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TRURO, NOVA SCOTIA – After spending an afternoon with his father driving out to witness a tidal bore—a phenomenon that resembles a miniature tidal wave—local teen Derek Hanswicks described the experience as “more of a total bore.”
“Nothing really happened,” said a visibly frustrated Hanswicks, the son of Galt Hanswicks, a respected geology professor at Dalhousie University. “It’s just water. Who cares about this stuff anyway?”
“It was so noisy I could barely hear my iPod,” he added. “This is worse than that time we stayed up all night waiting for a meteor shower. We only saw one speck, and I’m pretty sure it was a moth.”
During the ride home, the elder Hanswicks was too distraught by his failed attempt at bonding with his only son that he didn’t have the heart to point out a rare, endangered North Atlantic right whale while Derek played Angry Birds on his iPhone.
