At the Westin Roco Ki, for example, jungle vegetation was retaking the grounds and debris littered the beach when visited by a Wall Street Journal reporter late last year.

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Fatboy Slim has previously played at Bondi Beach in Sydney, the Great Wall of China and in an igloo.

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Tales about bankers racing each other from Wall Street to the beach - with one enterprising weekender beating a helicopter-owning colleague by flying overhead in his Gulfstream business jet and parachuting out at the right moment - are thought to be mostly apocryphal.

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We outran a 15 ft. wall of water 300 yards from the beach...

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Pinned to the wall are 160 small color prints of anonymous people on a beach and 107 typed notecards asking variations on the same question: Has anyone seen their friend Al.

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