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Mission Beach was put on the national map in the 1960's when our then Prime Minister Harold Holt had his holidays at Bingle Bay. The whole region of Mission Beach, Clump Point and Bingle Bay is rain forest by the sea.

Harold Holt was said to have a red phone, a hot line to Canberra installed.

I was shocked to be in town and witness his former holiday residence being quietly demolished.

Harold Holt was an active spear fisherman and free diver. He vanished in Victoria in the sea he loved, December 1967 while still in office as Prime Minister.