What are you most excited about in your new role this season?
Mark: Working with my team, some are returning, some are new to the property. Olivia and I have been able to gather some great people who have so much to bring to the table in different ways, I’m excited to see what that’s going to look like.
Olivia: My guru once reminded me, ‘to have a learning attitude means that everyone is your teacher’. Mark and I consider ourselves super lucky to be in the company of such talented, inquisitive, passionate, dedicated and kind people across all departments. I am most privileged and excited to learn from them and my surroundings. I have a strong feeling with this team that this 2022 season at Clayoquot is going to be the best one yet. I’m also excited to see my very first orca this summer! Yay! It’s gonna happen… I can feel it.
What do you like to do when you’re not working?
Mark: Now I’m in the mode of discovery and reacquainting myself with things that engage me. Picking up some old colouring books, I just coloured a picture of Danny Devito as Pikachu. I’m quite into Untitled Goose Game on my Switch and I have a stack of books I am slowly working my way through. Just recently I’ve taken on the task of prepping the garden at Clayoquot for the season. Interwoven through that is just taking care of myself mentally and physically, do I succeed on a daily basis? No, but do I try to be more aware of it… sometimes.
Olivia: These days, nothing too exciting I’m afraid. Ha! Just doing activities one might consider tranquil and calming, or boring! I like to take long walks along MacAulay Point Park which is one block from our place in Victoria, BC. I’ve been reading bios of people I find cool and interesting. Currently, I’m reading Roy Choi’s Memoir along with ‘Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsberg’. I’ve also been embracing my 15-year-old self again and playing a lot of video games! Hadouken!