{"id":1497,"date":"2013-01-28T17:11:44","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T17:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/?p=1497"},"modified":"2013-01-28T17:11:44","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T17:11:44","slug":"the-residents-of-this-island-are-total-porkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/?p=1497","title":{"rendered":"The residents of this island are total porkers!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Monday and we are still enjoying our time here in Big Major Spot. \u00a0Yesterday Brenda and I had an easy day of walking on the beach and wading in shallow water looking for shells. \u00a0While it’s still windy at 20-25 most days,(did someone say that the Bahamas are windy in January?)we enjoyed doing our beach combing on a windward shore, out of the wind. \u00a0Given the great popularity of this anchorage(there are over 50 boats in here and room for another 25-50, I expect)the beaches are pretty well picked over. \u00a0In spite of that we still found some nice little shells. \u00a0We also came upon a great starfish that was compliant and agreed to pose for a photo as long as we returned him to the water after the shoot. \u00a0Yes, this color is true, he\/she was a brilliant red. \u00a0Amazing.<\/p>\n

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We also visited with some of the local residents who were wading out into the water hoping for a treat. \u00a0These pigs are a local attraction and are always happy to visit with anyone offering handouts. \u00a0These guys are really big, weighing several hundred pounds at least, and certainly couldn’t be convincing stand-ins for the three little pigs that we all know and love.<\/p>\n

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\nThe white one had a particularly cute face, actually the other two were down right ugly, perhaps even pigish, and oinked in a pathetic way when we didn’t come through with the requested offering. \u00a0I shudder at the thought of what might happen if one of these porkers tried to climb into the dink in their quest for handouts. \u00a0I felt badly that I didn’t come through yesterday so I’ll head back today with some veggies today.<\/p>\n

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\nWhen we returned from the beach to Pandora yesterday I spied a ray swimming slowly along the bottom under the boat. \u00a0I quickly donned my fins and mask and jumped in with my video camera in hand. \u00a0I was able to follow him for several hundred feet and got some great shots. \u00a0Unfortunately, the videos will have to wait till we have big bandwidth so I can load them up. \u00a0The videos are really fun.<\/p>\n

Today we plan to visit Thunderball Cave for some snorkeling with some friends. \u00a0I can’t wait.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday we plan to head south a short distance, about 5 miles, to Black Point Settlement, one of the larger settlements, a relative term, I am told, in the Exuma chain. \u00a0After that we hope to visit Little Farmer’s Cay, a bit further south, for the weekend festival that begins on Friday. \u00a0This is one of the best events of the winter season and features racing on Bahamas sloops, the local traditional sailing craft as well as special events ashore. \u00a0We also hope to get our hands on a simcard for the i-pad so that we can use BATELCO, the local phone company,(Bahamas Telephone Company, Get it?)for getting e-mail and posting to our blogs. That will be a lot easier than using the SSB and running the posts through our son Christopher who has been happily handling this for us when we are out of range of wifi.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, this morning I contacted the Little Farmer’s Yacht Club to reserve a mooring for the festival. \u00a0I was successful in securing one of only four left. \u00a0Lucky me!!! \u00a0My call on the radio set off an avalanche of mooring requests and within ten minutes they were all booked. \u00a0I guess that “the early bird catches the worm”. \u00a0Between that and the three little pigs thing, I guess I have tortured the nursery rhyme thing enough for one post.<\/p>\n

Perhaps I will quit while I am ahead before I lapse into another rhyme. \u00a0So for now, all I can say is that this little piggy has no interest in running all the way home as I am just having too much fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s Monday and we are still enjoying our time here in Big Major Spot. \u00a0Yesterday Brenda and I had an easy day of walking on the beach and wading in shallow water looking for shells. \u00a0While it’s still windy at 20-25 most days,(did someone say that the Bahamas are windy in January?)we enjoyed doing our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_s2mail":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1497"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1502,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497\/revisions\/1502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}