East Beach - the most popular place of recreation for residents and visitors to Geelong, located on the shores of the Gulf of Corio Bay. The beach was equipped with even in the 1930s in the Art Deco style, and today there is a special children's swimming pool, gazebo, pavilion with changing rooms. The waters of the Gulf are protected from sharks. A number of houses built along the beach in the Art Deco style, on the list of national heritage of the Victorian era.

However, this place is not always attracts crowds of tourists. At the beginning of the base of Geelong, Eastern Beach area this was a kind of "thorn in the side" of the city, with its steep coastal rocks, stretching from the northern border of the city to the bay. Only in 1914 there was the first plan of upgrading these places. It was assumed that there will be built a breakwater length of 1, 6 km coastal strip of land reclamation carried out, and the rocks along the beach will be smoothed. The future plans included the construction of a small house on the beach, which, however, was made in the form of a pergola.

Work on the landscaping began in 1927 with the construction of concrete stairs, embankments and locker rooms. Protected by sharks swimming place an area of ​​3, 5 hectares and up to 10 thousand people, and the children's pool were built in 1939. All this cost the city $ 80 million.

However, in the 1960s, Eastern Beach, located in the city began to lose its appeal as residents of Geelong, mostly obzavedshiysya cars, began to prefer relaxing on the town ocean beaches. Decades of neglect have led to a state of the beach unusable. Only in 1993 the situation began to change when the Geelong City Council announced plans for the restoration of the territory. In the first place it was rebuilt fence protecting the waters of the bay from sharks. Then restored the gazebo, a children's pool and locker rooms. Upstairs gazebo restaurant was opened. The revival of the Eastern Beach was part of a larger project for the improvement of the Geelong waterfront, which continues to this day.