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Four people lying on top of each other on a beach wearing only swimmers covering their bottoms.

Men and women kneeling, wearing only bathers on their bottoms and looking out onto a beach.

Two bikini-clad women lounge on a man lying on the beach. There is a man standing up with a hat covering his groin.

"It was specifically aimed at singles and specifically aimed at the sort of resort you could go to for a bit of sex."

A man hugs a topless women at the beach. They are smiling.

A postcard of people in their togs on a sandy white beach. They are leaning on one another.

"There were shots of groups of young singles on a beach, doing everything from pulling bathers off the boys to lying on top of each other and forming a 'Keppel sandwich' to leaping over men who are sunbaking."

Men and women lying on top of each other on a beach.

A woman in a bikini leaping over two men lying down on a beach.

"Everybody in the country had heard of it … at one point it was ranked in the top five island party destinations in the world,"
Mr Christie said.

A compilation of beach photos with models.

"Couples met each other, fell in love and then ended up getting married and those kids have grown up in Yeppoon,"
he said.

Young people riding an inflatable banana in the ocean at sunset.

"We've gone from a 'Get Wrecked' [slogan] in the 80s and 90s to a 'Get Rested' in current time,"
Ms Carroll said.

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