What is "sandy level"

Usage examples of "sandy level".

They had gone about halfway across the white, sandy level between the hill and the hummock behind which Tom Chist lay, when the white man stopped and bent over as though to tie his shoe.

Cadfael nudged his mule out through the crest of trees, and started down the long slope of the track to meet them, as the ferryman brought his raft sliding smoothly in to the sandy level below.

I retain an impression still of the total panic in my mind, as my body ran back across the sandy level to the noxious sea-scudded rocks.