Christopher Lockyer will paddle solo across the Bay of Fundy this summer. He hopes to raise $10,000 for cancer in the process.

The fundraiser is named “Kayak for Kenyon” after family friend Jon Kenyon of Fredericton who was diagnosed with Leukemia last fall and cancer this winter.

Jon and I had plans to paddle the Shubie and it never happened,” says Lockyer. “I don’t know if it’s going to happen now.” Lockyer is sea kayak instructor with Paddle Canada and the British Canoe Union, an Outward Bound instructor and professional guide.

Lockyer plans to spend the whole day on the water start from Saint John at the end of the ebb tide and hopes to reach the bandstand by the Digby Information Centre around nightfall on Sept. 3, 2007.

“I’ve been playing it through in my mind what my emotions are going to be when I see the Gut, when I get to the ferry terminal, the wharf. I imagine all kinds of emotions.

“Half way across sitting out there all by myself, I imagine I’ll be pretty lonely and tired and suffering. But what does it mean for me to suffer for a few hours when some people with cancer go through years of suffering?”

More info and ways to help at committed2thecore.com/k4k.html

All pictures were taken by Jonathon Riley