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Dorim

Dorim has always been a creative person. A Jack of many trades, he is a master of some. He followed a career as an industrial millwright for more than 20 years and was known by his colleagues as a man who could “get you out of a jam”.

His industrious mindset does not limit him to mechanical applications, however. He has quite an eye for old buildings, boats, and furniture that needs his tender loving care. From the shacks he built as a boy to the refurbishing job he did on his first sailboat, Dorim has a gifted hand. He can create quite the garden as well.

He has celebrated many accomplishments during his career as a millwright and through his personal ventures, but Dorim will mostly tell you that his greatest passion is helping those in need. To that end, he has taken many months away from his career over the years to travel to countries in need. He has spent many tenures in developing countries delivering and installing pumps in impoverished communities so that the people there could have access to safe drinking water. Never all business, Dorim was always accompanied by “Dori-the-Red’s Tickle Trunk”. Once he had a minute to spare, he would don his outfit and emerge as Dori-the-Red, the clown. Riding his unicycle, he would tie balloons for the children in the community and bring joy and laughter to those around him.

Dorim does not appreciate “idle hands” and does whatever he can to make sure he is busy all the time. If he is not working he’ll be long gone, doing “something or other”.


 
 
Now that he has traded his industrial career to operate Inn On The Sea, he is developing his new career as a tinkerer. How long he’ll tinker is anybody’s guess – he has a yearning to sail his boat into the sunset – and we’re pretty sure he will.
 
 
Martine

More than twenty years ago Martine, who was born and raised in the south of France, chose Canada as her home. Having lived for many years in Ontario, she then chose to join her partner Dorim on his journey to the part of Canada where he was born and raised, the Southwest Coast of Newfoundland.

A private person, Martine loves to play her guitar and relax with a good book. She also likes to relax with a cup of tea while she takes in the beautiful scenery and calm atmosphere of her adoptive home.

Martine has a natural talent for making her physical surroundings comfortable and inviting. She is also “quite the cook” and makes some of the best bread you will ever hope to sample. Martine likes to trek in over the hills when she can to pick the berries that grow there. She then bakes them into delicious cakes and desserts – they are to die for! Guests of Rocky Island Tours are sure to feel Martine’s influence in their accommodations and they will most certainly enjoy her food.

 

 



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