I never knew kayaking could be so much fun until I tried it. Now I’m hooked and am looking forward to my next excursion, thanks to my enjoyable experience learning about an important era in history ...

Charles County officials joined tourism industry executives on a kayak tour of Mallows Bay last week to help drum up awareness of the bay as a tourist destination and to update them on the ongoing ...

Historians discovered that earlier references to Mallows Bay called it “Marlow’s Bay.” It was erroneously spelled Mallows when the War Department issued the orders to beach and burn the surplus ships ...

From the kayak I was in, I looked over toward the wreck of the Benzonia, a 1919 World War I steamship, whose wooden bow rises several feet out of the water at low tide. WAMU Visuals Editor Tyrone ...

Kayakers make their way through the 18-square-mile Mallows Bay-Potomac River National Marine Sanctuary. Hydrilla, an invasive aquatic plant that abounds in late summer, gives paddlers a workout.

Mallows Bay in Charles County has been declared a National Marine Sanctuary. DroneTrak7 captured just a few of the more than 100 World War II-era ships sunk in Mallows Bay after the war. Now, the ...

Perhaps Mallows Bay is a frozen cove on the coast of Alaska. Maybe it’s in Scotland or Ireland. Actually, it is in Maryland and not on the Chesapeake. It is on the Potomac River, about 30 miles ...

In a quiet inlet halfway down the Potomac River, Don Shomette pushes off a muddy landing in his weather-beaten canoe. It's a trip he's made thousands of times but as he rounds the corner upon scores ...

Peter Turcik still remembers the shot. Leaning forward in his kayak, holding his camera still, he snapped a vertical picture of the sunken ship, with the setting sun as its glistening background. “I ...