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But you should try searching yourself; if you search for: Sri Lanka seaside people

you will get lots.    

Searching used to be dependent upon the words typed in the descriptions by posters themselves, but Flickr now uses image recognition technology to automatically add certain tags to photos (no doubt despairing of posters like me who never put any tags or descriptions on!).    "Seaside" and "people" are two of the tags which get put on automatically, so if you use these search terms you will get many more pictures than you used to.    The software often makes mistakes; and you are still subject to the bane of all Flickr searches, the overgrown schoolboy who writes a 1000-word essay on "what I did on my holidays" then attaches the essay to every one of the 300 photos from his Sri Lanka holiday, so that if the essay contains the words "seaside" and "people" anywhere in it, all of his pics come up in the search even if there is neither seaside nor people in most of them.     But its a big improvement on how things used to be.    You can substitute the names of other places in Sri Lanka (or indeed anywhere in the world) which have beaches; you can substitute "shore", "beach", "water" or "creek" for "seaside", and you can substitute "swim" or "sport" for "people", all of these words being automatic tags.    Don't be tempted to miss out the "people" or other auto-tag suggestive of human activity, unless you want thousands of pics of empty beaches.

And don't forget that you can enlarge Flickr pics in three different ways; cliick on the pic, click on the double-arrow top right, or (best, but most hassle) click on the downward pointing arrow bottom right, then "view all sizes", then the size you want at the top ("original" is biggest, but often so big its out of focus, or on its side).

Happy hunting.