COUER D'ALENE--People on Lake Coeur d'Alene were treated to a strange sight today--a huge cabin, split in two, floating across the water.

Brett Allbery, KREM.com

One of two pieces of a 1932 log cabin sold to Kootenai County Sheriff Rocky Watson from Duane Hagadone floats across Lake Coeur d'Alene to its new home on Watson's property on Cougar Bay.

Wealthy Coeur d'Alene businessman Duane Hagadone sold his 1932 log cabin to Kootenai County Sheriff Rocky Watson, but Watson wants it on his property along Cougar Bay.

Watson found out the best way to move the entire cabin was to cut it in two pieces and float it from Hagadone's property on Casco Bay to Watson's property on Cougar Bay.

The entire cabin is 6,000 square feet.

The biggest piece, about 4,000 square feet, floated first on Thursday morning. The smaller piece started floating later in the afternoon.

Both pieces will remain floating in the water just off of Watson's lakefront for about one week while the movers wait for lake levels to rise high enough to make the sliding of the cabins onto land easier.

Watson told KREM 2 NEWS today the entire moving operation is costing him $140,000. One company is being paid to float the pieces and another company will slide the cabin pieces off of the barge onto Watson's land.

Duane Hagadone and Rocky Watson have been friends for many years and Watson had attended fundraisers at the cabin so he was familiar with it before he decided to buy it.