Robbie Waller's Shaw Story

BETWEEN second and third grade, I went to a camp on Shaw Island through MLC. For a week we played and hiked around on the island in the Puget Sound. We were sometimes guided by counselors but most of the time we were trusted to do what we wanted to. I have so many good memories of that time that I can’t write them all down. I saw whales and orcas and giant jellyfish for the first time in my life. And I believe that was the first time I ever rowed and rode in a boat.

I went to the Shaw Island camp with MLC again after third grade with my friend Michael Carroll. Being a year older than the first time, and knowing the island, I had even more fun and really got into studying nature. I remember finding a dead frog on the side of the road, scooping it up and taking it back to the camp, and using nine-volt batteries and some wires to try to shock it back to life, like Frankenstein’s monster.

— Robbie Waller, 2025

Campers wave to passing boat.

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