Everyone comes to the Exumas for the pigs. Almost everyone sees them from a packed day boat, in the middle of the day, on a schedule. There is a better way.
Pig Beach sits on Big Major Cay, directly beside Staniel Cay. Our fleet lives here. That one fact changes the whole experience: while the day tours are still fueling up in Nassau, you are anchored off the beach with coffee in hand, watching the pigs wake up.
On your own charter the pigs are not an excursion. They are the neighbors. Stop by at sunrise, come back at sunset, or simply anchor overnight at Big Major and let them come say hello.
A high speed run from Nassau, twenty strangers, and about thirty minutes on the beach at the busiest hour of the day. Then the long ride home.
Wake up at Big Major. Swim with the pigs before breakfast, dive Thunderball Grotto at slack tide, and be at a sandbar by lunch. No schedule but the tide's.
The pigs are the headline, but they are day one. The Exuma Land & Sea Park, the grotto, the nurse sharks, and a hundred empty sandbars are all within a morning's sail of your anchorage.
From the same anchorage you can snorkel Thunderball Grotto, feed the nurse sharks at the Staniel Cay Yacht Club dock, and walk sandbars that stretch for a mile at low tide.
See how it all fits together in our 7-day Exuma itinerary, or read why we start at Staniel Cay instead of Nassau.
Pig Beach is on Big Major Cay, directly beside Staniel Cay in the central Exumas. Our yachts are based at Staniel Cay, so the pigs are a short hop from the dock, not a 50 mile passage.
Yes. Big Major is a well protected, easy anchorage. Anchor off the beach, swim or dinghy in, and stay as long as you like. On a crewed charter the captain handles everything. See The Fleet for bareboat and crewed options.
Early morning or late afternoon, when the day boats are gone. Sleeping aboard at Big Major means sunrise with the beach nearly to yourselves.
One of the best family stops in the Bahamas. Calm, shallow water. Keep fingers clear at feeding time and the kids will talk about it for years.
Charter from Staniel Cay and the most famous beach in the Bahamas is your first anchorage, not a bucket-list day trip.
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