Three teenage brothers who live in Lantau yesterday completed a 4,700km cycling odyssey across Australia's Outback for charity.
After setting out from Perth on July 8, the highlights of the trip for the Beaton brothers - Brendan, 19, Craig, 17, and David, 15 - included the scenery and the animals they saw, including whales, koalas, platypus and kangaroos.
They also remembered the low points, in particular one day in which they suffered five flat tyres on a 50km stretch cycling through a hailstorm from Euroa to Albury.
But their over-riding feeling after they rode into Sydney yesterday was of disbelief that their mission was finally over after years of planning and more than six weeks in the saddle.
'There's this blank spot where this dream [once] was . . . The whole dream of cycling across Australia has been the focus for so long,' Brendan said.
In their 'Cycling for the Millions' adventure, the Beaton brothers aimed to raise $3 million for charities Crossroads International and Future Hope after witnessing terrible poverty when they lived in China and India.