Caroline Boulom, Blue Mountains Stargazing Co-Founder, Managing Director—and Dimitri’s fiancée, is passionate about creating joyful moments for their guests. She is in charge of the Ground Operations: from PR, digital marketing, customer service to fostering exciting partnerships with local businesses, and creating bespoke collab events that sparkle stars in their guests eyes.

Caroline’s past experience include digital marketing roles in Paris and Sydney, at Yahoo, Nine Entertainment, Wotif; various roles at Alliance Française de Sydney; Western Sydney University; 1 Million Women, an environmental Non-For-Profit organization and charity; and CEO of Rewildin, an eco-tourism startup with her partner-in-crime Dimitri for a few years.

Dr Dimitri Douchin grew up in the suburb of Paris. At age 8, he declared “I want to be an astrophysicist”. He studied Physics and Fundamental Physics in Paris. In 2011, Dimitri flew to Sydney to start his PhD in Astronomy & Astrophysics which he received in 2014.

In parallel to his research, Dimitri realised his enthusiasm for sharing his passion for science and astronomy. After a first experience as a guide at University of Canterbury Mount John Observatory in Lake Tekapo, New Zealand, Dimitri became an astronomy guide at Macquarie University, then at Sydney Observatory and finally at the luxury Emirates One & Only Wolgan Valley as Astronomy & Ecology guide, totalling more than 10 years of experience as a guide.

After he graduated, Dimitri took a break from Astronomy, met Caroline and lived a nomadic van life together. After running Rewildin, he started his coaching business for men.

Blue Mountains Stargazing was born in July 2020 in the midst of the pandemic. Nowadays, Dimitri is reconnecting to Astronomy under the angle of Cultural Astronomy as an Adjunct Fellow at Western Sydney University, collaborating with local Aborginal communities to recover any archaeological and astronomical heritage in the mountains. A fairly new science at the intersection of Astronomy, Archaeology and Anthropology, Cultural Astronomy is dedicated to understanding how various cultures observe, understand and use Astronomy, and how these cultures interconnect around the common Heritage to every human on Earth: the Night Sky.

When he’s not looking up at the Stars, Dimitri cultivates his passions for martial arts, personal development, permaculture, survival and simple living.