Kabli is essentially a beach village with a serious birdwatching reputation. The long sandy beach runs for several kilometres along Pärnu Bay; the Kabli Bird Station and observation tower draws ornithologists from across northern Europe twice a year during the spring and autumn migrations; the small Kabli Nature Reserve preserves a stretch of meadow and coastal pine forest. The village itself has a tiny ethnographic museum in an old captain's house — a holdover from the era when Kabli was a serious shipbuilding centre.