Burgess Meredith and Christopher Columbus on Little Cayman

On the remote North Coast of Little Cayman, two unlikely historical figures have ties to the island. Take a look...

Going up the North Coast Road, the blacktop ends at Olivine Kirk Road which straddles Little Cayman. About 3 miles up the gravel portion of North Coast, there is a tiny cottage with a warning sign out front: NO TRESPASSING. BURGESS MEREDITH. Sometime around 1960, the actor built his little house in this particularly beautiful part of the North Coast. Mr. Meredith could be seen on Little Cayman when he was "getting away", right up until his death in the mid-1990's.
Five hundred years ago, another historical giant found his way to Little Cayman. In 1503, on his last trip to the New World, Christopher Columbus made landfall at beautiful Snipe Point at the end of the North Coast Road about 4 miles from Mr. Meredith's home. Until his death, Columbus thought he had sailed to India and that the islands where he landed were located in Asia rather than in what we now call the "West Indies" in the beautiful Caribbean Sea.
It is said on Little Cayman that both of these gentlemen made landfall here to "dry out", each in their own way.