Eastern View was a remote coastal area prior to the construction of the Great Ocean Road , which was opened to Eastern View , albeit in the form of a narrow gravel track , in March 1922 . Only four houses were located in the area in 1924 ; a fifth was later extended and granted a liquor license as the Eastern View Hotel in 1927 . The hotel owners later leased land on the ocean side of the Great Ocean Road and built a tennis court . The Eastern View Hotel was a popular tourist destination for many years , but closed in 1957 . The Great Ocean Road Trust developed a nine-hole golf course at Eastern View in 1936 . It closed at the beginning of World War II , and did not reopen . Both the former hotel building and the remnants of the golf course were destroyed in the Ash Wednesday bushfires in 1983
Ash Wednesday bushfires
Ash Wednesday bushfires
Eastern View, Victoria