Travel Journal: Bahamas

My husband and I recently returned from a 2-week vacation in the Bahamas. We rented a beach cottage on Staniel Cay which is one of 365 small islands that form a long chain called The Exumas. If you are like me and prefer to stay as far away from the big resort scene as possible, you should really check out these islands if you can! We cooked our own meals (with a very scarce selection of groceries available) but the tradeoff is being surrounded by hundreds of deserted islands and beaches yours to explore, in the most beautiful water I have ever seen. Fine by me all there is to do is read, swim, snorkel, take the boat out… Can you believe the swimming pigs!? Word has it they were introduced to the island by passing sailors who thought they would become a food source. (Big Major Cay- also deserted) Those sailors never returned and now these porkers thrive off passing boaters that stop in for a swim and feed them their leftover food scraps. They swam out to our boat to greet us and followed us around as long as we kept feeding them! I should add that the the shark I am swimming after is a friendly nurse shark!