JAMIE LAKE: Trail Boss
Jamie loves the weather and the pace of life here in Nicaragua, and is the official trail boss here at Rancho Chilamate.
As a father to four grown children, he aspired to create a place where they would visit often and share in the adventure. With over 25 years of construction management experience in Canada, it was a natural for Jamie to design and build the main Hacienda and Guest House. It was quite the initiation working with almost no Spanish and an entire crew with no English. Sourcing and working within the limitations of locally produced materials and building techniques was a challenge but proved to be very rewarding as the project unfolded.
One of Jamie’s dreams is to be a blacksmith so with the anvil in place and forge now fired his art and tool-making projects have begun.
BLUE VAN DOORNINCK: Photographer
Blue’s love for travel, people, food and cultural differences has brought her to visit and embrace many places including Africa, Asia, Europe, North and Central America and the Caribbean. She calls Nicaragua home for now and it feels good.
With over twenty years experience in the tourism industry in Vancouver, she enjoyed the successes of several entrepreneurial ventures, but admittedly embraces this quieter, less stressful lifestyle. Hosting friends and large groups comes naturally to Blue – a skill that was well honed at the horse ranch she and her husband owned for nearly 15 years in the interior of B.C., Canada.
Her biggest passion is for photography and plans to continue to use her photos to share, educate and communicate. (OUT OF THE BLUE PHOTOGRAPHY PORTFOLIO) She is known in these parts as Azul (Spanish for Blue) and enjoys the ‘exotic sound of that’.