Why is a house floating across the San Francisco Bay?

Amy Larson
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SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — A two-story house has been floating on the San Francisco Bay for at least three days.

Crowds gathered were gathering along the waterfront at San Francisco’s Exploratorium to watch a rare solar eclipse on Monday when another unusual sight appeared: a big wooden house in the middle of the bay. The buoyant home navigated its way around Alcatraz Island with help from a slow tow boat.

KRON4 Reporter Charles Clifford tracked the house down on Tuesday and confirmed it is now anchored in Richardson Bay offshore from Sausalito. U.S. Coast Guard officials said the house is able to float because it’s on a barge.

The house boat began its voyage somewhere south of the San Francisco Bay, the Coast Guard confirmed. It’s unclear who owns the home, how long it will remained anchored on the bay, nor where its final destination will be.

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