Barb Williams won’t argue that Camp Casey is a magical place.

In 1971 as a high school student, she met a fellow counselor from Seattle at Kiwanis Camp Casey.

She married him.

“We would have never met if it wasn’t for camp,” Williams said, referring to her husband Paul Williams.

Nowadays, Barb Williams is director of the camp for children with physical disabilities, sponsored by the North Seattle Kiwanis Club, and she and her husband have a summer home in Coupeville.

The camp concluded last week in Coupeville, but not without another magical moment for Williams and the large group of campers, counselors and club members on hand.

Williams worked with Jet City Skydiving of Oak Harbor to set up a surprise air drop to present the 2014 camp T-shirts.

Campers gathered outside in the early afternoon Aug. 1, believing they were going to take part in an outdoor activity unaware of Williams’ surprise. Counselors started a chant about T-shirts as a plane approached overhead, then unloaded three skydivers who landed on the grassy field with bags of T-shirts in tow.

The idea was a hit to the campers, who cheered as they spotted the skydivers high in the sky.

Kiwanis Club raised about $45,000 to put on the one-week camp, which has been taking place at Camp Casey for about 80 years and is the annual focus of the club’s fundraising efforts.

Normally, 60 counselors attend to work closely with the children.

The air drop was a first for Williams, in her fifth year as the club’s director.

“She is the heartbeat,” said David Little, president of the Lynnwood Kiwanis Club who came to volunteer his help.