Sail into turquoise water and hidden blue holes, where pirate history and swimming pigs make the Bahamas one of the most surprising island chains on Earth.
The Bahamas is made up of about 700 islands and over 2,000 tiny cays, but people only live on around 30 of them.
Bahamian water looks impossibly turquoise because the shallow banks are made of bright white sand that reflects sunlight back up through the clear water.
On Big Major Cay, wild pigs actually swim out to greet boats in the water — nobody is completely sure how they first got there.
Dean's Blue Hole plunges over 200 meters straight down, making it one of the deepest known blue holes on Earth.
In the early 1700s, Nassau was a real pirate haven, home to famous pirates like Blackbeard before the British Navy took back control.
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