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 ...

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.

A bonus of the Mallows Bay trip for Benjamin who is a self-described "history buff" was getting to literally paddle through history.<P> One ship remains partially above water and during the previous ...

The Mallows Bay–Potomac River National Marine Sanctuary in Charles County offers visitors a place to hike, bird watch and kayak around the historic “Ghost Fleet” of ships on the Potomac River.

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 ...

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 ...