Pig Beach Big Majors Cay If you have ever seen a brochure, a website, or a YouTube video of The Bahamas, you probably have seen the famous swimming pigs of Big Majors Cay. Brought by pirates in the Golden Age of Bucaneers... No, it wasn't like that at all. Many families on Staniel Cay had a pigpen. When tourism began picking up in the late 1960's the residents thought to move the smell to nearby Tom Cay. But, the pigs swam back. So, they were resettled to Big Majors Cay. It was a good location. The pigs thrived and learned to swim out to the residents' approaching boats, which nearly always carried treats. The relationship between pigs and people remained agrarian and small scale. Cruisers visiting Staniel Cay often anchor at Big Majors and they discovered the pigs on shore that swam out to meet their approaching dinghies. But, word was not passed around broadly, until the age of smartphones and social media arrived. The rest is (recent) history.