After you defeat Slime Eye in the Key Cavern, you are told to seek the next key in the Yarna Desert.

Get a Secret Seashell

From Key Cavern, go east, then go north up the stairs and then go west. If you didn't dig with the shovel in the middle of the diamond of bushes, do so now to get a Secret Seashell.

Then go west off of the ledge, and go west again, where there is a phone booth. Use the Pegasus Boots to dash into the tree to the right of the phone booth to make a Secret Seashell come out.

Then go north, lift a rock, and go west to Mabe Village.

Get the Ocarina

Now that you have the Pegasus Boots, you can get the Ocarina. Go back to Mabe Village and go to the stone building north of the shop. Lift a rock to go in. This is the Dream Shrine. Get into the bed.

Dream Shrine

Go to the left and use the Pegasus Boots to kill the Arm-Mimics along the way. At the end, go north to find a chest that contains 100 rupees (if you didn't get it earlier). Then go south and use the Pegasus Boots to dash through the crystal to the left, then go north from there to get the Ocarina. Then go southwest to exit the Dream Shrine.

Learn the Ballad of the Wind Fish

There are a few songs that you can learn after you get the Ocarina. You can learn one of them here in Mabe Village. Go to the Weathervane north of Marin and Tarin's house, and talk to Marin to learn the Ballad of the Wind Fish.

Get the Color Dungeon Clue

With the Pegasus Boots, if you are playing the Nintendo Switch version or Link's Awakening DX, you can go to the Mabe Village Library and dash into the bookshelf at the top to make the book fall. This gives you a clue to reaching the Color Dungeon.

Get a Piece of Heart

Go east from the village to reach an area with holes in the ground. Go north from there and enter the cave. Use the Pegasus Boots to dash through the crystals. Then follow the path until you see the treasure chest again. Dash through the crystal above the chest, then push the bottom rock to the left so you can reach the chest. Open it to get 50 rupees.

To leave the cave, go northwest and follow the path until you reach the exit.

Reach the Desert

Go east from the cave and you will see a tree with a big beehive on it. If you go there now, you find Tarin standing in front of it. Talk to him and let him borrow the stick. Then when the honeycomb falls, take it.

Go south from there and use a bomb to blow up the large skull, take the Secret Seashell that appears, then go east. Go south from Kanalet Castle, then when you reach an area with round rocks, go east to where there is a sign that mentions Animal Village and Martha's Bay. Cut the bush that is east of the sign (if you didn't cut it earlier), and go down the stairs. In the underground area, get past the Piranhas and then use the Pegasus Boots to dash through the crystals in the eastern area. Afterward, go up the stairs.

Go south until you reach a sign that says to go east to the Animal Village. Go east to get to the village.

Go into the southeast house and talk to the bear. Give him the honeycomb to get a pineapple. (If you don't have the Honeycomb, check the Trading Sequence page to find out how to get it.) Then the bear will tell you to go get Marin, who can wake up the walrus who is blocking the path to Yarna Desert.

Go outside and go south from the bear's house to find another warp point. Use it to get closer to Mabe Village.

In the Game Boy version, if you go to the weather vane back in Mabe Village, the boy there says that Marin is at the beach. In both versions, you can go into Marin and Tarin's house and read the letter on the table to find out that Marin went to the beach.

In the Nintendo Switch version, in the southwest part of the beach, go south from the sign to the second of the two trees, and use the Pegasus Boots to dash into it and get a Secret Seashell.

Go east from Sale's house (the crocodile who gave you the bananas earlier in the trading sequence) and continue going east past the monkey in the tree to find a treasure chest behind boulders. Lift the boulders and open the chest to get 50 rupees.

Then go south from that treasure chest to find Marin. Talk to her, and agree to stay. When she asks if you're listening, say yes.

Afterward, Marin follows you.

Get Another Secret Seashell

In the Nintendo Switch version, west of the log where you sat with Marin, dig in the sand to find a Secret Seashell.

Spend Time with Marin

Marin will have some extra dialogue if you do certain things while she is following you:

• Talk to kids in Mabe Village.
• Play the Trendy Game.
• Fall into the well north of the Mabe Village Library. (In the Game Boy version, this also adds a photo your album.)
• Throw a jar at Marin.
• Check on dressers in people's houses.
• Dig with the shovel.
• Hit a cucco (there is more dialogue for hitting it multiple times).
• Play the ocarina.
• Go into a dungeon.
• Leave a dungeon (there is more dialogue if your hearts are low when you leave the dungeon).

