Distance: 2.3 km (1.0 DOC hours) - Benched track - Easy terrain
Altitude: 0m to 320m. Gain: 45m. Loss: 365m . Gradient: 11 deg (Moderate)
Skills:

Benched track (3/9)
Benched, maintained, marked tramping track or pack-track

Primary, mapped (1/5)
Formal route, on maps, principal access to hut or along range / catchment

Moderate (difficulty: 3/5)
Occasional moderate climbs

Easy (difficulty: 1/5)
Grass / prepared surface

None (difficulty: 1/7)
No alpine skills required

None (difficulty: 1/6)
No unbridged river crossings

None (difficulty: 1/7)
No alpine skills required

From the signposted junction with the Main Ridge Track, Ferry Rd Track starts to drop steadily towards Days Bay. The track is broad, well cut and easy to follow, but moderately steep in places.

Soon the mature bush of the ridgeline is left, and you descend through first tall regenerating scrub, and then gorse and low scrub. The lower vegetation offers great views over the Wellington Harbour, and the coastline to Eastbourne.

After making a few short zigzags, the track emerges into houses at the end of Ferry Road. There is a little parking here - but more at the sea shore below. Following Ferry Road through a couple of switchbacks it's another couple of hundred meters to the coast. Days Bay wharf is 200m to the south (opposite a cafe and ice cream shop!) and has ferries to Wellington, on which dogs are permitted on a leash.

Note: Described in the reverse direction to your journey

From the Days Bay wharf, head 200m north along the shoreline road to Ferry Road at the north end of the bay. This climbs through a couple of switchbacks before ending after a coupke of hundred meters. There's a little parking here, but more down by the sea.

The signposted track climbs initially through gorse and low scrub, before entering taller, more mature stuff as it nears the ridgeline. The climb is steady, and moderately steep - though on a good benched track. Shortly before the summit you enter mature bush and leave behind the marvelous views of the harbour and coastline.

At the summit, the junction with the main ridge track is signposted.