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.

BALTIMORE (WJZ) -- A National Marine Sanctuary would be a first for Maryland and the Chesapeake Bay. The ghost fleet of Mallows Bay are now a big step closer to that designation. Mallows Bay sits in a ...

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 ...

CHARLES COUNTY, Md. (ABC7) — The shapes emerge at low tide. They are more than 100 sunken World War I era steamships, the ghost fleet of Mallows Bay, on the Potomac just 40 miles from DC. The outlines ...

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 ...

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 ...

The sign welcoming visitors to Mallow Run Winery in Bargersville on Aug. 20, with the vineyards and the tasting room in the background. The winery has become one of Johnson County’s most popular ...

Driving by Luten Avenue along Hylan Boulevard at this time of the year brings back memories of my childhood when I view the wetlands full of the pink and white flowers of the swamp mallow plant. In ...