There are still very few birds around on the beach: a white-faced heron, some black-backed gulls, a pied stilt or two and a handful of oystercatchers. I could hear a skylark.

It was a very low tide and there were islands of driftwood 'mulch'. And this luminous orange shell.

Driftwood mulch at dawn at low tide.
Driftwood mulch closeup.
Shell on the beach at dawn.