Bahamas
zooillogix | December 22, 2008From ABC4.com: A shark managed to jump out of its aquarium and onto a water slide at a hotel swimming pool used by guests. No one was in the pool at the time. The female reef shark leapt over the one foot high barrier and slid down the slide known as the Leap of Faith at the Atlantis resort in the Bahamas.
Slide goes in the water?
You go in the water.
Shark's in the water.
Sadly the pool chlorine and the shark didn't mix and the reef shark died shortly thereafter... but I can only hope that when it is my time to go, it is via a waterslide.
cwilcox | October 15, 2008I like to pride myself on knowing a lot about the marine realm, graduating with a degree in Marine Science and all. But this, I didn't know: It is legal to kill sea turtles in the Bahamas.
All seven species of sea turtle are endangered ("threatened" or worse on the IUCN red list), with three critically endangered. Five of the seven species, including the critically endangered leatherback and hawksbill turtles, are found within the waters of the Bahamas, where they are legally fished.
Oceana, the international ocean conservation group, are making a push to try and prohibit the fishing of…
bleimanb | October 2, 2007Big Major Cay, an island in the Exuma Chain of the Bahamas is home to some very determined pigs. There are various theories about the origins of these once domestic pigs, but whether abandoned there by a farmer or dumped overboard during a storm, there they remain, alone in piggy paradise.
The pigs claim to fame stems from their enthusiasm for handouts. While they prefer humans to disembark and feed them on the beach, the impatient pigs will trudge into the water and swim out to your vessel if you wait a few minutes.
They are a big hit with tourists and children. There are also rumors that…