Location
Indented Head is a bayside town on the western tip of the Bellarine Peninsula between Portarlington and St. Leonards, 30km east of Geelong city.

Description
Indented Head has a small residential community but is otherwise a popular bayside camping resort. The foreshore is broken into reserves and camping areas. The headland has a jetty, a boat ramp and a memorial to Flinders and Batman. Indented Head is a small community but in summer, it bustles with campers right along the foreshore.

History
Captain Matthew Flinders saw the headland of a peninsula from across the bay at Arthurs Seat in 1802, and named the entire Bellarine Peninsula Indented Head. After leaving Van Diemen's Land to find new land to settle and farm, John Batman landed near Indented Head. Later he sailed to Melbourne to sign his famous treaty for land with Aborigines there. That treaty included the lands around Geelong and the Bellarine Peninsula. Batman returned to the site of today's Indented Head township and there signed papers in exchange for the same land with local Wathaurong people - although it is unlikely they knew what they were signing.

After camping with Batman's party and being fed for some days, the tribe gathered in greater numbers and would have attacked the white prospectors but for the arrival of William Buckley - the escaped convict. It was Buckley's first contact with white men after 32 years living in the area with Wathaurong Aborigines. Land around the town of Indented Head was farmed for wheat for many years and other townships grew long before it. There was foreshore camping there before the 1920s, and by 1951 Indented Head was a small seaside resort with a store, a telegraph office, the Batman Park camping area and two private camping areas.

Despite superb views and access to the bay and the mouth of Port Phillip Bay, Indented Head has grown very little in the past 30 years.