Bill Stanley, a vice-president of the construction company that owns the quarry, told me, "We make a customized, proprietary blend of horse-footing sand, and we're sending it all over New York State and out to the Rocky Mountains.
A large barn has eight modular stables, two adjacent paddocks and a 130-by-65-foot sand arena.
The house is on the Sound, on top of a 150-foot sand cliff, in a little town called Baiting Hollow.
And so he mated this old-fashioned skeleton to modern mitochondria: a solar space-heating system, with a two-and-a-half-foot sand bed that stores warmth beneath the floor.
OFFERS OF AT LEAST $2.5 MILLION This three-bedroom beach house is nestled in a rain forest, sheltered from the Pacific Ocean by a 30-foot sand dune at Tallow Beach in eastern Australia.
When racing over two-foot sand drifts covering gravel, the vehicle would drift in a squirrelly fashion, yet the tire spin wasn't felt through the pedals.
They're smaller than their savanna siblings and with longer legs and wider feet (sand snowshoes), all evolved for surviving in the desert.
Leaving Fallon, the highway passes by ancient petroglyph sites at Grimes Point and then Sand Mountain, a 600 feet sand dune.
Two 8-foot sand sharks were caught about 100 feet off Atlantique beach after the beaches were reopened, said Islip Town Supervisor Angie Carpenter at the press conference.
We had then been scrambling up 300-foot sand dunes with a quicksand river at their base, sliding down on pink plastic discs not much bigger than Frisbees.
In anticipation, Huntington Beach marine-safety officials will build a 5-by-20-foot sand berm in front of properties next to the beach that are susceptible to unusually high tides known as "king tides".
