Ananova:

Adventurer Jason Lewis has completed a unique trans-Pacific pedal boat voyage from the United States to Australia - and celebrated with a cold beer.

The 32-year-old from Bridport, Dorset, and 42-year-old teacher April Abril pedalled the 26ft craft Moksha into Port Douglas on the Queensland coast.

"We had a great reception on the final run in, with every boat which passed us shouting, waving, honking horns and lobbing beers at the boat," said Jason.

He made landfall with April, from Rye, Colorado, who rejoined the Moksha for the last eight or nine miles of the 1,100 mile voyage from Tulagi in the Solomon Islands.

She had been transferred off Moksha for a medical check-up once the craft had been towed through the Great Barrier Reef.

With no charts for the area, the pair accepted an 11-mile tow through the treacherous reef following a week of adverse tides, huge seas and 25 knot winds which blew the expedition 130 miles north of its Cairns target.

Jason said from Port Douglas: "It is so great to be off the boat, but it is only just sinking in what has been achieved. It is a huge deal - we have just crossed the biggest ocean in the world by human power."

The trans-Pacific voyage from the United States to Australia is part of Jason's 35,000-mile, human-powered circumnavigation, which began in London six years ago.

But now the expedition is in desperate financial straits and Jason says he hopes the Pacific crossing will generate sponsorship.

Jason plans to cycle and roller blade across Australia before heading back towards Europe across Asia - another three or four years of travelling before he returns to Greenwich.