PARENTS: 8 Tips for Choosing the Best Summer Camp For Your Daughter
Are you ready to give your daughter a summer camp experience she'll never forget? One of our greatest challenges as parents is providing opportunities for "kids to be kids", gain independence and confidence, while also being safe. Summer camp is the best place to...
Donate To Camp For All Kids
Dear Kamaji Alum, I don’t know about you, but one of the things that has struck me this particular holiday season, somehow more than before, is while things continue to be not totally normal, I find myself more and more grateful and appreciative for the little things...
Musings from Alumna, Andrea Cuttler
As this goes on, my two friends and I – visitors for the weekend and longtime Kamaji campers and counselors ourselves – sit a few tables away, watching the madness ensue. Almost immediately, and quite inexplicably, all three of us have the exact same reaction: We begin to weep.
And then, as we realize we’ve all had this visceral response to the scene before us, we begin to laugh.
#KamajiCourage
“Kamaji is magical”. How many times have you heard this? How many times have you SAID this? How many times have you thought this to yourself? It is, it is truly magical. But now try to explain why. It’s hard!! Because for us Kamaji girls, it just IS. Maybe it is the...
Kamaji Celebrates Courage
The following is a post written by our longtime camper and counselor, Jessica Kubert, who graduates from high school this year and is off to college. But first, she'll spend another summer at Kamaji as a cabin counselor and fishing instructor! Fourth grade was the...
Summer Notes from Kamaji
Kamaji’s 98th Summer of Firsts Kamaji’s is one old camp. As a matter of fact, we’ll be celebrating our 100th season in 2013. Given that history, you might assume that not much changes from year to year. Well, you’d be wrong — really wrong. You might even say that 2011...
From the sunny shores of Wolf Lake
Hello from the sunny shores of Wolf Lake. It’s the fourth full day of camp and it’s full steam ahead. Kamaji’s instructional activity program began in earnest yesterday; today the first four Wilderness canoeists left camp. It feels like we’ve been planning for this...
18 Things Everyone Should Start Making Time for Again: All Can Be Accomplished by a Summer at Camp
There was an article posted recently by Thought Catalog entitled 18 Things Everyone Should Start Making Time for Again (by Brianna Wiest). Immediately I was taken aback by how many of these points relate directly to what we do at camp! And now, of course, I have to...
18 Things Everyone Should Start Making Time for Again: All Can Be Accomplished by a Summer at Camp
Skills, Activities, Moments, Practices…things that are lost in the frenzy of life today can be captured back by a summer a camp!
Summer Notes from Kamaji — August 8, 2011
Kamaji’s 98th Summer of Firsts Kamaji’s is one old camp. As a matter of fact, we’ll be celebrating our 100th season in 2013. Given that history, you might assume that not much changes from year to year. Well, you’d be wrong — really wrong. You might even say that...