palm-fringed beaches caster-sugar sand and translucent cornflower blue sea Even at low tide, the water is deep enough for swimming and snorkelling, with shallow pools elsewhere for wading and paddling. Beneath the sea’s placid surface, an inner universe of strange rock formations, swaying weeds, and sculptured corals are dazzlingly lit by shoals of angel, jewel, zebra and parrot fish. Chale Marine Park offers a perfect place to explore the underworld for divers and snorkellers Chale Island offers sulphur-rich muddy swamps that are believed to appease and heal a wide array of skin ailments it is home to Colobus monkeys and baboons that budge in groups from and to the island during low tide wildlife resident on the island are elephant shrew, bush squirrel, turtles, the bushy-tailed mongoose, bush pig, and suni antelope.