Extreme kayaker on 850-mile trip around South England will make pit stop in Reading

 

Simon Luck will join the Kennet and Avon Canal in Bristol and hopes to paddle through The Oracle on August 23 

An extreme kayaker who is paddling 850-miles solo around the coast of Southern and South West England will make an inland pit stop in Reading.

Carrying everything he needs on his 17-foot-long kayak, Simon Luck, from Westward Ho! in North Devon, will set off on his epic 30-day solo, unsupported journey from Falmouth, in Cornwall, next Friday.

And he will need every ounce of his namesake, as he believes this is the first time anyone has attempted this Herculean trip of a lifetime.

Travelling clockwise past Lands End and along the surf-hammered coasts of Cornwall and Devon, he will join the Kennet and Avon Canal at Bristol, aiming to reach Reading, and the “spectacular culture shock of ...more