Photos With Marin

In the Game Boy version, go to the southwest part of the beach and walk to the end of the cliff there to get a photo with Marin there.

In the Game Boy version, as mentioned in the previous section, fall into the well north of the Mabe Village Library to get another photo.

In the Game Boy version, walk up to the Weathervane in Mabe Village while Marin is following you, to get another photo.

Wake the Walrus

Go back to the Animal Village and go south via the southwest exit from it to reach the walrus. In the Nintendo Switch version, there is a Piece of Heart you can get by going north from the walrus, then going counterclockwise around Animal Village.

Walk up to the walrus and say Yes. Marin will wake him up. After Marin leaves, if you walk up to the water and use the Ocarina to play the Ballad of the Wind Fish, and the walrus will appear in the water. In the Nintendo Switch version, he give you a Secret Seashell.

Go east into the desert.

Get the Key

In the northeast of the desert, you will find a bird statue and a cave. In the Nintendo Switch version, use the shovel to dig in the sand in front of the Owl Statue to find a Secret Seashell.

Go west from that area to find an area of quicksand. Lanmola attacks. Hit its head when it emerges from the sand. If you get stuck in the middle of the quicksand, you will fall into a cave. If this happens, exit the cave and go west to fight Lanmola again.

After you defeat Lanmola, you get the Angler's Key.

Before you leave the quicksand area, let the quicksand pull you underground. Put a bomb against the upper wall, slightly left of the middle, to open a hole. Go through to get a Piece of Heart.

Exit the cave and use the southeast exit. Follow the path to reach some boulders at the end of a cliff. Pick them up to find a Secret Seashell.

When you leave the desert, the Owl tells you to go to the waterfall in Tal Tal Heights and fall from above to reach the dungeon.

Unlock the Next Dungeon

To unlock the next dungeon, go east from the Bottle Grotto entrance in Goponga Swamp. In the area with two Pig Warriors and some rocks around a sign, lift all of the rocks (in the Nintendo Switch version, one of them has a Secret Seashell underneath if you didn't get it before) and go north of where the boulders were, then go east. You will find the keyhole. In the Game Boy version, push on the keyhole to open the dungeon. In the Nintendo Switch version, check on the keyhole to open the dungeon. However, to get there, you have to climb the mountain.

There is a warp point east of the keyhole. In the Game Boy version, be sure to go and look at it to add it to the sequence of warp points. In the Nintendo Switch version, be sure to go and stand on it to activate it.

In the Nintendo Switch version, throw a bomb into the hole to the right of the warp point to get a Secret Seashell.

Reach the Next Dungeon

Go west from the keyhole until you reach some stairs going up the mountain. Go up those stairs. Lift a rock to enter the cave. Go to the east side of the cave and push the first rock upward into the hole, then hit the northern crystal with your sword. In the Game Boy version, there is a rock that was next to the crystal that you just broke. Push that rock to the right, then push the one below you down. Go down the stairs. In the Nintendo Switch version, there is a rock that was below the crystal that you just broke. Push that rock down, then go down the stairs.

In the Nintendo Switch version, go back up the stairs. Push the rock below you down, then push the one to the left of you left. Break the crystal, then pick up the Piece of Heart. Then go back down the stairs.

Go through this cave, being careful to avoid the green Zols hiding in the floor. Go up the stairs at the end, then go east. You can go through the first door to find a chest that contains rupees if you didn't get them already. Then go back into the cave and use the Pegasus Boots to dash through the crystals to the east. At the next door, go outside.

Go east, then walk east in the shallow water to reach a cave. Go into the cave. Go through the cave, avoiding the green Zols that are hiding in the floor. Go up the stairs in the second room. Ignore the chest up above, because it contains a green Zol. Go south until you're outside. Go southwest to find Papahl. Talk to him say Yes to give him the pineapple.

When you give Papahl the pineapple, he gives you a Hibiscus. Later you can go to the Animal Village and give the Hibiscus to the goat who is writing a letter. Then take the letter to Mr. Write, who is north of the Mysterious Forest. He gives you a broom. Give the broom to the old lady in front of Ulrira's house. She gives you a fish hook.

After rescuing Papahl, go north and then jump down the ledge. Walk east through the shallow water. If you used the Angler's Key on the keyhole, you will find an area where there is no water, and there is a place where you can jump down. So jump down. You will land in front of the dungeon entrance. There are stairs here that will allow you to go back to the area where you used the key, but it's a one-way shortcut, so if you want to go back to the dungeon after using the one-way shortcut, you would have to climb the mountain again.

When you're ready, go into the dungeon entrance. It's Angler's Tunnel.