It was a moving day that turned heads around the province.
On Monday images began surfacing on social media of a family in McIvers on the West Coast moving their entire house across the Bay of Islands to another part of the community.
For many, the images were akin to pictures commonly associated with controversial resettlement programs implemented in the 50s, 60s, and 70s. However, for Daniele Penney floating her newly-bought house across the bay turned out to be a perfect solution.
She says she always loved the house, and when the opportunity came up to buy it, she and her boyfriend took it, opting to float the home across the bay to their land.
It was quite the task to get it in the water. Penney explains that her father helped by strapping about 30 drums to the underside of the structure to keep it afloat, then a team of about 15 people in boats helped pull it across the water.
Penney says watching the house float across was a “nail biting” experience.
She says she couldn’t watch at times. She thought the house was gone at one point, then her boyfriend’s dory broke down, but the team pulled together and the house made it.