Editing Walrus Cove

{{image|more=yes|Both N64 & DS versions}}
{{DKR course infobox
|image = [[File:DKR-WalrusCove.png|225px]]
|location = [[Snowflake Mountain]]
|balloons = 3 (race)<br>11 (challenge)
|transportation = [[Car]] (default)<br> [[Hovercraft]]
|meet_tt = 2:10.00
|beat_tt = 2:06.28
|notes = A looping ice slide is present near the start of the level.
|map = [[File:DKR Map Walrus Cove.png]]<br>N64<br>[[File:DKRDS Icon Walrus Cove.png]]<br>DS
|before = [[Everfrost Peak|<<]]
|after = [[Snowball Valley|>>]]
}}

[[File:Walrus Cove.png|thumb|left]]
'''Walrus Cove''' is the second race course of the [[Snowflake Mountain]] area of [[Timber's Island]], the sixth main race track, and the seventh overall track in the games ''[[Diddy Kong Racing]]'' and its remake, ''[[Diddy Kong Racing DS]]''. Despite its name, no walruses appear in Walrus Cove. Three [[Golden Balloon]]s are needed to open this course, and then eleven for the [[Silver Coin Challenge]] (or Balloon Touch Challenge in the [[Nintendo DS]] remake). This is also the first racetrack to have at least one loop.

The cove has a massive ice slide which bends upwards. [[Dash Panel|Zipper]]s at the foot of the slide allow the players to traverse it. The official ''Diddy Kong Racing'' website suggested racing as Conker on this track.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/19990420011329/http://www.dkr.com/walruscove.html ''Diddy Kong Racing'' website (Walrus Cove)]</ref>

The standard vehicle for this course is the [[car]], but the [[hovercraft]] becomes available either during [[Time Trial]]s or after this course is completed. In the [[Nintendo DS]] version, the water near the end of the track acts as normal water. In the original version, it bounces the player's car until they reach land; the water does not affect hovercrafts.{{br|left}}

==Layout==
The track starts with the racers immediately going into a cave with colorful lanterns that evoke winter holiday lights before going onto an icy loop-the-loop. After this part of the track, the racers go upwards in a spiral up out of the cave that has more lanterns inside, before going over an icy straight with some [[Dash Panel#Diddy Kong Racing / Diddy Kong Racing DS|Zippers]] that leads back into a cave following a left-hand turn. The racers then exit the cave and spiral down a snowy path, before entering the final section, which is made up of icebergs and the water between them, before getting back to the start line. On a branching path in the iceberg section, if the player goes on the left path they can get a [[Weapon Balloon|Rainbow Balloon]]. In the DS remake, the abyss is filled with water.

==Silver Coin locations==
===Adventure mode===
*Just before the loop-the-loop section.
*After the loop-the-loop section, near a cave wall just as it begins spiraling upwards.
*Right next to a wooden fence on the left, just after the corner leading to the second cave.
*Near the exit of the second cave, close to a cave wall on the right.
*Just after the set of Weapon Balloons as the course spiral down on the snowy path.
*Close to the water, just before the iceberg section.
*Next to a tree on the right of the course in the iceberg section, just before the path splits in two.
*After the rainbow Weapon Balloon on the left-hand path in the iceberg section.

===Adventure Two mode===
*Close to the wall on the right side of the track, just after the entrance of the cave.
*In the middle, at the end of the loop-the-loop section.
*On the left side of the track, after some [[Banana]]s.
*On the left side of the track, after entering the second cave.
*In the middle of the shortcut, after exiting the second cave.
*Right next to a tree, near the water.
*On the right side of the track, before it splits into branching paths.
*Not long after a tree on the left branching path, near the water.

==Gallery==
<gallery>
DKRDS map small Walrus Cove.png|''[[Diddy Kong Racing DS]]'' map (zoomed out)
</gallery>

==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jpn=スノーコースター
|JpnR=Sunō Kōsutā
|JpnM=Snow Coaster
|Spa=Cueva de la Morsa
|SpaM=Walrus Cave
|Fre=Baie du Morse
|FreM=Walrus Bay
|Ger=Walrossbucht
|GerN=''Diddy Kong Racing''
|GerM=Walrus Bay
|Ger2=Walrosshaff
|Ger2N=''Diddy Kong Racing DS''
|Ger2M=Walrus Lagoon
|Ita=Baia del Tricheco
|ItaM=Walrus Bay
}}

==Trivia==
*The music for this course bears a close resemblance to the Christmas songs "{{wp|Winter Wonderland}}" and "{{wp|Here Comes Santa Claus}}".<ref>https://www.whosampled.com/David-Wise/Walrus-Cove/</ref> The background in parts of the song also has parts of "[[wikipedia:Jingle Bells|Jingle Bells]]", but varied in pitch.

==References==
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{{DKR}}
[[Category:Snowscapes]]
[[Category:Diddy Kong Racing race courses]]