Along one particular stretch of the track from Kaa to Hukuntsi, dead trees were common. Was it the dryness, fires or borers that caused these trees to bend and buckle and bow their branches to the ground in defeat. Or perhaps a combination of all three? First a twiggy skirt of modesty surrounds the trunk, and then this falls as decay progresses. Eventually, the trunk topples too, coming to its resting place on the sandy soil.