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Wow! It’s Been a Great Few Days. You may think that the 4th of July was the biggest holiday during the past few days, but if you looked at Smugmug over the weekend, you know that the 4th of July took second place to Sunday’s Tribe Day. If a picture is worth a thousand words, [...]
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HOT FUN IN THE SUMMER SUN Thursday was a real summer day. It was more like a summer’s day in Alabama, but summer is summer. I don’t think anyone was complaining. The regular instructional activities took place during the day with a few modifications. For instance, the 2nd period riding class turned into a free-swim [...]
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A DAY OF KAMAJI FIRSTS Ed. Note: If you have Google Earth on your computer, “My Places” will take you many of the mentioned in this note. You can also get a wonderful look at good ol’ Camp Kamaji.) Monday was another day of cool, cloudy, drizzly weather so waking up to blue skies and [...]
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Well, the good news is that the early spring-like weather has given way to, well, summer. Shorts and t-shirts are the order of the day. Ye Directors like camp a lot when the sun is shining. This is just a short note to bring you up to date with a few details about life at [...]
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GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN Since last August, Ye Directors have been anticipating the opening of Kamaji’s 98th camping season. We spent all “off-season” working toward June 18, 2011. Even when winter weather made camp seem so far off, we imagined campers bounding off the buses on opening day, greeted by the warm summer [...]
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(Published on Kamaji’s Blog August 15, 2009 but worth putting it front-and-center again) I woke abruptly, with a catch in my throat as I realized the immediacy of the day, both for myself and for her. I have missed her. I am aching to put my arms around her after a month’s absence. I am [...]
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The campers and counselors enjoyed an absolutely spectacular camp day. Bright sunshine, crystal clear skies, light breezes and temps in the upper 70′s. Kamaji looked like a movie set today. Cabin 4 Porch 2, Cabin on the Hill, Nutshell Porch 3 and Cabin 1 Porch 2 all left on their respective canoe trips. For those [...]
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Recently someone not connected with camp asked me “Why did you choose a girls’ camp to own?” Truth is, Mike and I did not intentionally choose a girls’ camp over a boys’ camp. When we started out in 1978 to look for a summer camp to own and direct, we had no preference other than [...]
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Did you know that summer camp is an American invention – with camps becoming more and more widespread 90 to 100 years ago?? As discussed in a 2002 article written by Kay S. Hymowitz titled Notes on Camp, “Back then forward-thinking youth leaders worried about the influence of corrupt city life on the young and [...]
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Did you know that a four week Kamaji camper spends 648 hours at camp during a summertime? And an eight week camper spends 1320 hours at Kamaji? And during the off-season those same Kamaji campers spend about 1260 hours at school? Who would have ever guessed?? For better or worse, for most campers – regardless [...]
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