Boyle Village to Arthurs Pass

After Hamner Springs we hitched back to Boyle Village and started our next leg to Arthurs Pass. We got a ride from a lovely local who took us all the way to Windy Point where our next leg started. He was a retired gentleman who just enjoyed our company and went out of his way to help us. Like I have said previously NZers are a great bunch of generous friendly people.
We hiked from Windy Point to Hope Kiwi Hut the first day. We are managing to now regularly do 20 to 30km a day depending on terrain. We are coping with the climbs better - just getting fitter I guess.
The next day was 31 km to No 3 hut up the Huronui Valley then the next was over  Harper's Pass to the Kiwi Hut.  Sandflies still a major pain.! How to send Wayno insane lol.
After that we did an awful long hard day from Kiwi Hut down the valley and then up Goat Pass to Goat Pass Hut. The tramp up to Goat Pass is the same as the Coast to Coast run leg and involves multiple river crossings. Luckily there had been no rain and the crossings were not too bad but after 12 hours on the trail and a climb for the last four hours we were pretty shattered at the end. That wa yesterday.
Last night while up at Goat Pass Hut the rain came in so this morning we were up and on the trail early as we still had more river crossings to do and didn't want to get stuck by high rivers. We got through OK and made it to Arthurs Pass where we are having luxury with meal showers doing washing and real sheets on our bed.
I have to say that this last section has been hard for both of us. I think we are just both mentally and physically tired.
Not many pictures taken this section sorry.  Will get out camera more next leg.
Tomorrow we are off to start Arthurs Pass to Tekapo section which will take about a week.