This cache is the 11th in an 11-cache walking series placed over a 1.1 mile stretch located between Blue Course Drive and the Penn State Blue Golf Course. The series is designed to be family friendly with easy to find hides placed near an established path or paved walk. Each cache is named after a song with the word "blue" in it. If you happen to be feeling blue, may the walk lift your spirits.
Much of the path goes through gentle woods of maple and oak trees but some sections are in full sun (when the sun shines). From parts of the path you can see Mount Nittany.
Most of the caches have logs that are micros set within small or medium containers for waterproofing and easier finding. I've listed most of the sizes as micros since most don't have room for trade items. Please take your own pen or pencil. The hint below is a giveaway.
"Over the Rainbow" is a classic Academy Award-winning ballad song. It was written for the 1939 movie, The Wizard of Oz, and was sung by actress Judy Garland. The song is number one of the "Songs of the Century" list compiled by the Recording Industry Association of America and the National Endowment for the Arts. The American Film Institute also ranked "Over the Rainbow" the greatest movie song of all time on the list of "AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs". It was adopted (along with Irving Berlin's "White Christmas") by American troops in Europe in World War II as a symbol of the United States—in fact, Garland even performed the song for American troops as part of a 1943 command performance.
You're looking for a micro nestled in a small container about five feet high on the right rear side of an evergreen tree as you face away from Blue Course Drive. No bluebird there--it must have flown the nest.
Enjoy your walk.
(Though my husband, JBT, knows nothing about this cache, I have asked him to be disqualified from the FTF lest anyone think he had advance knowledge.)
Congratulations to Stevensons a Searchin, mattressgnome and RICK+REESII Dog for the FTF!