Breathe Social Share Robert Strauss, the new owner of beloved Island mini-golf and ice cream institution, runs businesses that are all about having fun. (Photo dredit: Charity Robey) Not long after Nicole and Robert Strauss decided they would run the Island’s much-loved mini-golf and ice-cream establishment, The Whale’s Tale (3 Ram Island Road, Shelter Island, 631-749-1839), they went to look over the property with their adult children.