Kisite Mpunguti Park Tour
Kisite Mpunguti Marine Park Reserve Safari 2024/2025
Kisite-Mpunguti Marine National Park 2024
Introduction:
Unspoiled, beautiful and sun kissed, the Kisite Marine Park was established to protect the scenic islands and special habitats.
It hosts a wide range of endemic marine animals and breeding migratory birds.
It lies in the coral gardens south of Wasini Island and encompasses three small coral rag forest islands, each with considerable areas of fringing reef.
Kisite is one of the most rewarding snorkeling locations at the Kenya coast. Visitors can also enjoy bird watching, diving and sunbathing.
The Kenyan Barrier Reef:
The most outstanding feature of the Kenyan Coast, the pristine and well-developed coral barrier reef.
The reef extends all the way from Shimoni in the South to Malindi in the North, without significant break, expect at the mouth of the rivers.
The coral reefs referred to as the rainforests of the sea, are one of the most fascinating ecosystems on earth, sheltering nearly one million types of marine life.
Kisite Mpunguti Marine National Park is “home of the dolphins”.
The park covers an area of 28sq km and it is the most magnificent of all Kenyan marine parks.
With the mean annual temperatures ranging from 22-34 degrees celsius.
Rainfall is around 500mm per annum and the altitude is 5 metres above sea level. The Park is open all year round.
Key features:
It offers about 250 recorded fish species, 70 resident dolphins and over 140 catalogued individuals, sea turtles, whales, 56 genera of corals, sea grass and gastropods.
Many seabirds in large nesting colonies and internationally significant numbers of roseate terns and crab-plovers.
Snorkeling is good throughout the year. However, the sea gets rough between April and July during South East monsoon winds.
It is advisable to visit the park as from 0800hrs.
The Park is located at Kwale County on the Kenya Coast. The Marine Park lies 11 kms off the Kenyan Coast at and 8 kms north of the Tanzanian boarder and can only be reached by boat.
Home of the Dolphins Kenya Day Trip
Enchanted Underwater Kingdom
An enchanted realm of living coral gardens, sculpted islands, wheeling seabirds and sparklingly clear waters, this world-famous Marine Park promises an underwater world of unbelievable color and vibrancy.
The reef provides food and shelter for an entire marine community. A shifting rainbow of small fish, octopus and clams hide in the gaps between the rainbow coral; celestial-blue parrotfish use their hard beaks to chew off lumps of coral while a kaleidoscope of soup plate sized snappers, rubber fish, Sergent major fish, butterfly fish, angel fish and scorpion fish shimmer in the sunlight of the clear waters.
Hunting rays, turtles, 1-meter-long reef sharks and starfish also prowl the reef in search of prey while moray eels hide in here.
The under-water of the marine park is of unbelievable color and vibrance. The marine is home to a rainbow of small fish, octopus and clams. Celestial- blue parrotfish use their hard beaks to chew off lumps of coral. Snappers, rubber-fish, butterfly, angel fish and scorpion fish shimmer in the sunlight of the clear waters.
Things to do and observe
Snorkeling and Diving
Unspoiled, beautiful and sun kissed, the Kisite Marine Park was established to protect the scenic islands and special habitats of a wide range of endemic marine animals and breeding migratory birds.
It lies in the coral gardens south of Wasini Island and encompasses three small coral rag forest islands, each with considerable areas of fringing reef. Kisite is one of the most rewarding snorkeling locations at the Kenya coast. Visitors can also enjoy bird watching, diving and sunbathing.
Home of the Dolphins
Unspoiled, beautiful and sun kissed, the Kisite Marine Park was established to protect the scenic islands and special habitats of a wide range of endemic marine animals and breeding migratory birds.
It lies in the coral gardens south of Wasini Island and encompasses three small coral rag forest islands, each with considerable areas of fringing reef. Kisite is one of the most rewarding snorkeling locations at the coast. Visitors can also enjoy bird watching, diving and of course, sunbathing.
The unspoiled, beautiful and sun kissed park lies in the coral gardens south of Wasini island and encompasses four small coral rag forest islands.
The surrounding waters have well developed coral gardens and a large variety of fish.
Conclusion:
A worthwhile visit and very enjoyable.