They're far from snobbish, though: These pigs are friendly, extroverted creatures who happily swim and pose for photos with their human admirers.
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The Staniel Cay Adventures offers the swimming with the pigs excursion from Nassau for $510.00. It includes a quick flight. Like other tours, the tour includes swimming with the pigs, swimming with the sharks, visiting the iguanas, snorkeling, and more.
Expect to share your experience with other tourists – most days, several boats stop at Pig Beach at the same time. If you want the pigs all to yourself, you'll have to pay for a private tour. Expect to be in or on the water pretty much all day.
The cheapest way to go swimming with pigs is to visit Rose Island which has swimming pigs and it is just a short 25 minute boat ride away from downtown Nassau.
A recent autopsy conducted on some of the pigs that died in Big Major Cay, the uninhabited Bahamas island made famous for its swimming pigs, has found that the beloved animals did not die from alcohol poisoning as initially thought, but rather from digesting sand.
Where are the swimming pigs? The Bahamas' beach pigs live on Big Major Cay, one of the over 365 islands in Exuma, a district of the Bahamas. Also known as Pig Beach (for obvious reasons), the island is about 82 miles southeast of Nassau, and about 50 miles northwest of George Town.
Only 25 minutes from Nassau/Paradise IslandMeet Babe, Wilbur, Pumba, Larry, Curly, Mo, Ginger, Pepper, and Spice, just some of our awesome Rose Island piggies!
The island takes its unofficial name from the fact that it is populated by a colony of feral pigs which live on the island. It has become a tourist attraction in modern times. The pigs are known in popular culture as the swimming pigs although other islands with swimming pigs exist in the Bahamas.
The activity is not without controversy. Critics see it as exploitative of the pigs. Some pigs have nipped at humans. Even some locals involved in the tours have scratched their heads at tourists' fascination.
BUT the price is about 400$ and there is a cheaper way from Nassau to get there: Take a plane! The Airport of Exuma is literally next to the port (5min walking distance!) and the price per person is about 150-200$ (there and back - leave in the morning and come back at night).