Filmed & Edited By Patrick Horton
© 2018 Horton Productions
Filmed with the iPhone X/FiLMiC Pro & GoPro Hero 6 in 4K
Pig Beach (Big Major) is an uninhabited island (or cay) located in Exuma, the Bahamas. The island takes its unofficial name from the fact that it is populated by a colony of feral pigs that live on the island and in the surrounding shallows.
The pigs are said to have been dropped off on Big Major Cay by a group of sailors who wanted to come back and cook them. The sailors, though, never returned; the pigs survived on excess food dumped from passing ships. One other legend has it that the pigs were survivors of a shipwreck and managed to swim to shore...