Bahamas: Pig Beach

The typical foods in the Bahamas are the sea foods, because of the location. There is a shell that is called “konk” and it’s a big mollusk. There is a popular lobster, one of the several species of lobsters that can be caught in the Bahamas beaches. The sea foods are the most common on the Bahamas.

 

 

 

 

 

        The Bahamas it’s an island country, with more than 3000 islands, including the pig beach or pig island. The pig beach it’s an uninhabited island located in Exuma the Bahamas, and known for being populated by many swimming feral pigs.
It has several legends that explain how the pigs got there: are said that the pigs 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, while another claims that the pigs had escaped from a nearby islet. Others suggest that the pigs were part of a business scheme to attract tourists to the Bahamas. The pigs are now fed by locals and tourists.

 

 Junkanoo is the most popular music rhythm in Bahamas. It's like a street carnival that happens on December 26 and in the celebrations for New year on January 1. This traditional celebration was invented by an african slave known by John Canoe. They had a period free of work that they used to celebrate this special dates.
 The parades are characterised by costumes made of crepe paper and powerful rhythms played in drums made of goat skin and cow bells. Bahamas music is variety, it includes calypso, trinidade and tobago and jamaican reggae.




 Lucayan indians were the first people to populate Bahamas before de arrival of Cristóvão Colombo in 1492, their clothes were just loincloths. The clothes were found in lost and sailed ships. When piracy was baned and the islands turned independent, the Bahamas clothes changed to dresses, sarongs, cargo pants and shorts that can be seen nowadays too. Fashion Batik is a factory that makes patterns representing the island shapes constrasting sand and water colors.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    

As known as Lucayas archipelago, was habited for a long time by the Arauaques until the arrival of Cristóvão Colombo in 1492. From the XVI century, the Bahamas has been inhabitated by English People after being taken of Spanish People. In 1717, the Bahamas turned into a english colony. In 1973. they declared their Independence.

Gabriela, Marta e Natasha- 2C