Curiously Funny

"Snnnooort" it said opening its mouth to allow me to toss in the onion skin. Two large pigs splashed their way after a particularly succulent looking bit of onion. We were feeding this island's famous swimming pigs from our dinghy

We had our box of food scraps that we normally toss over board when we get way offshore. Jack and Daddy, definitely not I, leapt into the knee deep water and walked onto the beach and fed the greedy pigs the last few bits of onion and grapefruit peels. There was lots of snorting.

Mama and I took pictures from the partially beached dinghy while Jack and Daddy took them from ashore.

 A particularly funny moment was Jack trying to take a selfie with a pig.

It came out pretty well! There were four large sows and a baby that only rarely came out of the trees. Four, including the baby, were brown with dark spots while the other was pink. The hide was also very hairy. When a pig opened its mouth, you could see the two rows of crusher teeth.

Each one definitely did have a big snout and nose.

 

Towards the end of our visit, they would stick their nose an inch or two into the sand and sit right down for a nap.

For some strange reason, the pigs were just inexplicably hilarious. They make me laugh just thinking about their greedy lumbering walk.

This one tried to climb into the dinghy for the last couple of onion peel scraps. - Porter