I was out on the rocks by the sea at Rooiels this afternoon taking some photos when I saw the strangest thing. I spotted a cockroach on a rock near my feet and when I looked at the rocks a little further away, they were crawling with hundreds, if not thousands of small cockroaches. The strange thing is that most of them were moving in the same direction, forming a column that swarmed over the rocks with a definite sense of purpose. I have never seen anything like this before. I wonder what they were doing? Migrating perhaps or heading towards a food source? I didn't smell anything that would indicate a dead creature nearby but there was a fair amount of decomposing kelp between the rocks there. This is what they looked like.

I am craniac, also known as Steve Crane, a Scottish born, South African software developer. I live in Strand, near Cape Town with my wife, two teenaged sons, two dogs and two cats.

As mentioned I am a software developer and have been for the past twenty years. I currently write software for Windows using Visual Basic and C#. At home I prefer to run Linux on my computer, which I use for processing the results of one of my other interests, namely photography.

I also like to read and am very interested in aircraft, an interest I combine with my photographic one whenever there is an airshow nearby, but this is unfortunately only once or twice per year.