Fencing Indented Head

What Sand and Bay Wind Mean for an Indented Head Fence

Indented Head is a quiet bayside hamlet on the north-eastern corner of the Bellarine, and two things shape how a fence should be built here. The soil is sandy and free-draining, good for the garden and hard on fences: timber posts bedded in dry-mix tend to loosen and lean within a few seasons, because sand doesn't hold a footing the way Geelong's clay does. And the town faces east across Port Phillip, so blocks near the foreshore take whatever wind and salt come in off the water, often without a built-up street around them for shelter.

So our usual recommendation here is a paling fence on galvanised steel posts. Set in properly poured concrete, steel posts grip the footing, stay plumb in soft soil, don't rot below ground and shrug off the salt. The framing photo on this page is one of ours: galvanised posts and timber rails going up on an Indented Head boundary. A timber plinth board along the bottom keeps the palings clear of damp sand, and the rails are screwed, never nailed, so nothing works loose in the wind. Colorbond with galvanised fittings is the other strong option for a low-maintenance boundary, and we still build all-timber paling fences where the soil and position allow.

A lot of our work in Indented Head is for holiday-home and weekender owners who aren't on site day to day. Based just up the road in Drysdale — about 20 minutes away — we can quote, access the property, manage materials and run the whole job while keeping you updated by phone and photos. Whether it's a new boundary on a fresh block, a steel-post upgrade on an existing fence, or a repair after a big blow off the bay, we build it to handle exactly what Indented Head throws at it.