WATERWAYS
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- Boating Waters
- Boating in Maryland
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University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
Skipjack H. M. Krentz on Miles River, St. Michaels, Maryland, February 2005. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.
![[photo, City skyline with marinas on Patapsco River (from Canton), Baltimore, Maryland]](/msa/mdmanual/36loc/bcity/images/5458-7-035b.jpg)
Maryland is defined as much by its waterways as by the geographic boundaries of its land. Most important is the Chesapeake Bay around which land joins into the Eastern Shore and Western Shore of Maryland. The extensive coastline that edges the Atlantic Ocean and the Chesapeake Bay is riddled with rivers, bays, and creeks that merge with other Bay tributaries.
City skyline with marinas on Patapsco River (from Canton), Baltimore, Maryland, May 2002. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.
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