Camping on Montauk's outer beaches
Photo credit: Newsday / Mark Harrington | Billy Lomnicki, president of the L.I. Beach Buggy Association, organizes outings and beach- maintenance trips. (July 14, 2012)
Most summer weekends, Billy Lomnicki drives a one-man caravan of truck, camper and boat from his home in Levittown to the end of one of the last roads on Long Island, in Montauk. There, he fills his water tanks, lets out half the air in his tires, then keeps going as the road turns to sand.
The 67-year-old semiretired auto-parts salesman is one of thousands of area residents who summer on...