Marcus Eriksen steps onto a pier in Honolulu after he and Joel Paschal completed a three-month, 2,600-mile voyage from Long Beach, Ca., in a raft made of 15,000 plastic bottles and a Cessna 310 fuselage. BRITT YAP/Associated Press
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ASSOCIATED PRESS — Tanned, dirty and hungry, two men who spent three months crossing the Pacific on a raft made of plastic bottles to raise awareness of ocean debris finally stepped onto dry land.

"We made it," hollered Marcus Eriksen to a crowd of about two dozen gathered at Ala Wai Harbor on Wednesday. "Where's the food?"

Friends greeted Eriksen and fellow eco-mariner Joel Paschal with leis, fresh food and beer to celebrate the end of their 2,600-mile voyage on what they call the JUNK raft.

The pair left Long Beach, California, on June 1. Their 30-foot vessel had a deck of salvaged sailboat masts, six pontoons filled with 15,000 plastic bottles and a cabin made from the fuselage of a Cessna airplane.

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