This is a windswept, exposed spot, and not recommended in howling southerlies!
This end of View Road, popularly known as View Road South although not designated as such, is "No Exit". For many years, Kae Miller tended to the trees and plants in this area, and is commemorated along with Mary Thompson, with plaques on a rock, just up the hill from a metal seat. Kae’s Cottage, named Alice Krebs Lodge, (named after a holocaust survivor) is available for hire as a “quiet place” for individuals or groups. The CO has contact details if need be.
Cook Strait, or Raukawa Moana in Maori, is one of the most treacherous shipping lanes in the world, and was the site of New Zealand's most recent major shipwreck, the foundering of the Lyttelton - Wellington ferry, the TEV Wahine, on 10 April 1968. Fifty three passengers perished. Barretts Reef, which the Wahine struck, is at the entrance to Wellington harbour, just east of the runway of Wellington International Airport.