Hi Ray 
My initial reaction is “Pleasure”, it’s always nice to see people gathered on the beach enjoying doing their own thing.
It looks like there’s a couple between the trike rider and the small stack on the right taking photos toward you, it’s kind of hard to be sure but that’s what it looks like.
IMHO, the scene is strong even if it didn’t have the stacks in the BG but the stacks are an added bonus in my view.
I do see some hard edges in the sky on both sides of the large stack where the stitching didn’t go well. It appears there was some significant cloud movement between shots.
I also see some slight ghosting of a couple of people on the beach, also from the stitching process where the people had moved between shots.
The line at the horizon was a little wavy, rotating the image would have helped a little but the waviness was the biggest visual distraction, this was probably from the stitching process as well.
But, I think you did really well at capturing the images without a tripod! Nicely done!
It’s almost inevitable that some amount of manual cloning needs to be done since the software has a hard time getting everything to match when something in the scene has moved.
I took a crack at it to see what I could do and it turned out OK I think.
BTW, the edits were all done in Photoshop (Ps).
I used the clone tool with the opacity set at about 30% and the hardness at 0%.
Sky cloning requires resetting the origin many times and often, and using short strokes.
I also ran it through Topaz Denoise at the lowest strength in the standard mode just to make the sky appear a little cleaner, it wasn’t bad, so, noise removal was really just a fine tuning thing.
I also used the rectangular marquee selection tool to provide a level line at the horizon so I could clone it in a straight line.
Cleaning up around areas where there are hard lines isn’t really subjective, in my opinion it’s a must if those can be easily seen.
Very nice image, this shows people having fun and that’s a powerful message IMHO.
Anyway, I hope this helps and please feel free to ask for more details on how the edits were done. You didn’t mention what processing software you use so I didn’t go into very much detail.
Finally, I noticed that this is the first image you’ve posted in a long while, I hope you’ll share your work with us more often!
I know I’d like to see more of your work so don’t be shy
Post whatever you feel comfortable sharing.
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I also tried cropping more off the bottom so the trike rider was headed straight for the LRC of the frame, the crop was mainly to remove some FG that didn’t seem to add much to the scene (and since there is already lots of sand in the FG).
It also makes it into a longer panoramic image. Just a random thought really.
The crop is just something for you to consider, it does work as you have it, the crop idea is just my own personal opinion which is that it brings the people in closer for a more intimate interaction.
