, the pig followed us all the way out in the water, rooting for the last pieces of food in the water. Afterwards we spoke with some friends that watched the whole thing from their boat that said it was quite a comical scene! Unfortunately we did not take our camera with us, so you will have to take our word about the swimming pigs.