It has been a conversation piece for years on Little Gasparilla Island: the "pink house," the one that sat so far out on the beach that people on the balcony could fish from it and get splashed by ...

ELLIOTT: Day, an IT consultant and father to three teenage boys, built his house on little Gasparilla Island in 2004, and it survived Hurricane Charley. He says he wasn't prepared for Ian's ...

Burt and Sandy Perry of Fort Meade, along with Sandy Perry's daughter, Kimberly Tompkins, 22, and her boyfriend, Clint Jowers, 24, of Kathleen, had gone to Little Gasparilla on Friday night.