The music teacher standing on the pier looked smaller and smaller until he became a mere speck.
There are shops open down on the pier which normally at this time of year would be closed.
The auction was held on the pier at Cleethorpes' North Promenade.
He added that despite the need for revenue, his firm had removed the charge for walking on the pier because he "didn't think it was right".
As the sun set, the boats creaked and wailed along the docks and on the pier, everyone sipped pina coladas and danced, once again, to live salsa music.
It is the first time the event has been held on the listed pier, parts of which date back 90 years.
Demolition and rebuilding has begun on the Casino Pier's lower deck, which should be open this summer, said Lou Cirigliano, director of operations for Casino Pier and Breakwater Beach, the structure's private owner.
The blaze on Hastings Pier, in the early hours of 5 October, took four days to put out and destroyed 95% of the upper part of the structure.
Conservative-run Tendring District Council asked consultants Mott MacDonald for options on protecting the Clacton Pier to Holland Haven stretch.
The speedboat from the Kuala Besut ferry pier rides high on the waves, skipping along the water like a flat stone flung by a petulant giant.
The race finished on Liverpool's Pier Head, in the shadow of the Three Graces.
With the decline of industry after World War II, Dogpatch, located on the eastern waterfront near Pier 70, fell into disrepair.
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There are free firework displays from the pier on summer evenings.
The dancers are the godmothers for Norwegian Cruise Line's new ship, Norwegian Breakaway, which is being christened Wednesday afternoon at a pier on the Hudson River.
On Southend Pier, the world's longest, which ends after 1.34 miles in water so deep that flounder, mackerel, cod and plaice can be caught in it, a grey August day finds knots of anglers at every shelter.
Reached by a four-minute ferry ride from Cunnamore Pier on the mainland near Skibbereen, the quaint, whitewashed building is one of the many traditional-style cottages that still outnumber the bungalows blighting much of the Irish countryside.
Madison Square Garden, home to the Knicks, the Rangers and the WNBA's Liberty as well as a venue for concerts and other events, would be moved due west to a pier on the Hudson River under the H3 Hardy plan.
Choose from villas on the beach or jutting off a long pier over the turquoise lagoon at this 44-acre Bora Bora resort (both types have butlers).
The council also voted to close Southend Pier on Mondays and Tuesdays over the winter months, review its senior management structure and close Queensway House, home to the South Essex Partnership Trust's mental health and rehabilitation centre.
The trust had hoped to start restoration work on pier's south landing stage within the next few weeks.
Tree branches bending down to the water hide the turn of the river on both sides, and what you see is a lake with wooded hills, a few little houses on the far shore, a pier with a tiny man fishing.
CalMac said repairs were progressing well on the Isle of Lewis, which has been tied up alongside the pier at Ullapool.
Petersburg as early as November 7 for a public display on November 10 and 11, the Pier's general manager, Carol Everson, said Monday.
Its working harbour sees trawlers returning from fishing trips on a daily basis and the West Pier is lined with fishmongers and seafood restaurants like the Oar House.
Brighton West's remains may be incorporated into a gigantic viewing tower, the i360, in which people will rise in the air, on a vertical pier, rather than walk on water.
Mr Sedgwick, who proposed to his wife on North Pier and promised to buy it for her, said the pier had "fetched a lot of pleasure to a lot of people".
Activities also occurred on the Sunday with a lunch, a Ladies Day Out at the Marina Pier in Great Yarmouth and even a pride dog walk.
The centre-left candidate, Pier Luigi Bersani, said in Milan on Sunday night that the country was facing ruin whilst Mr Berlusconi was preoccupied with Ruby - the young woman he is accused of paying as an under-aged prostitute.
Lauderdale in the late 1970s, Ellis would sit on the dock at the Marriott and gaze wistfully across at the luxury marina, Pier 66.
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