Re: help
Its a nice, well composed photograph, and given the subject matter I think it's just fine, including the metering. With the bright sun you're going to lose the details in the backlit shoreline in your initial exposure for sure. Your histogram looks fine. So, let me ask you this, are you shooting RAW or JPEG, and what, if any, post processing are you doing, and what are you expecting from your camera?
I took your photo and did two quick adjustments. The first was simply adjusting the levels in the photo (ctrl/cmd-L in Adobe products) by moving the midpoint slider towards the dark side, which amplifies the sky.
This really makes the sky pop.
After that I adjusted the contrast, brightness and vibrance/saturation...
... which warms the photo up a bit and gives it a bit more "Wow".
These were all very basic adjustments done in Photoshop Elements, and should be available in any decent photo editor, free or otherwise (though the Level adjustments may not be in some). Total work time for each was less than a minute (they are basic adjustments I do to
every photo I take, so they are second nature to me - and will be to you eventually).
I'm not sure if that's what you're going for, or what it is you thought you're "missing" from your camera, but I'd be thrilled with this photo. When you look at Flickr or 500px or some other site with shots that inspire you realize that 99% of them didn't come out of the camera looking like that. Some are closer than others, but everything gets tweaked a little and some a lot. The thing about the DSLR is not that photos come out of the camera better than you point & shoot (though they should), it's that the sensors are so much better that the light information you have will allow you to fine tune the image more precisely to what you saw the moment you took it - provided, of course, that you exposed it properly.
If you don't have a good, basic editor then get one. There are good free ones, and some terrific ones that can be had for not a lot of money. From there, learn how to use it - no matter which there are likely many YouTube tutorials.
You've got a great camera, and from what I can see here a good eye. You just have to "finish" the shot.