Excellent composition Tom!
Love the interplay of light and shadows on the sand. The pathway locks in your foreground and displays the scale, depth and emotion of "the beach". The berms protecting the beach, the "noise"...I am waiting for the Wright Bros to "fly by"!
Douglas & Dan: Thanks to both of you for commenting.
The white object is a piece of plastic caught on the thorns of a bush; it was visible in the viewfinder when I made the image. My style is to capture a scene as it is, very, very rarely changing anything in post-production. WYSIWYG! Tom.