The Salty Southeast Cruisers’ Net sincerely thanks Captain Mary Dixon for bringing her very useful list of dinghy accessible grocery stores along the Western Florida coastline, to our attention. Of course, we also list “Provision Possibilities” in all our marina directories as well.

I created a blog for SW FL of grocery stores that you can dinghy to since that is where we cruise most of time.
http://dinghytogrocerystorewestfl.blogspot.com/
Mary Dixon

I sent this e-mail to Mary with some additional locations:

Mary,
Great blog, should be of great help to cruisers. We also cruise the west coast (and the east coast and Keys). We are full-time cruisers on a 27 foot sailboat, almost 6 years now. We have used every one of the supermarkets you list. 🙂
There are a few more you might want to add. You can use Google maps to find these:

Belair Bluffs (Clearwater area): anchor off the boat ramp, dinghy to ramp. Walk 0.6 miles up the hill to Publix

Treasure Island: go in towards Blind Pass from ICW and then north into the canal across from Blind Pass Marina (stay close to port shore for deep water) and you can anchor and dinghy to Publix (YES, Publix has their own dock!) Nice, very protected anchorages up in here! You can anchor in the last most northerly cove for a totally enclosed storm anchorage.

Lemon Bay/Englewood: anchor in 6 feet south of the park and north of Tom Adams Bridge. You leave the ICW and go east towards shore midway between markers 25 and 26. Dinghy to park on east shore north of anchorage. A one mile walk to a Publix.

And, of course, in Factory Bay on Marco Island you can pay $5 and use the marina dinghy dock and walk less than a mile to Publix and West Marine. This year we finally went into Smokehouse Bay which was very convenient and very nice!
Hope that is useful info.
Larry Sherman
s/v Enchantress